Hi Trevor, Thanks for your kind words and the piece of feedback which is very useful :) I'm glad you liked the product.
You may know that we had started XOffice (http://xoffice.xwiki.org/) a few years ago. IMO it was a very good effort to bring xwiki into the hands of MS Word users. Unfortunately our main committer on this is no longer active ATM… Before you go if you have ideas for "integrating with user's favorite editors" that would be great. Do you mean something like XOffice or do you mean something else? Take care, -Vincent On Apr 6, 2012, at 4:26 PM, Trevor Russ wrote: > We chose XWiki back in 2009 as our wiki solution and we had successfully set > up a complete farm of 4 wikis. I have been following the progress of XWiki > since then, but unfortunately it was never utilized by our team, mostly > because the users did not want to invest the time in learning a new WYSIWYG > editor. In the end I was the only one who used it so the time has finally > come to shut it down and look at an alternative solution -- perhaps a simple > document manager. I saw a lot of potential in XWiki for our purposes, but > didn't quite have the time to sell it to the others. > > Before I remove myself from the mailing list, I just wanted to put forward > one comment as feedback: don't discount the learning curve that confronts > users new to the wiki. Many of them are proficient in their ways of editing > documents (which usually means MS Word) and don't have the time to invest > learning new document formatting tools. If you want to capture a larger > share of the market, look at ways of integrating with users' favourite > editors; I think that would go a long way. > > You have a very impressive product, and I've been amazed at the level of > commitment and professionalism that has gone into this wiki. Thanks for > everybody's efforts and best of luck going forward. > > Trevor _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
