Re: [xwiki-users] [Proposal] Comparing XWiki to MediaWiki and Confluence on xwiki.org

Useful comparisons, but I wasn't sure who the expected reader would be. The XWiki vs Confluence comparison feels rather biased so wouldn't be very helpful to someone trying to make a rational decision. The table makes them seem identical (perhaps it would be useful to highlight the actual differences) aside from license. Both are listed as having a ticketing plugin, but last time I checked (admittedly over a year ago) I couldn't find a robust plugin anywhere close to Confluence's offerings. The extensions in XWiki really vary in quality, whereas Confluence has a lot of very polished plugins. That's at least been my experience, and I think there's a need to distinguish between high-quality maintained extensions vs. the more hacky ones. The lack of a markup editor in Confluence is a big difference. Might be worth illustrating further. I think the page hierarchy model is rather difference. Confluence makes chaining of child pages very easy, and access restrictions to child pages is simple to manage. XWiki was a bit clunky by comparison, but that was for 7.1 and maybe the addition of sub-spaces in more recent versions makes this easier to manage. The other big difference, to me, is in documentation. XWiki has changed a lot over the years, particularly in the API, and a lot of the material discoverable on the web is out of date. My perception is that Confluence's API has been more stable over successive releases and more effort has been invested in keeping documentation up to date. Much of this difference is just a natural outcome of the proprietary vs. open source backgrounds of each system.