XWiki was chosen over TWiki for many reasons, each decision was based on factors of different priorities to different decision makers. Here are the 5 major reasons: 1. XWiki was written to provide an eXtended - wiki (hence X - Wiki) that would include the best features out there and based on what XWiki creator Ludovic, who was a TWiki user, thought was missing and need improvements in TWiki. 2. XWiki was written with the aim of making it a modular and flexible platform. It is one of the few wikis to offer the easy application building capabilities and do so natively. 3. XWiki is written in JAVA. XWiki is closer to large Enterprise needs than TWiki because the Java platform is chosen by lots of large companies. 4. XWiki has a great user support group which is critical to any open source software. 5. XWiki has a tough and convenient access control system which is crucial to many applications. For an up-to-date detail comparison between XWiki and TWiki, see this page http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/TWiki+XWiki For a list of applications built on XWiki platform, see this page http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/References/ For a view of what is coming about bug fixes and upgrades in XWiki commuity, see this page http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Vincent Massol <vincent@massol.net>

On Jun 21, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Pavel wrote:

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My personal choice of XWiki was driven by the following considerations

1. I know only java, thus can maintain wiki in java only. 2. I can't afford Confluence license for just a personal wiki. If only they had appropriate license for this niche... 3. From the remaining alternatives (not numerous unfortunately) XWiki looks like the most appropriate one.

That doesn't sound very encouraging as you're basically saying you've picked XWiki not because it was good but because there were no other good solution... ;)

That said, it's very good that you'd have picked Confluence as this is a good way for us to find out what needs to be improved in XWiki so that you'd pick it if money wasn't an issue, from your POV. Would you mind listing things you don't like in XWiki or things that are missing?

Thanks -Vincent

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-----Original Message----- From: wangwh@att.net [mailto:wangwh@att.net] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 5:01 AM To: xwiki-users@objectweb.org Subject: [xwiki-users] xwiki vs twiki

Hi, all XWiki users,

I know this is a tough question....

Anyone has experience in using TWiki and willing to point out why would anyone choose XWiki over TWiki?

I know both are pretty good, both are open source, both have many supporters, both can do almost the same things, but for someone new, what are the reasons to consider to choose XWiki?

For it is written in JAVA? for the user group? for the future direction? for the access control?

Wei-hsing

ps. Anyone plan to attend Wikimania in Taiwan this summer? to learn from the MediaWiki or WikiMedia? (I know Vincent is, right?)

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