On Dec 6, 2010, at 5:12 AM, Eric Tse wrote: > Cool cool. Am I able to customize it enough so it looks like an actual > website and not a wiki? (Wikipedia style)
Yes You can also check some screenshots here: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Screenshots Thanks -Vincent > - Eric > > > On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Ricardo Rodriguez [eBioTIC.] < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> Eric Tse wrote: >>> Hey guys, just subscribed to this list. >>> >>> I'm currently stuck between two softwares: XWiki and Foswiki. >>> >>> What I'm looking for is: >>> Speed/Performance >>> Access control (Guests can only read and not modify, certain users can >>> modify) >>> Good theming/Easy theming. >>> An overall good wiki with user-friendly UI. >>> >>> Foswiki is flatfile and xwiki is SQL based. I hear that SQL is generally >>> better, is that the case? Foswiki seems to be pretty fast even if it is >>> flatfile. >>> >>> Thanks :) >>> >>> >> >> XWiki is not only a wiki: it is a complete and powerful Java based >> development framework. I arrived here from MediaWiki looking for access >> management and I found much, much more than this. I think it is worth >> you give it a try! Even more: if after playing for a while in the >> sandbox (http://xoffice.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Sandbox/), or asking >> and using your own wiki in MyWiki community farm or Netcipia, or >> installing your own standalone installation, you know how to set up an >> application server and a supported RDBMS, install and give a try to the >> last snapshot to feel the newest improvements! Don't forget to use the >> Create 200 Dummy Users snippet available at... >> >> http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Snippets/Create200DummyUsersSnippet >> >> ... and play for a while with Users and Groups administration. Out of >> the box, XWiki features an amazingly powerful rights management system. >> Of course control who can read or edit a given document of a part of it >> is not a big issue for XWiki administrators. >> >> As for theming. Even though I think teaming is better than theming >> working with XWiki :-) as many other development areas, it has also >> evolved greatly in the last months. Some new concepts has been recently >> introduced, for instance check the Skin Extensions Plugin >> (http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Plugins/SkinExtensionsPlugin). >> Right now is really easy to customized colours and logos, and modify any >> UI characteristic by using Firefox Firebug to track the relevant CSS >> XWiki code. Perhaps if you only look for a "classical" wiki, theming is >> not the most friendly XWiki feature for you. But don't forget this: it >> is completely scalable, so you should want to forget a bit about theming >> for a while being sure that what you see in our UI is or will be easily >> customizable in a near future. >> >> XWiki is what it reads in its portal's homepage: "The XWiki project >> offers both a generic platform for developing collaborative applications >> using the wiki paradigm and products developed on top of it." XWiki >> Enterprise should be the product you are looking for, but this is only >> the top of the iceberg. >> >> I'm not able to compare the use of flat-files vs RDBMS (SQL is just the >> standard language that allows you to query such databases). BUT, once >> again, don't forget that XWiki is more than a wiki. It uses a RDBMS to >> hold a complex object-oriented structure. You can also use its SQL >> plugin to query local or remote RDBMS tables, but also can its API >> methods to design complex queries using HQL (Hibernate Query Language) >> or XWQL (XWiki Query Language) >> >> More: each XWiki document could be considered a database on its own! It >> could be composed of an unlimited number of objects + plain or more or >> less structured text. >> >> Sticks with XWiki and won't only create a classical, fast and full >> featured wiki but discover a full and funny universe of great >> possibilities. And, most important of all: you will meet a great >> community and development team! >> >> >> Just my two cents! >> >> Ricardo >> >>> - Eric _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
