Article vs Blog

Articles & blogs are very similar features. Why choose one over the other?

In general,

blogs: one person sharing their thoughts on a variety of subjects.
Articles:many contributors posting information usually regrouped in topics.

With Tiki blogs, it is possible to restrict read (tiki_p_read_blog) and/or write (tiki_p_blog_post) to different groups whilst in articles, reading can be restricted by topics (tiki_p_topic_read).

Feature	Tiki-Articles	Tiki-Blog
Style	typically 3rd person ("they"	Typically 1st or 2nd person ("I" or "We")
Date of post	publication and expiration date selectable by user	automatic and can not be manually entered.
Trackback	no	yes
Send this article to a friend	no	yes
Comments	comments on individual articles	comments on blog post and/or comments on blog
Spellchecking	yes	yes
QuickTags	yes	yes
Can use wiki syntax	yes	yes
Can use html	yes, if activated	not working for me in Branch-1-9
Data saved in	?wiki format?	?html?
Multilingual	yes	no
Ranking	?	yes

As a note, it is possible to "emulate" the multilingual feature for blogs by using multiple blogs (one per language), and copying, pasting, translating and linking between them, I use something like this for the link code, just replace the number with the corresponding postId of the blog post (you can see it on your browser's URL bar, while seeing the blog post you want to link).

[tiki-view_blog_post.php?postId=2|Language]

The only "issue" is that comments are different on each version, but that could be good, unless you want to mix comments in different languages, which is what I wanted, but this workaround "works".

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