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Refactor the Get Started as a User documentation to the Documentation Guide

Last modified by Eleni Cojocariu on 2026/08/10 23:05

Review and refactor of documentation.xs.user.get-started and its three child pages against the Documentation Guide. No page is created, moved or deleted — the tree and its navigation order are unchanged.

second-generation-wiki was written entirely as {{velocity}} + {{html}}: a Bootstrap grid, <ul class="features-grid"> lists and FontAwesome icons, styled by $xwiki.ssx.use("Documentation.UserGuide.Features.SecondGenerationWiki.WebHome"). That legacy page is already stripped to a redirect stub, so the new page's whole layout depended on a page the migration is meant to delete. It is rewritten in XWiki syntax, which also drops the #set($docextras=[]) hack and two malformed class="col-sm-6"" attributes. Its two annotated feature inventories were Reference material inside an Explanation, so they become one comparison table and the page keeps the *why*.

wikis-xwiki used {{velocity filter="none"}} + {{html clean="false"}} around the legacy #startfloatingbox() macro, and inserted its image with height="350" — in the documentation space size is mandatory and width/height are forbidden, which only escaped the checker because it sat inside an {{html}} block. Its "What makes XWiki special?" section also re-explained first versus second generation wikis, which is the entire subject of its sibling; that is now one sentence and a link. Fixed "a central hub for information is stored".

home-page's table was broken in two ways: the header row was missing the = on "Page Areas", and the rows under the rowspan="4" cells carried an extra empty placeholder cell, so they emitted five cells into a four-column table and every Edit/Follow/More row was shifted one column right.

Technical IDs were unprefixed, so the extension badge could not resolve; they are now xwiki:-prefixed, and the two pages that had none are associated with the flavor. Note the same unprefixed value is on documentation.xs.admin.get-started and wants a separate sweep.

Links into the old tree are repointed where a new-tree page exists (Rights, Exports, the Developer documentation). Three have no new-tree equivalent yet and deliberately still point at the old one: the Attachments tab, the complete list of features, and Programming features.

Screenshots are re-captured on XWiki 17.10.11 at exactly 960px, the width size="extra" renders at, instead of 968px rescaled by the browser, and on content that no longer shows the leftover testtt-french / en-za locale-test pages. The hub gets the plain Home page as the result step of its procedure; home-page keeps the numbered version, re-done with red 255, 0, 0 boxes over the real elements. xwiki-long-tail.png was the one picture still at its legacy width — 556px displayed at size="large", so the browser upscaled and blurred it. It is redrawn from the original's own geometry at exactly 650px, which also makes its labels crisp again.

The hub's procedure gains a step routing on to "Create your first Page", and its closing step now reads as the result of the procedure rather than as one more instruction: the Home page link moved into the step itself, and the trailing "See Home Page for what each area of it does" sentence — an explanation inside a step — is gone.

One fact, one page. Splitting one subject over a hub and three children leaves each page restating the context the others already give, and every page still reads fine on its own, so the four were compared side by side:

  • "navigate, create and manage your content" was both the hub's last step and home-page's opening sentence. The hub keeps it; home-page's intro now introduces its own table.
  • wikis-xwiki named the Blog and the Task Manager as ready-made applications, which is exactly what second-generation-wiki's table lists in full, and "without programming" was stated on both pages and answered by second-generation-wiki's FAQ. The claim now lives on wikis-xwiki, the mechanism in that FAQ, and second-generation-wiki's closing sentence drops it.
  • second-generation-wiki's opening sentence listed the first generation features that its own table lists one line below.
  • wikis-xwiki's "That is why XWiki is used as a website, an intranet, a knowledge base and a learning platform alike" repeated its image caption word for word.

examples-wikis.png illustrates how XWiki is used, not what a wiki is, so it moves out of "What is a wiki?" and into "What makes XWiki special?", where its caption belongs. wikis-xwiki also had an empty FAQ, and now answers the one question neither of its sections does: whether XWiki is free.

Two things found during the review are not in this change request, because each needs its own pass:

  • Documentation.UserGuide.GettingStarted is correctly stripped and redirecting, but its 14 attachments were never deleted (including Homepage.PNG *and* Homepage.png, which are two separate attachments).
  • The {{image}} macro drops its alt parameter and substitutes the file name whenever size is set — reproduced on all four pages here and, unrelated, on base.page.edit-page. The exact combination the guide mandates in the documentation space is currently the one that produces a page with no alternative text. This wants a JIRA issue against the Documentation application.

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1 1  To get started with XWiki:
2 2  
3 -1. Learn [[about wikis and XWiki>>xwiki:documentation.xs.user.get-started.wikis-xwiki.WebHome]].
4 -1. Understand that [[XWiki is a second generation wiki>>xwiki:documentation.xs.user.get-started.second-generation-wiki.WebHome]].
5 -1. [[Try XWiki directly online>>doc:Hosted.WebHome]] or [[Download>>xwiki:Download.WebHome]] one of the XWiki versions.
6 -1. [[Explore the Home page>>xwiki:documentation.xs.user.get-started.home-page.WebHome]].(((
7 -{{image reference="home-page.png" size="extra" alt="The standard XWiki Home page user interface"/}}
3 +1. Learn [[about wikis and XWiki>>doc:documentation.xs.user.get-started.wikis-xwiki.WebHome]].
4 +1. Understand what makes XWiki a [[second generation wiki>>doc:documentation.xs.user.get-started.second-generation-wiki.WebHome]].
5 +1. [[Try XWiki online>>doc:Hosted.WebHome]], or [[download>>doc:Download.WebHome]] and install your own instance.
6 +1. [[Create your first Page>>doc:documentation.xs.user.base.page.create-page.WebHome]].
7 +1. Your wiki opens on its [[Home page>>doc:documentation.xs.user.get-started.home-page.WebHome]], from where you navigate, create and manage your content, as follows:(((
8 +{{image reference="home-page.png" size="extra" alt="The Home page of a newly installed XWiki, showing the content area, the panels on both sides and the top menu" caption="The Home page in XWiki 17.10.11"/}}
8 8  )))
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1 1  == How can I organize my content in my wiki? ==
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3 -XWiki has its own [[content organization>>xwiki:documentation.xs.admin.base.content-organization.WebHome]].
3 +Content is organized as a hierarchy of [[nested Pages>>doc:documentation.xs.user.base.page.nested-pages.WebHome]], which you can rearrange at any time by moving or renaming a Page. See [[content organization>>doc:documentation.xs.admin.base.content-organization.WebHome]] for the full picture.
4 +
5 +== Do I need to install anything to try XWiki? ==
6 +
7 +No, you can use a [[hosted XWiki>>doc:Hosted.WebHome]] straight away. Installing your own instance is only needed when you want to run and keep your own wiki.
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2 -* [[Get Started (for developers)>>documentation.xs.dev.get-started.WebHome]].
3 -* [[XWiki project homepage>>xwiki:Main.WebHome]].
4 -* [[Testimonials Page>>Main.Feedback.Testimonials]].
1 +* [[XWiki project homepage>>doc:Main.WebHome]]
2 +* [[Testimonials>>doc:Main.Feedback.Testimonials]]
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1 1  == What is a wiki? ==
2 2  
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5 -#startfloatingbox() [[image:examples-wikis.png||height="350" alt="Examples showing different ways of XWiki being used"]]<br/>
6 -//4 examples of how XWiki is being used, clockwise from top left: <br/> as a website, as a collaborative knowledge base, as a collaborative <br/> intranet, as a public wiki and learning platform.//
7 -#endfloatingbox()
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3 +A [[wiki>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki]] is a collaborative platform where anyone can create, edit and organize content. On top of that, most wikis add access rights management and notifications.
10 10  
11 -A [[wiki>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki]] is a collaborative platform where anyone can create, edit, and organize content. On top of this basic feature set, most wikis include additional features such as access rights management and notifications.
5 +That flexibility covers a wide range of situations:
12 12  
13 -Thanks to their flexibility and ease of use, wikis can be used to address a wide range of situations:
7 +* Share knowledge: build a knowledge base, a product catalog or documentation.
8 +* Manage projects: organize events, develop products or set up new tools.
9 +* Collaborate and communicate: run a website, an intranet or an extranet for your team.
14 14  
15 -* Share knowledge: create a knowledge base, product catalog, or documentation.
16 -* Manage projects: organize events, develop products, or set up new tools.
17 -* Collaborate and communicate: serve as a website, intranet, or extranet for your team.
11 +A wiki is, in short, the central place where a team's information is stored and stays accessible to everyone who needs it.
18 18  
19 -In short, a wiki is a central hub for information is stored and kept accessible to everyone who needs it.
20 -
21 21  == What makes XWiki special? ==
22 22  
23 -XWiki is a [[second-generation wiki>>xwiki:documentation.xs.user.get-started.second-generation-wiki.WebHome]]. This means it's not only a traditional wiki, but also a powerful application development platform in its own right.
15 +XWiki is a [[second generation wiki>>doc:documentation.xs.user.get-started.second-generation-wiki.WebHome]]: besides writing Pages together, you can turn those Pages into applications, such as a FAQ, a task list or a set of product sheets, without programming.
24 24  
25 -While first-generation wikis focus on content collaboration (creating and editing pages together), second-generation wikis take this concept further by enabling users to build structured, collaborative web applications directly from within the wiki.
17 +{{image reference="examples-wikis.png" size="medium" alt="Four public websites built with XWiki, shown as thumbnails" caption="Four ways XWiki is used, clockwise from top left: as a website, as a collaborative knowledge base, as a collaborative intranet, and as a public wiki and learning platform."/}}
26 26  
27 -XWiki can be used both as a classic wiki and as an application platform. An application in XWiki is a set of Pages that adds new functionality to the wiki, such as a [[blog>>extensions:Extension.Blog Application]] or a [[task manager>>extensions:Extension.Task Manager Application]]. You can also build your own applications, for instance, you could create a FAQ or an application to manage product sheets, without requiring programming skills.
28 -
29 -This allows XWiki to be used for a variety of use cases, such as [[Projects Powered by XWiki>>References.WebHome]].
30 -
31 -
32 -
19 +See [[Projects Powered by XWiki>>doc:References.WebHome]] for what other teams have built.
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1 +== Is XWiki free? ==
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3 +XWiki is open source: the platform is distributed under the [[LGPL 2.1>>doc:Main.License]], and the wiki content it ships with under CC-BY.
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1 +A first generation wiki is focused on **content**. A second generation wiki adds **[[structure>>doc:documentation.xs.dev.data-model.WebHome]]**: the same Pages also hold typed data, which turns them into applications.
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6 -{{html wiki="true"}}
7 -<div class="row concept">
8 - <div class="col-md-9">
9 - <div class="row">
10 - <div class="col-sm-6"">
3 +XWiki is a second generation wiki, so a single wiki holds both your notes and the applications your team runs on.
11 11  
12 -== First generation wikis ==
5 +|=Generation|=Focused on|=What you get
6 +|First|Content|[[Page editing>>doc:documentation.xs.user.base.page.edit-page.WebHome]], [[version control>>doc:documentation.xs.user.base.page.view-page.view-history.WebHome]], [[rights>>doc:documentation.xs.admin.rights.WebHome]], [[search>>extensions:Extension.Search Application]] and [[exports>>doc:documentation.xs.user.exports.WebHome]].
7 +|Second|Structure and applications|Ready-made applications such as the [[Blog>>extensions:Extension.Blog Application.WebHome]], the [[File Manager>>extensions:Extension.File Manager Application]], [[Meetings>>extensions:Extension.Meeting Application]], [[Forums>>extensions:Extension.ForumApplication.WebHome]] and the [[Task Manager>>extensions:Extension.Task Manager Application]], plus the ones you build yourself with [[App Within Minutes>>extensions:Extension.App Within Minutes Application]].
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14 - {{info}}Focused on **content** creation{{/info}}. Some example of features:
15 - <ul class="features-grid">
16 - <li>
17 - <span class="fa fa-pencil"></span>
18 - <h4>[[Page editing>>documentation.xs.user.base.page.edit-page.WebHome]]</h4>
19 - <p>Use simple wiki syntax to format text, create tables, create links, display images, etc. Alternatively use a powerful WYSIWYG editor to edit the content of pages.</p>
20 - </li>
21 - <li>
22 - <span class="fa fa-archive"></span>
23 - <h4>[[Version Control>>documentation.xs.user.base.page.view-page.view-history.WebHome]]</h4>
24 - <p>Any change made in XWiki is saved under version control, meaning you can view any previous version of a page, compare different versions or rollback to any past version.</p>
25 - </li>
26 - <li>
27 - <span class="fa fa-lock"></span>
28 - <h4>[[Rights>>Documentation.UserGuide.Features.RightsManagement]]</h4>
29 - <p>Control who can view, edit or delete pages in a flexible manner. Apply rights to a page, its children or an entire wiki.</p>
30 - </li>
31 - <li>
32 - <span class="fa fa-search"></span>
33 - <h4>[[Search>>extensions:Extension.Search Application]]</h4>
34 - <p>Allows searching on the full wiki using wildcards, faceting search results, getting search result RSS feeds and more.</p>
35 - </li>
36 - <li>
37 - <span class="fa fa-exchange"></span>
38 - <h4>[[Exports>>Documentation.UserGuide.Features.Exports]]</h4>
39 - <p>Export wiki pages to PDF, ODT, RTF, XML or HTML.</p>
40 - </li>
41 - </ul>
42 - </div>
43 - <div class="col-sm-6"">
9 +== Why it matters ==
44 44  
45 -== Second generation wikis ==
11 +Most of the small applications a team needs are never built: developing one the traditional way costs more than the problem is worth, and by the time it ships the need has moved on. Chris Anderson's [[Long Tail>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail]] describes that same shape.
46 46  
47 - {{info}}Focused on **[[structure>>documentation.xs.dev.data-model.WebHome]]** and **application** creation (by editing wiki pages){{/info}}. Some examples of what can be created:
48 - <ul class="features-grid">
49 - <li>
50 - <span class="fa fa-rss"></span>
51 - <h4>[[Blog>>extensions:Extension.Blog Application]]</h4>
52 - <p>Host one or multiple blogs to communicate information or organize it using categories and tags.</p>
53 - </li>
54 - <li>
55 - <span class="fa fa-folder"></span>
56 - <h4>[[File Manager>>extensions:Extension.File Manager Application]]</h4>
57 - <p>Manage your folders and files, having viewers for many supported file types (such as office and PDF), displaying a tag cloud and allowing filtering. </p>
58 - </li>
59 - <li>
60 - <span class="fa fa-calendar"></span>
61 - <h4>[[Meetings>>extensions:Extension.Meeting Application]]</h4>
62 - <p>Organize meetings (create, view and modify meetings to come) and send invitations.</p>
63 - </li>
64 - <li>
65 - <span class="fa fa-comments"></span>
66 - <h4>[[Forums>>extensions:Extension.ForumApplication]]</h4>
67 - <p>Discuss important topics using multiple forums that support answers, comments and votes.</p>
68 - </li>
69 - <li>
70 - <span class="fa fa-list-alt"></span>
71 - <h4>[[Tasks>>extensions:Extension.Task Manager Application]]</h4>
72 - <p>Create and assign tasks for designated projects, with associated assignees and due dates.</p>
73 - </li>
74 - </ul>
75 - </div>
76 - </div>
77 - Today most of user's needs are not satisfied because it takes too long and it's too costly to develop small applications. On the other hand, a second generation wiki like XWiki is a perfect platform for this. **XWiki is the toolkit for the web**!
78 - </div>
79 - <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3">
80 - <div class="w-sectionbox first">
81 - <h4>Did you know?</h4>
82 - <div class="w-sectionbox">
83 - Chris Anderson introduced the concept of [[Long Tail>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail]].
13 +{{image reference="xwiki-long-tail.png" size="large" alt="A long tail chart of application cost against number of applications, with a small red area covered by the standard development process and a much larger yellow tail labelled as XWiki's market" caption="Applying the Long Tail to application development."/}}
84 84  
85 - <p>
86 - [[image:xwiki-long-tail.png>>attach:xwiki-long-tail.png]]
87 - Applying it to XWiki gives the above diagram.
88 - </p>
89 -
90 - <p>What it means is that there are 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).</p>
91 - <p>Building them traditionally would take too long, reducing their value over time. XWiki provides a cost-effective solution, enabling non-developers to create these applications quickly and organically, maximizing their impact.</p>
92 - </div>
93 - </div>
94 - </div>
95 -</div>
96 -{{/html}}
15 +The red area is what conventional development covers. The yellow tail, far larger, is the applications that are too small or needed too quickly to justify it. A second generation wiki puts that tail within reach of the people who need it.
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3 +No, [[App Within Minutes>>extensions:Extension.App Within Minutes Application]] lets you define an application's fields, forms and views from the wiki interface, without writing code.
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1 -* [[Extensions sub-wiki>>extensions:Main.WebHome]].
1 +* [[Applications>>doc:documentation.xs.user.applications.WebHome]]
2 2  * [[App Within Minutes>>extensions:Extension.App Within Minutes Application]]
3 -* [[Applications>>extensions:Main.WebHome]]
4 4  * [[Extension Manager>>extensions:Extension.Extension Manager Application]]
5 -* [[Programming features>>Documentation.UserGuide.Features.Programming]]
6 -* [[Developer's Guide>>Documentation.DevGuide.WebHome]]
4 +* [[Extensions wiki>>extensions:Main.WebHome]]
5 +* [[Developer documentation>>doc:documentation.xs.dev.WebHome]]
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1 +The Home page is divided into the following areas, numbered on the screenshot:
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3 -{{image reference="home-page.png" size="extra" alt="The XWiki Standard home page, each page area being highlighted and numbered"/}}
3 +{{image reference="home-page.png" size="extra" alt="The XWiki Home page, with each area highlighted and numbered" caption="The Home page areas in XWiki 17.10.11"/}}
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5 -|=#|Page Areas|=Feature/Action|=Description
6 -|(% rowspan="4" %)1|(% rowspan="4" %)Create, Edit, Follow, More Action Menu|Create|You can [[create Pages>>documentation.xs.user.base.page.create-page.WebHome]]. You can also create hierarchies of Pages called [[nested Pages>>xwiki:documentation.xs.user.base.page.nested-pages.WebHome]].
7 -| |Edit|You can [[edit a Page>>xwiki:documentation.xs.user.base.page.edit-page.WebHome]]. Each time you save your edits, a new version of the Page is created and stored in the [[Page history>>xwiki:documentation.xs.user.base.page.view-page.view-history.WebHome]]. XWiki provides multiple editors for [[simple and advanced editing>>xwiki:documentation.xs.user.base.page.edit-page.simple-advanced.WebHome]].
8 -| |Follow|You can [[follow a Page>>extensions:Extension.Notifications Application.WebHome||anchor="HWatchedEntities"]], which allows you to receive [[notifications>>extensions:Extension.Notifications Application.WebHome]] when the Page is updated.
9 -| |More Action Menu|Provides [[additional actions>>xwiki:documentation.xs.user.base.page.view-page.more-action-menu.WebHome]] such as exporting, printing, watching, renaming, deleting, or moving the Page. You can access some of the available Page operations through this menu.
5 +|=#|=Page Areas|=Feature/Action|=Description
6 +|(% rowspan="4" %)1|(% rowspan="4" %)Create, Edit, Follow, More Action Menu|Create|You can [[create Pages>>doc:documentation.xs.user.base.page.create-page.WebHome]], including hierarchies of Pages called [[nested Pages>>doc:documentation.xs.user.base.page.nested-pages.WebHome]].
7 +|Edit|You can [[edit a Page>>doc:documentation.xs.user.base.page.edit-page.WebHome]] using [[several editors>>doc:documentation.xs.user.base.page.edit-page.simple-advanced.WebHome]]. Each save creates a new version of the Page in its [[history>>doc:documentation.xs.user.base.page.view-page.view-history.WebHome]].
8 +|Follow|You can [[follow a Page>>extensions:Extension.Notifications Application.WebHome||anchor="HWatchedEntities"]] to receive [[notifications>>extensions:Extension.Notifications Application.WebHome]] when it is updated.
9 +|More Action Menu|Provides [[additional actions>>doc:documentation.xs.user.base.page.view-page.more-action-menu.WebHome]] on the Page, such as exporting, printing, renaming, moving or deleting it.
10 10  |2|Page Content and Title|Edit, View|Both the content and the title of a Page can be modified.
11 -|3|Breadcrumb|Navigation|Displays the [[hierarchy of the current Page>>xwiki:documentation.xs.user.base.page.view-page.breadcrumb.WebHome]] within the Wiki, allowing you to [[navigate>>xwiki:documentation.xs.user.base.page.ways-navigate-page.WebHome]] to parent Pages or other Pages easily.
12 -|4|After Content Header|Display metadata|By default, it displays information about who and when was the Page last modified. This area can be configured to display other additional information.
13 -|5|Content Footer|Display metadata| At the end of the Page content, it displays by default the [[Likes>>xwiki:documentation.xs.user.like.WebHome]], tags and metadata about the creation author and date.
14 -|6|[[Page Extra Area>>documentation.xs.user.base.page.view-page.page-extra-area.WebHome]]|Tabs|The area at the bottom of the Page contains tabs by default:(((
15 -* [[Comments>>documentation.xs.user.base.page.view-page.comments-tab.add-comments-page.WebHome]], to facilitate discussion and feedback,
16 -* [[Attachments>>xwiki:Documentation.UserGuide.Features.DocumentLifecycle.WebHome||anchor="HAttachments"]],
17 -* [[Page History>>documentation.xs.user.base.page.view-page.view-history.history-tab.WebHome]], to provide access to the Page’s previous versions,
18 -* [[Page Information>>documentation.xs.user.base.page.view-page.information-tab.WebHome]], to displays metadata about the Page.
11 +|3|Breadcrumb|Navigation|Displays the [[hierarchy of the current Page>>doc:documentation.xs.user.base.page.view-page.breadcrumb.WebHome]], so you can [[navigate>>doc:documentation.xs.user.base.page.ways-navigate-page.WebHome]] to its parent or to other Pages.
12 +|4|After Content Header|Display metadata|Displays who last modified the Page and when. It can be configured to display further information.
13 +|5|Content Footer|Display metadata|Displays the [[Likes>>doc:documentation.xs.user.like.WebHome]], the tags, and the creation author and date.
14 +|6|[[Page Extra Area>>doc:documentation.xs.user.base.page.view-page.page-extra-area.WebHome]]|Tabs|The area at the bottom of the Page, which contains these tabs by default:(((
15 +* [[Comments>>doc:documentation.xs.user.base.page.view-page.comments-tab.WebHome]], to discuss the Page and give feedback,
16 +* [[Attachments>>doc:Documentation.UserGuide.Features.Attachments]], to manage the files attached to the Page,
17 +* [[History>>doc:documentation.xs.user.base.page.view-page.view-history.history-tab.WebHome]], to reach the Page's previous versions,
18 +* [[Information>>doc:documentation.xs.user.base.page.view-page.information-tab.WebHome]], to display the Page's metadata.
19 19  )))
20 -|7|Top Menu (Right)|Menu Actions/Navigation|You can [[search through the wiki>>extensions:Extension.Search Application||anchor="HSearchSuggest"]], open the [[Alert menu>>extensions:Extension.Notifications Application.WebHome]], and [[view your user profile>>xwiki:documentation.xs.user.user.view-user-profile.WebHome]].
21 -|8|Drawer Menu|Menu Options|By expanding the [[drawer menu>>xwiki:documentation.xs.user.base.drawer-menu.WebHome]], you can perform global actions.
22 -|9|Panels|Navigation|[[Panels>>extensions:Extension.Panels Application]] are displayed on both sides of the Page. By default:(((
23 -* On the left:
24 -** “Applications” panel,
25 -** “Navigation” panel
26 -* On the right:
27 -** “Tips” panel,
28 -** “My Recent Modifications” panel,
29 -** “Need Help?” panel
30 -)))
20 +|7|Top Menu (Right)|Menu Actions/Navigation|You can [[search the wiki>>extensions:Extension.Search Application||anchor="HSearchSuggest"]], open the Alert menu to read your [[notifications>>extensions:Extension.Notifications Application.WebHome]], and reach [[your user profile>>doc:documentation.xs.user.user.view-user-profile.WebHome]].
21 +|8|Drawer Menu|Menu Options|Expanding the [[drawer menu>>doc:documentation.xs.user.base.drawer-menu.WebHome]] gives access to the global actions.
22 +|9|Panels|Navigation|[[Panels>>extensions:Extension.Panels Application]] are displayed on both sides of the Page. By default, the "Applications" and "Navigation" panels are on the left, and the "Tips", "My Recent Modifications" and "Need Help?" panels are on the right.
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1 -== Do you want to get in touch with the community? ==
1 +== Where can I get help with my wiki? ==
2 2  
3 -If you need more help with your wiki or want to connect with other users, visit the [[support Page>>xwiki:Main.Support]]. There you’ll find information on: Community support and Professional support.
3 +The [[support Page>>doc:Main.Support]] lists both the community support channels and the professional support offers.
4 +
5 +== Can the Home page be changed? ==
6 +
7 +Yes, the Home page is an ordinary Page: you can edit its content, and an administrator can change which [[Panels>>extensions:Extension.Panels Application]] surround it.
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1 -* [[Complete list of features>>xwiki:Documentation.UserGuide.Features.WebHome]].
1 +* [[Complete list of features>>doc:Documentation.UserGuide.Features.WebHome]]
2 +* [[Ways to Navigate to a Page>>doc:documentation.xs.user.base.page.ways-navigate-page.WebHome]]
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1 -org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-flamingo-skin-resources
1 +xwiki:org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-flamingo-skin-resources
Aug 10, 2026, 11:02:49 PM

Approved by Eleni Cojocariu

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