Re: [xwiki-users] XWiki Vs. MediaWiki
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 ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [xwiki-users] XWiki Vs. MediaWiki
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 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
