On Nov 26, 2007, at 12:11 AM, Your XEN ICT Team - Ricardo Rodriguez wrote:

Robert Hercz wrote:
Hi,
 
We are trying out XWiki, TWiki, DokuWiki and MediaWiki, to see which will fit best in our organization as a general collaboration and information tool, for both ever changing project work and documentation, and for more static information.
 
One thing I need to find out, is if it is possible to disable the ever-present “Comments” and “Attachment” fields on the bottom of every page. Can they be enabled/disabled on a per page basis, or do they have to be removed globally (if at all possible)?
 
I’d appreciate if other XWiki users can mail me some trips, tricks and traps: What should I look for specifically to experience XWiki’s strengths over the others, and what do I need to be aware of to avoid its pitfalls (if there are any)?
 
Best regards,
Robert Hercz / Teletopia


Hi Robert,

From newbie to newbie :-) 

As for Comments/Attachments, I think you would want to have a look to the "[xwiki-users] Disable and hide comments" thread started by Marie Sauvage on November the 5th.

About strengths: the people, the data model, rights assignment and management, Java in the background and Groovy, Velocity, HTML, Java, JavaScript and almost anything (now or in the future) in the pages. About pitfalls: just consider that this is a 1.2RCx release.

Actually we have 2 versions:
* Stable: XWiki Enterprise 1.1.2
* Experimental: XWiki Enterprise 1.2 Milestone 2

All that is listed above is available in both.

XWiki's strength is the ability to customize it in all aspects, its scalability (as opposed to TWiki which doesn't scale as well AFAIK), the ability to structure data to the point of being able to create either small applications or use xwiki as an application platform for writing full fledged collaborative applications, and in general enterprise features like custom SSO integration, LDAP integration, ability to gather data from external sites easily using powerful macros and Velocity/Groovy scripts in pages.

This reminds me that we probably need a page on xwiki.org entitled "Why choose xwiki".

Thanks
-Vincent
A XWiki developer