Hi, On 26 Nov 2015 at 20:00:54, Anton Hughes (ah@tradeworks.io(mailto:ah@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

On 26 Nov 2015 at 20:33:23, Anton Hughes (ah@tradeworks.io) wrote: On 26 November 2015 at 20:18, vincent@massol.net <vincent@massol.net> wrote: 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. This document puts a lot of focus on collaboration - which I agree is an important aspect. However, as I have tried to point out, its easier to write html than Xwiki syntax.  I think I’m going to stop the discussion here since that clearly is a false assumption and you’d be hard-pressed to find a single user agreeing with you on this. BTW xwiki does support using HTML as an input syntax as I’ve already pointed out too in a previous answer linking to http://rendering.xwiki.org that lists all supported syntaxes. Thanks and have a good evening -Vincent Anton Hughes

Hi Hamster, On 2 Dec 2015 at 10:43:36, Hamster (teunham@hotmail.com(mailto:teunham@hotmail.com)) wrote:

Hi Anton,

Perhaps WikiWords Extension

is something you can look at?

@devs: with the recent changes with all the Nested Pages, does the WikiWords Extension

still work?

It’s not impacted. It only recognizes wiki words and create a reference to a page named after the wikiword so it’s not related to NS Thanks -Vincent

How does the WikiWord actually work? How can I write the word (the page name) which is from the nested space? Does it have some configuration for custom words, e.g. mapping word or expression to the page or external link? Thank you. On 2 December 2015 at 15:14, Hamster <teunham@hotmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for clearing that up!

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