Hi Sadid 2010/4/30 sadid sahami &lt;sadidsahami(a)gmail.com Yep XWiki is a very good wiki but also a platform to develop on new applications (applications here http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Applications/) using scripting languages (groovy, velocity) more info here<http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/SecondGenerationWiki, of course the raison d'etre of XWiki or wikis in general is collaborative editing/working 2) I need LaTeX support is it available? LaTex is present in idea/proposal page http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Idea/ I don't know if LaTeX support is present in XWiki. > 3) I'm a newbie ( I just know a little HTML...) is XWIKI a good alternative > for my personal DMS? I think YES :) > 4) I've installed my XWIKI on Fedora 11 in /home/user/.XWiki folder is it > possible to reinstall it? I don't know it yet. > 5) I can't access my xwiki via menu's shortcut I've to cd .XWiki and "sh > start....sh" It works but I want a total solution You can create a new menu item right-clicking on menu (Applications) -> Edit menus -> New Item -now you should give a name, indicate the script you should exec, optionally adding a comment if you like. Here there's a screenshot (Italian) -http://www.imagebanana.com/img/kdgkogxl/Schermata3.png > 6) where do my pages store? I don't know it yet. > excuxe me for this long list question > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ No worries, you're welcome! Feel free to ask :-) There's also an irc channel on freenode at #xwiki Happy XWiki Giuseppe.

On Apr 30, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Caleb James DeLisle wrote: hmm is it simpler to install/use mediawiki? If so what we can do to change that? Does the simple user/advanced user not solve this issue? (we need to know why mediawiki is "simpler" first to tackle the problem). Re speed/security I don't know enough to judge. Thanks -Vincent [snip]