25 Jan
2008
25 Jan
'08
3:46 p.m.
Hello again,
Thanks a lot for the reply to my request Vincent.
I am further encouraged to start using XWiki because of such good
participation from all.
Since, I have just started looking at it, I am also concerned about the
issues llike how is XWiki different from MediaWiki.
Why should one choose to use XWiki if there exists a wiki that has been
around for a while- like the mediawiki.
No offense meant. I know that this is a second generation wiki and is
possibly the best among all of its kind, but, I am just trying to justify
myself for choosing XWiki over others :)
Thanks
26 Jan
26 Jan
10:30 p.m.
hello
well from time to time the http://www.wikimatrix.org/ gives an answer.
i would argue it is first of all a personal opinion. one will find
multiple wikis that do the job. but only one with a better acceptance
than others.
in addition it depends into what environment you want to put your wiki
in. if a lot of things are php based your're better off with media wiki.
integration into other tools will be easier.
if youre java based xwiki will win the competition. even if php / java
integration is possible it will be more work.
also mediawiki is not the ultimate solution. the acl capabilities are
rudimentary. its very unstructured. categories dont help. but it is the
perfect solution for wikipedia and a lot of other sites. but it is not
perfect for manuals for software or software projects.
the purpose of xwiki is different (or seems different for me).
regards
ossi
Kamna Jain schrieb:
Hello again,
Thanks a lot for the reply to my request Vincent.
I am further encouraged to start using XWiki because of such good
participation from all.
Since, I have just started looking at it, I am also concerned about the
issues llike how is XWiki different from MediaWiki.
Why should one choose to use XWiki if there exists a wiki that has been
around for a while- like the mediawiki.
No offense meant. I know that this is a second generation wiki and is
possibly the best among all of its kind, but, I am just trying to
justify myself for choosing XWiki over others :)
Thanks
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11:56 p.m.
Le 26 janv. 08 à 22:30, ossi petz a écrit :
also mediawiki is not the ultimate solution. the acl
capabilities are
rudimentary. its very unstructured. categories dont help. but it is
the
perfect solution for wikipedia and a lot of other sites. but it is not
perfect for manuals for software or software projects.
It is interesting to note that it is not the "default" mediawiki
that's used in wikipedia at least for one reason: the search is
actually lucene based... (at least so it was two years ago) whereas
that doesn't come out of the box at all in mediawiki.
Having now played with XWiki since a while, I dare say it's a power-
beast you can do kilometers with, far beyond what I know of MediaWiki
(i.e. I'd be programming PHP since long there to do the same). With
the large availability of further libraries in Java, I think XWiki is
the best choice if you're looking into spending time and extend it a
lot.
Maybe a few usability things are slightly more polished in MediaWiki
for its default usage... but as Ossi said, as soon as you wish a bit
more rights-management, MediaWiki is already difficult to manage
whereas XWiki starts to be the perfect toy!
paul
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