[xwiki-users] Hello! Newly Installed XWIKI
Hello! while I've been frustrated form installing mediawiki... I found XWIKI....The installation was easy and straight-forward then I encountered with an excellent tool for my job: I am not a administrating and I don't want Online wiki so much (at least for 1-2 year)... currently I just need a wiki for my personal use: 1) is XWIKI a good choice for someone like me? 2) I need LaTeX support is it available? 3) I'm a newbie ( I just know a little HTML...) is XWIKI a good alternative for my personal DMS? 4) I've installed my XWIKI on Fedora 11 in /home/user/.XWiki folder is it possible to reinstall it? 5) I can't access my xwiki via menu's shortcut I've to cd .XWiki and "sh start....sh" It works but I want a total solution 6) where do my pages store? excuxe me for this long list question Thanks!
Hi Sadid 2010/4/30 sadid sahami <sadidsahami@gmail.com>
Hello! while I've been frustrated form installing mediawiki... I found XWIKI....The installation was easy and straight-forward then I encountered with an excellent tool for my job: I am not a administrating and I don't want Online wiki so much (at least for 1-2 year)... currently I just need a wiki for my personal use: 1) is XWIKI a good choice for someone like me?
Yep XWiki is a very good wiki but also a platform to develop on new applications (applications here http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Applications/) using scripting languages (groovy, velocity) more info here<http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/SecondGenerationWiki> , of course the raison d'etre of XWiki or wikis in general is collaborative editing/working 2) I need LaTeX support is it available?
LaTex is present in idea/proposal page http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Idea/ I don't know if LaTeX support is present in XWiki.
3) I'm a newbie ( I just know a little HTML...) is XWIKI a good alternative for my personal DMS?
I think YES :)
4) I've installed my XWIKI on Fedora 11 in /home/user/.XWiki folder is it possible to reinstall it?
I don't know it yet.
5) I can't access my xwiki via menu's shortcut I've to cd .XWiki and "sh start....sh" It works but I want a total solution
You can create a new menu item right-clicking on menu (Applications) -> Edit menus -> New Item -> now you should give a name, indicate the script you should exec, optionally adding a comment if you like. Here there's a screenshot (Italian) -> http://www.imagebanana.com/img/kdgkogxl/Schermata3.png
6) where do my pages store?
I don't know it yet.
excuxe me for this long list question Thanks! _______________________________________________
No worries, you're welcome! Feel free to ask :-) There's also an irc channel on freenode at #xwiki Happy XWiki Giuseppe.
Giuseppe Vallarelli wrote:
Hi Sadid
2010/4/30 sadid sahami <sadidsahami@gmail.com>
Hello! while I've been frustrated form installing mediawiki... I found XWIKI....The installation was easy and straight-forward then I encountered with an excellent tool for my job: I am not a administrating and I don't want Online wiki so much (at least for 1-2 year)... currently I just need a wiki for my personal use: 1) is XWIKI a good choice for someone like me?
Yep XWiki is a very good wiki but also a platform to develop on new applications (applications here http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Applications/) using scripting languages (groovy, velocity) more info here<http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/SecondGenerationWiki> , of course the raison d'etre of XWiki or wikis in general is collaborative editing/working
If you need speed, security and simplicity for a large production system then I think Mediawiki is your best bet (although there are some large systems running XWiki). If you need flexibility, features and ease of use/installation, then you've come to the right place. Keep in mind Wikipedia's functionality largely comes from some 700 bots which maintain the site. In XWiki this could all be done in script on the server.
2) I need LaTeX support is it available?
LaTex is present in idea/proposal page http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Idea/ I don't know if LaTeX support is present in XWiki.
See: http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Macros/FormulaMacro
3) I'm a newbie ( I just know a little HTML...) is XWIKI a good alternative for my personal DMS?
I think YES :)
This and corporate/educational intranets is where we excel.
4) I've installed my XWIKI on Fedora 11 in /home/user/.XWiki folder is it possible to reinstall it?
I don't know it yet.
5) I can't access my xwiki via menu's shortcut I've to cd .XWiki and "sh start....sh" It works but I want a total solution
You can create a new menu item right-clicking on menu (Applications) -> Edit menus -> New Item -> now you should give a name, indicate the script you should exec, optionally adding a comment if you like. Here there's a screenshot (Italian) -> http://www.imagebanana.com/img/kdgkogxl/Schermata3.png
Or add a line to ~/.bashrc This will run whenever you log in.
6) where do my pages store?
I don't know it yet.
There is a database which uses HSQLDB by default, I think the database is stored in a file somewhere. See: http://hsqldb.org/
excuxe me for this long list question Thanks! _______________________________________________
No worries, you're welcome! Feel free to ask :-) There's also an irc channel on freenode at #xwiki
Happy XWiki
Giuseppe.
Support is one of our strong points :) Caleb
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On Apr 30, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Caleb James DeLisle wrote:
Giuseppe Vallarelli wrote:
Hi Sadid
2010/4/30 sadid sahami <sadidsahami@gmail.com>
Hello! while I've been frustrated form installing mediawiki... I found XWIKI....The installation was easy and straight-forward then I encountered with an excellent tool for my job: I am not a administrating and I don't want Online wiki so much (at least for 1-2 year)... currently I just need a wiki for my personal use: 1) is XWIKI a good choice for someone like me?
Yep XWiki is a very good wiki but also a platform to develop on new applications (applications here http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Applications/) using scripting languages (groovy, velocity) more info here<http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/SecondGenerationWiki> , of course the raison d'etre of XWiki or wikis in general is collaborative editing/working
If you need speed, security and simplicity for a large production system then I think Mediawiki is your best bet (although there are some large systems running XWiki).
hmm is it simpler to install/use mediawiki? If so what we can do to change that? Does the simple user/advanced user not solve this issue? (we need to know why mediawiki is "simpler" first to tackle the problem). Re speed/security I don't know enough to judge. Thanks -Vincent
If you need flexibility, features and ease of use/installation, then you've come to the right place. Keep in mind Wikipedia's functionality largely comes from some 700 bots which maintain the site. In XWiki this could all be done in script on the server.
[snip]
Vincent Massol wrote:
On Apr 30, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Caleb James DeLisle wrote:
Giuseppe Vallarelli wrote:
Hi Sadid
2010/4/30 sadid sahami <sadidsahami@gmail.com>
Hello! while I've been frustrated form installing mediawiki... I found XWIKI....The installation was easy and straight-forward then I encountered with an excellent tool for my job: I am not a administrating and I don't want Online wiki so much (at least for 1-2 year)... currently I just need a wiki for my personal use: 1) is XWIKI a good choice for someone like me?
Yep XWiki is a very good wiki but also a platform to develop on new applications (applications here http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Applications/) using scripting languages (groovy, velocity) more info here<http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/SecondGenerationWiki> , of course the raison d'etre of XWiki or wikis in general is collaborative editing/working If you need speed, security and simplicity for a large production system then I think Mediawiki is your best bet (although there are some large systems running XWiki).
hmm is it simpler to install/use mediawiki?
If so what we can do to change that? Does the simple user/advanced user not solve this issue? (we need to know why mediawiki is "simpler" first to tackle the problem).
No installing Mediawiki is definitely not easy ;) As I understand it, the code base is much smaller which means there is less for an admin to worry about in a large production system (less to worry about going wrong). I want to see people using XWiki for the right reasons, because it can be deployed in an hour, has a sane administration interface and they can get it to do what they want without writing a bot. But still I believe there are use cases for Mediawiki just as there are use cases for a plain httpd. Some salesman I am ;) Caleb
Re speed/security I don't know enough to judge.
Thanks -Vincent
If you need flexibility, features and ease of use/installation, then you've come to the right place. Keep in mind Wikipedia's functionality largely comes from some 700 bots which maintain the site. In XWiki this could all be done in script on the server.
[snip]
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