It is amazing how bad Confluence is, and it still seems like the best choice for an internal wiki. I have been close to building one myself, but for now I have withhold.
its their own strsnge version of markdown though, which just adds to the flame of hatred imo
if you were ever so unfortunate to have perfectly marked up content and previewed in the visual mode, only to save it and loose a ton of formatting (seems in visual mode the actual data source isnt the same as markup) upon save...