Hi, I would like to add my humble 1 cent hoping it can help others to decide to get involved with XWiki.
Even though I frequently receive comments in the same direction Geoffrey points to, that is, users complaining about not having a "classical" way of organizing contents (that usually means not having a way of creating folder, and subfolders, and subsubfolders and so on, so forth) I usually succeed when explaining that XWiki introduces a different way of organizing and structuring enterprise information. I'm really afraid of using the wrong way concepts as taxonomy or hierarchy, thus I simply use the idea of system-driven creation and retrieval of contents. What XWiki offers you is a more-than-reasonable set of features out of the box but, much more interesting, is an impressive capability of integration of different programming and scripting environments, an impressive set of APIs, a mature data model [1] and database schema implementation [2]. With XWiki, you'll be creating a set of documents structured for the future: you can use a complete set of possibilities based on parent/child relationship, spaces, tags, instantiation of existing and new classes to create, structure, annotate and retrieve new pieces of information. But having XWiki in your organization, at lease in ours works like that, does mean to have some person being able translate your team requirements to XWiki structure, features and new application design (extrem design) capabilities. HTH! Ricardo [1] http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/DataModel [2] http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/DatabaseSchema > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeremie > BOUSQUET [[email protected]] > Sent: 09 April 2013 16:51 > To: XWiki Users > Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Classification in Xwiki > > Hello, > > My humble 2 cents ... The "Classification Extension" may be of some help to > start with [1]. > I agree with you that having a real "taxonomy" transverse to all xwiki > items (pages, spaces, objects..., blogs, tags, faq entries, ...) would be a > great improvement IMO. > Currently xwiki natural way of structuring content is more about > parent/child relation-ship and spaces. Taxonomy could bring more meaning to > that, as these relation-ships, in a big wiki, frequently are more > "technical", or driven by rights, more than by taxonomy. Very frequently, > you can't put a document in only one place logically, with a taxonomy you > could relate it to more than one topic for instance. > > BR, > Jeremie > > [1] > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Classification+Application > > > 2013/4/9 geoffreyma <[email protected]> > >> Hello, >> I have tried several enterprise wiki and I like Xwiki very much appart from >> one thing that makes me hesitant to go for it. >> This thing is the classification. It seems so messy for me to not have a >> clear classification of the pages and documents, and I think others get >> crazy with it too. >> What would seem logical and intuitive for me is to have by default a side >> panel with a tree of all the directories (or categories or spaces, >> depending >> on how you call it), sub directories, sub sub, and pages. By default this >> panel would be empty and as soon as you create a first test directory and a >> first test page, this panel would start to fill up. This would be the main >> menu by default. >> Xwiki has spaces, that's well. But why cannot we create sub spaces and why >> are they not displayed in a hierarchical menu on all pages? >> >> My suggestion is a kind of taxonomy improvement. We could have displayed by >> default on all pages: >> - a panel with a tree of the spaces and pages >> - a panel you can expand with the type of documents (wiki pages, documents, >> etc) so that you can access to a page displaying all the wiki pages, to a >> page displaying all the documents, to a page displaying all the blog posts, >> to a page displaying all the comments, etc. >> - a panel you can expand with collections (or "categories"). This >> collections would be created by the administrator and would be for example >> "Procedure", "Specification sheet", "Documentation", "News", etc. >> - a panel you can expand with all the users. When you click on a user, you >> can see a page with all the pages he has created, all the pages he as >> modified, etc. >> - a tag panel >> >> The Classification is one of the most important aspect in an >> ressources/knowledge/procedure portal. It seems for me that the >> classification should be improved in Xwiki. >> >> If I haven't understood something, could you help me by giving me the good >> practises on how enterprise organise their documents in xwiki so that it is >> easily and intuitively accessible by their users. >> Many thanks, >> Geoffrey >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Classification-in-Xwiki-tp7584636.html >> Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >_______________________________________________ >users mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users Nota: A información contida nesta mensaxe e os seus posibles documentos adxuntos é privada e confidencial e está dirixida únicamente ó seu destinatario/a. 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