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FAQ (FAQ.WebHome) - XWiki.org. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) are an easy way to find answers to most of your questions about XWiki.

FAQ (FAQ.WebHome) - XWiki.org

If you have a question you should verify if it's already in the FAQ list. If not then you should post a message on the XWiki Mailing List/Forum. The strategy is then for people who know the answer to create a new FAQ entry here about the question and reply in the mail with the link to the new FAQ Entry. In this manner we will quickly enrich this FAQ database. We have migrated to this new FAQ application and we're moving FAQ entries one by one from the old FAQ Application. Authentication database email i18n icon image link notification PDF redirect REST rights scripting skin space spam Windows (*) Some documents require special rights to be viewed.

Temporary provide a link for robots to index all FAQs.In the future, this link will be provided via a sitemap.AllFAQList. Second Generation Wiki (Main.SecondGenerationWiki. First generation wikis are used to collaborate on content.

Second Generation Wiki (Main.SecondGenerationWiki

Second generation wikis (a.k.a Application Wikis) can be used to create collaborative web applications. XWiki can be used either as a first generation wiki or a second generation one. Today most of user's needs are not satisfied because it takes too long and it's too costly to develop small applications. Actually lots of adhoc applications are developed today using tools like Microsoft Excel. However when it comes to developing a collaborative web application Excel is not the right tool. Chris Anderson introduced the concept of Long Tail. What it means is that there are thousands and thousands of applications required by users that are not built today because of prohibitive complexity and costs (the yellow area is larger than the red area on the diagram). What's special about XWiki Enterprise? (GettingStarted.WhatsSpecialAboutXWikiEnterprise) - XWiki. Mailing Lists & Forums (Community.MailingLists) - XWiki. What is a wiki and what can it be used for? (GettingStarted.WhatIsAWiki) - XWiki.

A wiki is a website that you can edit online easily.

What is a wiki and what can it be used for? (GettingStarted.WhatIsAWiki) - XWiki

Whenever you want to modify a page, click on the "edit" button, make your changes and save the page. The modified page now replaces the previous version. This makes it easy to update the website and have people contribute content. Each version of the page is stored in the page history and can be reverted to if needed. On top of this basic feature set, most wikis include additional features such as access rights management and notifications. The core advantage of a wiki compared with traditional Content Management Systems and ECM lies in its flexibility and the ease with which new pages can be added and linked to. Thanks to their flexibility and ease of use, wikis can be used to address a wide range of situations: Basically, a wiki can be used whenever you want to use a flexible platform to centralize information and share it with other people.

Next: What's special about XWiki Enterprise? Documentation (Main.Documentation) - XWiki.org. The XWiki.org web site is organized by projects and extensions, each having their own site.

Documentation (Main.Documentation) - XWiki.org

Every site holds the documentation for its projects and is linked from the website menu. Projects are documented on the following wikis: Documentation for XWiki Enterprise (Click here for the "Get Started" guide) Extensions have their own dedicated wiki: Documentation for extensions See the Contrib wiki. The XWiki Platform provides general information for admins that need to customize their wiki (authentication, DB, performance tuning, etc.) and for programmers interested in in-wiki application development, or in the integration of other software with XWiki. Getting Started with XWiki Enterprise (GettingStarted.WebHome) - XWiki. Welcome to the XWiki "Get Started" page.

Getting Started with XWiki Enterprise (GettingStarted.WebHome) - XWiki

This guide provides basic information on how to set up and use XWiki Enterprise. (Click here to learn more about wikis.) XWiki's use cases are diverse: collaborative intranet, knowledge base, CMS, competitive intelligence, public debate, collaborative creation of school courses, web site creation, etc. Optimizing XWiki — Encodo Systems AG. Once you’ve got an XWiki up and running (whether you imported a Mediawiki or not), you’ll find you want to tweak the standard rollout a bit.

Optimizing XWiki — Encodo Systems AG

Speeding up XWiki After working a while with XWiki, you may notice it getting slower. Our XWiki was kind of slow from the get-go and we pretty quickly figured out why: the slowdown was caused almost entirely by the pretty, DHTML list of all pages in the panel on the right side. It apparently takes quite some time to build this list (and ours included hundreds of pages from the import); it will have to go. Improving XWiki's Search — Encodo Systems AG. The XWiki.org site integrates—and has for a while—a search that’s different from the standard one.

Improving XWiki's Search — Encodo Systems AG

It offers users the ability of restricting a search to a specific space instead of searching all spaces at once. Here at Encodo, we’ve been keeping our weekly reports in the wiki for years and these reports have continuously muddied our search results. The new search is a great improvement over the original. Everything you see in XWiki is editable in one way or another and that includes the search page/panel. We’re going to replace some of these standard pages with our own code. The Search Form First we’ll create a page for the new search (Textbox etc.). The Results Page The code above gets you a new search form, but it won’t work until we update the results page as well. If you open in your web browser, you should now be able to use the new search.

Log in as administrator (if you aren’t already) and go to There you can edit/add new Panels (they are all wikipages remember?). Platform Features (Features.WebHome. User's Guide (UserGuide.WebHome) - XWiki.