I beg to differ, I have been using wikidot forever for all kinds of things. You can set it for static pages, for blogging, for a forum(ish), or for a closed community site. There's plenty help around, check help while in page editing mode, and also the links on your admin area, and formatting is rather easy -- it gets plain HTML and the usual wiki lingo, with a few quirks.
Here's one
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