On 07/08/2010 08:07 PM, abc6587 wrote: > 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?
Hi, XWiki has three parts: things for administrator, things for developers, and things for users. The first time you start using XWiki, these three parts are not clearly separated, since you get the Admin account and an almost empty wiki. The idea is that after the first install, the administrator(s) do the configuration, create the initial content and remove unneeded things, and create/grant developer accounts. Then the developers come and create applications, which should be easy to use by normal users. Then, end users come and populate the site with basic wiki pages and application data. At this stage, the complex things are hidden. Normal user profiles don't see the access rights, the wiki editor or the object/class editors, but just a simple "Edit" button which opens either the WYSIWYG editor of a simple page, or the editable form of a structured application page. Absolutely no need to understand code. So, after the wiki is setup by administrators and developers, users should just see the WYSIWYG editor, comments, annotations, attachments, history. Complex? I'd like to believe that it isn't. The problem is that the first persons to handle the wiki must know the platform enough to get things started. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
