[xwiki-users] Feedback to the Xwiki concept.

I want to give feedback to the Xwiki concept. As a radiologist I am searching for a software that do three simple tasks: 1. Storing anonymous radiological images for teaching purpose. 2. Connect facts, notes,articles (text, PDF, PTT and JPG to this images. 3. Using a system to retrieve the information. Why? I often know that I have seen the phenomena/disease before. But I do not remember where I found facts to this phenomena/disease. So why searching for the same disease a second (10th) time? Se: http://dx.doi.org/10.1594/ecr2011/C-2126 Xwiki has a REST interface. I designed a universal image import macro(with autohotkey.net) that grab an image, open a tiny input interface for tags and drop the image and tags the Xwikiserver. Xwiki handle the image workflow quit well. Storing articles (PDF) to this image is working. Tagging and hierarchical connection is working. Lucene is doing the search job. So what is not working? STARTING WITH XWIKI I am not a experienced programmer nor a database freak. Working before with twiki.org and mediawiki.net on PHP. Never working with Java server before. So I started from a USB device with the Xwiki stand alone server on Windows XP. After some weeks I realized that IT IS ONLY FOR TESTING! (Yes it is informed on the page). MIGRATING TO MYSQL Using “MoWeS Portable” freeware for Apache, MySQL, phpMyAdmin. Export from “testing” and import to MySQL is not working for me because of large database and umlauts in page name and attachments. The ImportLargeWiki script is working after manual converting all umlauts and question marks from page name. Se next section. UMLAUTS I am working in Norway with not updated Windows XP and Swedish code pages. Developing at home on a German Ubuntu: In this setting it is not possible to generate a page with page name, page title and attachment name including German or Norwegian umlauts. 1. The page name must not include umlauts or special characters. 2. Page title is safe with umlauts or special characters. 3. Attachment name must not include umlauts or special characters . It is not optimal, but I can (now after intensive testing) live with it. I use a time stamp for file name and for attachment name. IMAGE WORKFLOW My automated import workflow is quit nice, so I used it many times. The upload and search for image dialogue is using the page title and is working god. I still miss the possibility to make a image annotation. (like in Wikipedia) and the link to full size image. Why not have a thumbnail of the image in search result page and AllAttachment page? But the images in the database are blowing up the size of the database. Performance is going down, handling import and export is getting time consuming. ATTACHEMENT WORFLOW Missing a search for “foo bar “ attachment in other pages/spaces. LUCENE SEARCH My search results are giving 10jpgs first and then the parent page. (It is a known bug). Id like to see fragments of the document on the result page. Highlighting the search text is nice. Is it a Xwiki issue or is it easy to realise a show text on the result page? Show me the images as thumbnails and PDF/ppts as icons. How to change the Analyser? Is there a Norwegian text analyser for lucene? (I know it is not a genuine Xwiki issue, but helps to make Xwiki more efficient) EXPORT PDF /PRINT Tables are not printed with border. The image positioning (right-left) seems to get broken in PDFs RELAUNCH Now with Xwiki 3-1.2. On the Norwegian XP with Swedish code page. 1. Plain Xwiki installation with FILE system 2. MySQL via MOWES. Just start MyPhpAdmin to add xwiki database 3. No Login on plain XWIKI!!! 4. Plain 3-1.2 XAR installation. 5. Install script LargeWikiImport from Xwiki.org 6. Export of XAR from the old system with ExportLargeWiki by spaces. 7. Import with LargeWikiImport. USING “do not overwrite” option 8. Give time to the system and lucene search. 9. One problem. All the old pages are “hidden” (browse tables with MyPhpAdmin) 1. Probably because used “backup”- option on import. (Is this right? Correct me if wrong. AND PUT SOME INFO IN THE SCRIPT) 2. In MyPhpAdmin update from hidden=1 to hidden=0 for all pages And now: A fast system with newest software version, working from a USB device on Windows and Linux. But there is a maximum file per directory bounder on Windows systems. FAT16- 512 FAT32- 65,534 files or folders per folder NTFS- 4,294,967,295 Is this correct? MISSING I want to include pages with sections to make a book. The hiracical section including is not working well. Lucene: The search syntax shoot be available inside the wiki. Why is the maximum upload parameter so low? Put it up to 1GB. And make a link to the edit page. Not “se in forum and go back to the Wiki”. It is confusing. How to migrate users? Why not putting all Xwiki system pages in a space. And only the WebHome in Main? On upgrading/migration process you upgrade only (first) space Xwiki. And in a second step you copy all your pages from Main to (empty) Main. Why not using LargeWikiImport and LargeWikiExport as default? I develop and use Xwiki for RadWiki (Radiology Wiki) on a daily base now. It is fun to use it! Thank you for your attention. Volker