Re: [xwiki-users] FAQ Application tutorial is incomprehensible

On 4 Sep 2015 at 19:56:31, Alex Henrie Indeed that’s the general premise of a wiki and that’s how it differs from other tools: collaborating and creating content is hard, which is why wikis make it easy for users to do so without having to ask for permissions. Notifications, history and rollback features are the way to provide oversight. In the huge majority of cases, no action is required and serendipity happens :) In XWiki, wiki pages can contain either unstructured data or structured data (xobjects). There’s no fundamental difference between both types of data and users should be free to add and modify any type of data (provided they have edit rights on the page). You mention “a page that is supposed to be wikitext-only”. Who says that? :) Who says that a page which starts with wiki text cannot be improved by having some part of it structured? I’ve done this countless of times to provide more features. I personally would find it a pity to arbitrarily restrict permissions to only some users. That’s not the principle of wikis at heart. I’d say: always try to be the most open, and if it causes problems then close down a bit if there’s no other way. In addition, some companies are used to the traditional way of working and would prefer to close down things a bit. Because XWiki is a flexible platform and because it’s an Enterprise Wiki, it has a strong permission model. Recently (in XWiki 7.2M1 and 7.2M2), we’ve added a new permission called the Scripting Permission and it’s possible to give it only to some users. See http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki72M1#HScr… and http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki72M2#HScr… I hope the rationale is more clear! (not sure if I explained it right :)).