Re: [xwiki-devs] Proposal: moving the "create wiki" and "create space" actions

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Eduard Moraru <enygma2002(a)gmail.com> wrote: That would be great, but does the user get the point, this is far from being the case actually. From a user stand point, explaining the difference between a wiki and a space is not easy. I have experiment that again this morning, and I have a very knowledgeable person in front of me. After presenting the structure, the question, "why do we need multiple wikis, since we have spaces ?", followed a few moment later by "Does the search box at the top search into all wikis ?". Because this is an infrequent action with strong consequences in the way you organize your information. From the sysadmin POV, it means a new DB, with potential consequences on its backup and replication procedures. From the user POV, it is not the simple click of a button, after answering curious questions about user access, it goes to the distribution wizard, and, if she persistent, finally reach a new situation, where the she have to understand she is in a subwiki, and that all operation from there, like using the search box (the same search box, from his POV), will be scoped by that subwiki. Frankly, I do not understand this could not be called an "an infrequent action with strong consequences", compare to page creation (and space creation which is basically the same). I have not seen any burying in Guillaume proposal, just a leveling of frequent actions and really less frequent one. That said, I doubt a lot of wiki will have that option available since most admin will limit the create_wiki right to knowledgeable users. And even, if the right is largely open, I doubt a lot of users will be persistent enough to fully finish the still complex process of creating a wiki. For sure, they will not do so very often, and therefore, that option will be in their way all the time for finally very casual usage. This is particularly true since this is the first option in the list. IMO the order of that list should be reversed: Page, Space, Wiki, from smallest to largest, from most frequent to less frequent, which was the order AFAIR in the initial Flamingo proposal. In regards to your CRUD principle, while you are fighting to keep the creation of wiki, why don't you expect to be able to add comments, attachment, object, classes, tags from the same button Add button ? These are frequent actions, that it would be nice to have there, and again was also (partly) in the initial Flamingo proposal. While the same proposal has never mentioned the Wiki in the Add menu. Finally, I am wondering why the proposal on which we agreed has been so much reworked during implementation. -- Denis Gervalle SOFTEC sa - CEO