We are using discourse very actively as a wiki already and it is very suitable as it is for our needs. We’re primarily using it for maintaining standard operating procedures, documenting learning events and co-writing how-to resources about tools. The incoming and outgoing links, topic summary and category/subcategory organization are awesome for this! Discourse topics give us juuuust the right mix of flexibility and structure to suit our needs.
Features that would be icing on the cake:
- print/download link to allow use of created content offline
- automatic table of contents (gah! I never created this spec topic! on my list again)
I also often think about how nice it would be to be able to create a structured set of pages (like the CiviCRM manual) built from discourse topics, with navigation and printing/exporting options. Something like the faq and privacy policy etc but a configurable set of structured pages. But easiest might be to just create an external, separate tool that grabs the raw content using URLs you give it and spits it out.