I’m trying to migrate to XWiki after using MediaWiki on my Linux desktop as my personal KB. I have 250 MW pages - the XML export is 220 Meg.
First, the good:
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Installation of XWiki is much easier than MW.
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The WYSIWYG editing options are much better than MW - you even have a format painter!
Now, the frustrations:
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The installation instructions didn’t tell me how to get to (start) my XWiki! I must have seen a dozen pages that said “start your wiki, and then click on such-and-such.” It took way too much searching to learn that I needed to use http://localhost:8080/xwiki
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Extensions. By definition, extensions add functionality. Your “extensions,” however, also provide core functionality. That makes the extension list huge, difficult to manage, and difficult to find what I’m browsing for.
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There is lots of documentation about the large number of extensions, but nothing tells me how to use them. For example, while scrolling through the extensions, I see there’s a Scheduler. What for? Where is it?
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I installed the MediaWiki XML extension to import my MW data, but nothing in the installation process tells me how to use it. When I search and search and search, I finally learn that I have to use the Filter Streams Converter?!?!?!
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When I imported the MW XML, the import aborts with an error. Where is the log? When I look in the Admin section, I see a ton of log options, but no way to view the log.
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Issue 5 made me search my OS for the logs. I found this folder: /var/lib/xwiki/data/solr/xwiki/data/tlog, but those logs have binary data.
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Those logs reveal a bunch of silly internal errors about features that I chose not to enable. Since my wiki is a local, single-user KnowledgeBase, I don’t need the wiki to use email, watches, or notifications. Logging errors about those disabled functions is just silly, and a waste of system resources.
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Your Syntax Highlighting seems to be designed for your internal developers, not your users/customers. There is no support for SQL, VB, or Linux bash scripting, which makes the highlighting useless to me.
I liked the ease of installation of XWiki, and the available options seemed promising. But for my needs, XWiki seems like a beta product.