Re: [xwiki-users] Trying to find a wiki software

Cool cool. Am I able to customize it enough so it looks like an actual website and not a wiki? (Wikipedia style)

- Eric On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Ricardo Rodriguez [eBioTIC.] < ricardo.rodriguez(a)ebiotic.net&gt; wrote: > Hi! > > Eric Tse wrote: >> Hey guys, just subscribed to this list. >> >> I'm currently stuck between two softwares: XWiki and Foswiki. >> >> What I'm looking for is: >> Speed/Performance >> Access control (Guests can only read and not modify, certain users can >> modify) >> Good theming/Easy theming. >> An overall good wiki with user-friendly UI. >> >> Foswiki is flatfile and xwiki is SQL based. I hear that SQL is generally >> better, is that the case? Foswiki seems to be pretty fast even if it is >> flatfile. >> >> Thanks :) >> >> > > XWiki is not only a wiki: it is a complete and powerful Java based > development framework. I arrived here from MediaWiki looking for access > management and I found much, much more than this. I think it is worth > you give it a try! Even more: if after playing for a while in the > sandbox (http://xoffice.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Sandbox/), or asking > and using your own wiki in MyWiki community farm or Netcipia, or > installing your own standalone installation, you know how to set up an > application server and a supported RDBMS, install and give a try to the > last snapshot to feel the newest improvements! Don't forget to use the > Create 200 Dummy Users snippet available at... > > http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Snippets/Create200DummyUsersSnippet > > ... and play for a while with Users and Groups administration. Out of > the box, XWiki features an amazingly powerful rights management system. > Of course control who can read or edit a given document of a part of it > is not a big issue for XWiki administrators. > > As for theming. Even though I think teaming is better than theming > working with XWiki :-) as many other development areas, it has also > evolved greatly in the last months. Some new concepts has been recently > introduced, for instance check the Skin Extensions Plugin > (http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Plugins/SkinExtensionsPlugin). > Right now is really easy to customized colours and logos, and modify any > UI characteristic by using Firefox Firebug to track the relevant CSS > XWiki code. Perhaps if you only look for a "classical" wiki, theming is > not the most friendly XWiki feature for you. But don't forget this: it > is completely scalable, so you should want to forget a bit about theming > for a while being sure that what you see in our UI is or will be easily > customizable in a near future. > > XWiki is what it reads in its portal's homepage: "The XWiki project > offers both a generic platform for developing collaborative applications > using the wiki paradigm and products developed on top of it." XWiki > Enterprise should be the product you are looking for, but this is only > the top of the iceberg. > > I'm not able to compare the use of flat-files vs RDBMS (SQL is just the > standard language that allows you to query such databases). BUT, once > again, don't forget that XWiki is more than a wiki. It uses a RDBMS to > hold a complex object-oriented structure. You can also use its SQL > plugin to query local or remote RDBMS tables, but also can its API > methods to design complex queries using HQL (Hibernate Query Language) > or XWQL (XWiki Query Language) > > More: each XWiki document could be considered a database on its own! It > could be composed of an unlimited number of objects + plain or more or > less structured text. > > Sticks with XWiki and won't only create a classical, fast and full > featured wiki but discover a full and funny universe of great > possibilities. And, most important of all: you will meet a great > community and development team! > > > Just my two cents! > > Ricardo > >> - Eric