21 Jun
2007
21 Jun
'07
10:26 a.m.
On Jun 21, 2007, at 10:06 AM, Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
Hi,
a bit of history would be interesting here :-)
Basically, when XWiki was first written its aim was to provide an
eXtended - wiki (hence X - Wiki) that would include the best
features out there at the time (back in 2003 I think). Ludovic was
inspired by TWiki he used to great effect in his previous jobs, but
felt like something was missing.
Then he wrote XWiki, with the aim of making it a modular and
flexible platform. It is one of the few wikis to offer the easy
application building capabilities it has, and the only Open Source
wiki I know of to provide this. TWiki offers flexibility through
plugins too, but not to the level XWiki does. You can create a
template in minutes and tweak it to suit your need, immediately.
To keep it short, XWiki is meant by design to be easy to add to and
to build from while TWiki does so less natively.
Then all the reasons you suggested are important too (XWiki is
written in JAVA, it has a great user group, its future direction is
decided clearly and access control rights are tough), depending on
what your requirements are and what programmation languages you are
literate in...
Hope this helps a bit, please ask for more details if you need
them :-)
I'm pretty sure TWiki fans would say something similar ;) It would be
interesting to know TWiki's fan answers if you've asked on their
lists...
I have also used TWiki in the past (it was the first wiki I ever
used). I think you're right in saying that it mostly depend on your
familiarity with the underlying language. I have the feeling XWiki is
closer to large Enterprise needs than TWiki is simply because the
Java platform is the selection of choice for lots of large companies.
The other things are the applications mentioned by Guillaume. For
example if you check on http://www.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/
Solutions/ you'll see XWiki Watch, Chronopoly and Nearbee which are
examples of applications built on top of XWiki. You can also check
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/References/ to see what people
are doing with XWiki.
-Vincent
On 21/06/07, wangwh(a)att.net <wangwh(a)att.net>
wrote:
Hi, all XWiki users,
I know this is a tough question....
Anyone has experience in using TWiki and willing to point out why
would anyone choose XWiki over TWiki?
I know both are pretty good, both are open source, both have many
supporters, both can do almost the same things, but for someone
new, what are the reasons to consider to choose XWiki?
For it is written in JAVA? for the user group? for the future
direction? for the access control?
Wei-hsing
ps. Anyone plan to attend Wikimania in Taiwan this summer? to learn
from the MediaWiki or WikiMedia? (I know Vincent is, right?)
--
You receive this message as a subscriber of the xwiki-
users(a)objectweb.org mailing list.
To unsubscribe: mailto: xwiki-users-unsubscribe(a)objectweb.org
For general help: mailto:sympa@objectweb.org?subject=help
ObjectWeb mailing lists service home page: http://www.objectweb.org/
wws
--
http://wikibc.blogspot.com/
--
You receive this message as a subscriber of the xwiki-
users(a)objectweb.org mailing list.
To unsubscribe: mailto:xwiki-users-unsubscribe@objectweb.org
For general help: mailto:sympa@objectweb.org?subject=help
ObjectWeb mailing lists service home page: http://www.objectweb.org/
wws