Hi, On 26 Nov 2015 at 20:00:54, Anton Hughes (a...@tradeworks.io(mailto:a...@tradeworks.io)) wrote:
> HI all > > One of the key concepts of a wiki is its easy for everyone to edit. There > are various wiki syntaxs - perhaps the most popular being Mediawiki - and > all of them have a goal of making it easy for users to write in the > specific syntax, without the need to know html. > > So, one of the most basic features of a wiki, CMS, and the web, is linking. > In Html a user has to write > > - a > - href - the user has to know if it is relative or absolute > - link text > > Its not a lot, but its still too much for non technical people. > > In a normal wiki a user just writes > [[MyExamplePage]] [[MyExamplePage]] works in XWiki too :) > This is so simple that anyone can do it! Why don’t you try it on xwiki? > In XWiki (and I found this out by using the wysiwyg editor) > [[MyExamplePage>>doc:MyExamplePage.WebHome]] > > What is doc? And WebHome? And >>? And whats with the dots, semi colons? See http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax BTW XWiki supports several syntaxes, see http://rendering.xwiki.org/ > As a technical person I can probably figure this out. But there is no way I > could sell my management on this. Non technical people will never > understand this. > > And yes, non-tech people can use the wysiwyg. But then why use a wiki? Why > not just use a CMS. If the only difference you see is the markup then you’re missing a lot :) See http://www.xwiki.com/fr/comparatifs/xwiki-vs-cms for example. Thanks -Vincent > Anton Hughes _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
