Why do we need Drupal when we already have the UCAR wiki?
A. UCAR’s Confluence-based wiki at wiki.ucar.edu is an excellent tool for project documentation and collaborative authoring. The popularity of the UCAR wiki has demonstrated the benefits of enabling anyone with a web browser to be a content contributor. However, Confluence has weak theming and templating capabilities making it difficult to build polished public-facing websites. While there is overlap between Confluence and Drupal in areas like web-based editing of pages, versioning, a granular permissions model, and community features like tagging and commenting, Drupal provides a much richer ability to manage different kinds of content and display it in a professional, refined manner. It’s best to think of Confluence as our project documentation solution for UCAR staff and close collaborators and Drupal as our solution for building more refined sites for our public audiences.
