Hi, I'm not quite sure what you mean, and i admit i don't know wikidot. But found XWiki out of the box quite easy. You can limit the features for your users unless you need them by simply declining them the right to access the space. E.g. Your Users only see Main, Sandbox, Annotations and maybe Blog as well as their naturell spaces which you or they create. Then its only site editing with WYSIWIG Editor (no need to learn code) and history comments attachments annotations on the bottom. Maybe i'm wrong but I don't think thats too complicated. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: users-bounces(a)xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org] Im Auftrag von abc6587 Gesendet: Donnerstag, 8. Juli 2010 20:08 An: XWiki Users Betreff: [xwiki-users] A simpler configuration? Hi, I've installed xwiki, and found it a bit too rich in features, out of the box, for a novice user. Maybe because I did not use it right? I confess I am a wikidot fan. With all its limitations, it's intuitive and mirrors the way people think. It has a very small set of features, but that's probably its strength, as it's very easy to learn. Unfortunately, its access control is too primitive to my (intranet) needs; plus, as a programmer, the idea of programmable wiki surely sounds sweet. In a nutshell, I feel wikidot makes easy things simple. xwiki makes complex things possible. Ideally, I'd love to find a wiki that does both. A wiki that looks just like wikidot out of the box, then grows on you as you learn advanced tricks. Not a system that shocks end users with busy screens and code in the edit window. 90% of users don't want to learn that; not until they are captivated by the system's ease of use. Is there such a thing? _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

I see. Thanks for the explanation. Well, yes, that may be a problem. This asks for two things: 1) a knowledgeable admin, right out of the box 2) an admin determined enough to go through the pain, without an eye candy to see first. That's a barrier to entry. If the same thing was to be said about Excel, Excel would not be nearly as popular. Is xwiki basing its marketing strategy on admins, or end-users? I think end-users should be its ultimate customers and fans.. it's already going the long way with its self-contained download (end users don't want to mess with Apache and wars).. I think the out-of-box download should be an eye candy with a killer skin and carefully selected options, that will let users to just enjoy populating the wiki with what's in their heads, and maybe an "advanced" option somewhere in the menu for developers and admins. JMHO.. On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <sergiu(a)xwiki.com> wrote: