6 Feb
2008
6 Feb
'08
3:49 p.m.
Hi,
I used XWiki for my diploma thesis. I mean, my teacher was checking my
progress in xwiki. I used following schema.
Every chapter was one wiki page. There was one page, where were all links to
chapters. Some sort of main page.
When the chapter is in one page, makes comments is easy. You know the
context, so it clear what you want comment.
What I missed, was the transfer to LaTex. I had to do this manually. But i
think it is better to keep the text in wiki syntax. My point is, you can
convert it to LaTex when you want. Why make it incompatible to rest of
xwiki?
During my work, i realize that will be great to have special tags like first
draw, finished, commented, errors and so on. So you have the summary of your
work. These tags will show on the page next to links.
So i think that xwiki is ready for collaboration on the diploma thesis
right now. One thesis one space. Maybe first page will be special with some
code, but rest of them will be normal xwiki pages. With Latex export and
tags you will have what you need. It is my personal opinion, but that is
what i missed when i used xwiki for diploma thesis.
Jan
On Feb 6, 2008 2:54 PM, Tim Chippington Derrick <
tim(a)chippingtonderrick.co.uk> wrote:
Sounds like a great project. We are a small (2 person)
company working
in mathematical optimisation, and we would like to be able to use XWiki
for requirements capture, logging issues, developing documentation and
similar. We often need to include equations and the like in our
documents. I love LaTeX, but nobody else I know really gets it, so we
end up using (yuk!) MS Word and (ugh!) Sharepoint. Would love to be able
to contribute to the project, but at present the workload is about 6+
days per week due to overlapping projects... so we have *no* time to
spare just now. Maybe later in the year I could help.
Tim
Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
Hi everybody,
On the mailing lists, we noticed several people trying to use XWiki in
academic environments, requesting features such as support for
mathematical equations or support for LaTeX.
We took some time to design a product that would be great for writing
scientific papers, identifying some important features, and some "would
be nice to have" features. You can see the current design proposal at
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/SPAWN (feel free to send
comment on the mailing list).
Given the fact that this is not a product which can easily be sold, and
that there are other more critical projects to work on for the moment,
the core XWiki developers cannot dedicate much time on it. This is why
we need help from the community. Whoever would like to use this product,
and has the power and knowledge to work on in, please help us.
If you are in an university as a student, you can propose one of the
sub-applications as a project for one of your classes. If you are a
teacher, you can propose some sub-applications as student projects. We
can help with coordination, more detailed description/requirements,
question answering, code review, etc.
Some of the features require mostly programming skills, while others
require more advanced research skills, like the positioned comments in a
dynamic text (adapting some sequence alignment algorithms from
bioinformatics seems the best idea for the moment, but also some fuzzy
systems theory could be applied), or an automatic merge algorithm based
on Operational Transformations, so some publications can come out of
this, too.
If we gather a few volunteers, I'll make the necessary Jira setup and
mark the product as active.
Regards,
The XWiki dev team
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