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As a Confluence user I have to second that.

For a small team Confluence is an even more "no-brainer" than MediaWiki, etc...

First time I ever heard something positive about confluence. (But I only heard about it, because we use it at work and people like to complain about it.)

FWIW, I don't really like confluence either (I do have an high opinion of other atlassian's products though), it just seems to fit the OP's wanted-list :)

Could you elaborate on what their complaints are?

To me its waaaay better than Sharepoint - which we also used. And it is way more suitable for "non-technical" and "non-wikisavvy" users than e.g. MediaWiki.

I have never used Sharepoint. Fortunately I do not work in a Microsoft shop. (Though we do have to bear Exchange Server.)

One minor misgiving about Confluence is its syntax: Opening and closing tags look the same. So {noformat} both starts and ends its environment. I haven't done anything fancy myself with Confluence, so I can't comment on the other complaints. (And we do use an ancient version, because we have some custom changes, and nobody has found the time to port them to the new version.)

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