Hi, On 26 Nov 2015 at 20:00:54, Anton Hughes ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:
HI all
One of the key concepts of a wiki is its easy for everyone to edit. There are various wiki syntaxs - perhaps the most popular being Mediawiki - and all of them have a goal of making it easy for users to write in the specific syntax, without the need to know html.
So, one of the most basic features of a wiki, CMS, and the web, is linking. In Html a user has to write
- a - href - the user has to know if it is relative or absolute - link text
Its not a lot, but its still too much for non technical people.
In a normal wiki a user just writes [[MyExamplePage]]
[[MyExamplePage]] works in XWiki too :)
This is so simple that anyone can do it!
Why don’t you try it on xwiki?
In XWiki (and I found this out by using the wysiwyg editor) [[MyExamplePage>>doc:MyExamplePage.WebHome]]
What is doc? And WebHome? And >>? And whats with the dots, semi colons?
See http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax BTW XWiki supports several syntaxes, see http://rendering.xwiki.org/
As a technical person I can probably figure this out. But there is no way I could sell my management on this. Non technical people will never understand this. And yes, non-tech people can use the wysiwyg. But then why use a wiki? Why not just use a CMS.
If the only difference you see is the markup then you’re missing a lot :) See http://www.xwiki.com/fr/comparatifs/xwiki-vs-cms for example. Thanks -Vincent
Anton Hughes