Here are some more random features that have occurred to me that would be nice for Confluence Enterprise Wiki to have:

• Set a default page in a space that all new pages without a parent get added to as a child. In other words, default parent for new pages.

• Improved rendering speed of the wiki pages.
  • http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-5494 - Improve page load time when it contains lots of links

    By links, we mean links to other Confluence pages. This is slow at the moment because for each link Confluence needs to hit the database to determine if the link points to an existing page or not. My comment: This is another example why the rendering process needs to be exposed to allow plugins to be inserted in it. What about a page directive that says "Assume all links exist". This could drammatically improve rendering time. I am finding that a page with 1500 children, and containing links to all the children, takes over 3 minutes to render, despite the fact that the wikitext is only about 60K. (Writing the page via API also takes a long time.) Another work around might be to change the links to the other pages into external links back to the wiki. That might avoid the database lookup. Of course you'd loose features like rename, and "what pages link to this page" type features. (That page renders in about 24 seconds if the links are changed to external links. The page can also be written by the API a lot quicker.)

• Slow page view (with example profiling information) - http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-5402
• USC.EDU complains of slow loading - http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-4710