XWiki: wiki collaboration as an alternative to Confluence and Sharepoint
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This document compares the wiki collaboration platform XWiki to Confluence and Sharepoint. It outlines XWiki's main differentiators as being open source and community-based development, high configurability directly in the wiki, and structured data as a built-in feature. It discusses XWiki's open source nature, extensive customizability options through UI extensions and configurations, built-in structured data capabilities, and ability for non-developers to create simple applications. Feedback from users praises XWiki's functionality, extensive extensions, flexibility, active community, and quality over other wiki systems like Confluence.
XWiki: wiki collaboration as an alternative to Confluence and Sharepoint
- 1. XWiki Wiki Collaboration as an alternative to Confluence or Sharepoint Vincent Massol, December 2017
- 2. Main differentiators • XWiki: • Open source and community-based development • Highly configurable (can be done in the wiki directly) • Structured data as a built-in feature • Ability for non-developers to create small applications
- 3. X W I K I
- 4. Open Source Reduced lock-in XWiki: Community-based dev (own Governance) Lots of add-ons Community Support Ability to make modifications (and fix issues) No license cost but must contribute in exchange (code, finance)
- 7. Configurability - Skin Can be done on filesystem or in wiki pages!
- 8. Configurability - UIXP Allow to augment the UI without touching the skin (21 so far)
- 10. Configurability - Architect. Component-based development Any part of XWiki can be modified Attachments saved in S3 In-house permission system Custom Search Server Example
- 11. Configurability - Extensions • Forum • Meeting Manager • Calendar • Publication Workflow • FAQ
- 12. Structured Data Structure defined in a wiki page! And view and edit displayers too!
- 13. Structured Data Act on the data, e.g. Filtered live table
- 14. Creating your Apps Easily create small applications Wizard to get started Non-developers can use it for simple apps
- 15. Creating your Apps For more complex apps, benefit from all the APIs
- 16. If there’s only one thing to remember XWiki is the perfect wiki whenever you need a collaborative web site fitting your custom needs. Standard wiki Custom collab. site Start Evolve to, when needed
- 17. Feedbacks I looked at a number of wiki projects to use at work (we are replacing mediawiki) and XWiki was easily ahead of the others. It also won out over Confluence which I guess many people would see as the class- leading "enterprise wiki". 10+ years of experience w/ @confluence & I must say, I'm hard pressed to find anything that I need there, that @XWiki does not provide. Overall * Comparable in functionality to Confluence * Vast set of extensions * Flexible and mature extension APIs * Active and responsive community * Written in most popular programming language: Java * Healthy project architecture and development process * Focus on quality We have used several opensource wiki systems, but in terms of ease of configuration, support and functionality - XWiki is the ultimate winner I've been looking for an open source wiki with rich text editing. In some ways it's the OpenOffice replacement for Sharepoint.
- 18. Q&A Me