Welcome to the XWiki Community farm
Offer
MyXWiki.org is a free service offered by XWiki SAS for non-profit organizations and individuals. It's subject to the rules and limitations listed below.
For more elaborate needs, XWiki SAS offers XWiki Cloud and professional hosting and support services. Organizations evaluating wikis can also download a standard distribution of XWiki for this purpose.
What is it for?
The farm is open to individuals and non-profit organizations to create wikis on. However the target users are mostly technical people who can support themselves. This farm should never be used for critical wikis. For that consider using XWiki Cloud by XWiki SAS.
What is it not?
It’s important to realize that myxwiki.org is not for testing XWiki! It’s a farm for real projects that are non-business oriented (non-profit organizations and individuals). But it’s maintenance work for the XWiki developers of the xwiki project (to create the wikis, to remove them after you’ve finished using them, to answer questions, etc) and all this time it taken from the development of XWiki itself. So we prefer to reserve myxwiki.org for real usage and not for testing.
If you what you need is testing XWiki, you have 3 solutions:
- Try the XWiki.org Playground
- Download and install XWiki on your machine (there's a very simple demo distribution that only requires to unzip a file)
- Test XWiki on XWiki Cloud
Rules & Limitations
This community farm is subject to the following rules:
- No support warranty. All support is done on the XWiki Forum by the community.
- No stability warranty. We install the latest milestone version of XWiki on this farm and we use it as a stability test for the XWiki development team.
- No uptime warranty. It’s possible the farm will be down a few days in a row although we’ll do the maximum so that it doesn’t happen.
- No performance warranty. This farm is hosting a lot of wikis and they share the same XWiki instance so it's possible that you wiki will be slow.
- No upgrade help. You'll need to handle that yourself when we upgrade the XWiki instance for this farm.
- It's your duty to keep your wiki healthy and to avoid having it use too many resources (CPU and memory). This means avoiding using costly scripts and properly securing your wiki to avoid spam users and spam comments. Your wiki may be closed if it's not abiding by this rule.
- You don't have Programming Rights on your wiki for security reasons. This means you cannot install Extensions requiring Programming Rights or Extensions installing JARs, nor use privileged APIs inside scripts in wiki pages.
- You won't be able to create subwikis.
Register your wiki
FAQ
- What's the difference with XWiki SAS Cloud?
- How do I remove my wiki?
- Who is the legal entity behind MyXWiki?
- What about Copyright and Intellectual Property?
- What about Privacy Policy?
- What is MyXWiki.org running with
What's the difference with XWiki SAS Cloud?
| Feature/Service | myxwiki.org | XWiki SAS Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Who can use it? | Non-profit organizations and individuals | Anyone |
| Target audience | Mostly technical people who can support themselves | Anyone including non technical users |
| Cost | Free | Paying (starting at 10€/month), 50% discounts for NGO and free for open source projects. You can test XWiki for free during 10 day and self-extend twice, which amounts to total of 30 days of free testing. You can get an even longer evaluation period by contacting XWiki SAS after your first month. |
| Uptime | No uptime (can be down at any time and for several days) | Guaranteed by SLA |
| Version of XWiki | Non-stable version of XWiki, the farm is used as a real life test bad for newer versions of XWiki | Stable and recommended versions of XWiki |
| Support | By the community, on a will basis (works best if you help others too), no reponse time guarantees | By dedicated professionals, guaranteed by SLA |
| Performance | No performance warranty. This farm is hosting a lot of wikis and they share the same XWiki instance so it's possible that you wiki will be slow. | Dedicated XWiki instance |
| Volumes | Fair use. It's your duty to keep your wiki healthy and to avoid having it use too many resources (CPU and memory). This means avoiding using costly scripts and properly securing your wiki to avoid spam users and spam comments. Your wiki may be closed if it's not abiding by this rule. | Guaranteed volumes |
| Sub wikis | No subwiki | Subwikis allowed |
| Permissions | No programming rights, which means you cannot install Extensions requiring Programming Rights or Extensions depending on JARs, nor use privileged APIs inside scripts in wiki pages. Scripting languages other than Velocity are not allowed (Groovy, Python, Ruby, etc) | Programming Rights provided |
| Upgrades | No upgrade help. You'll need to handle that yourself when we upgrade the XWiki instance for this farm | Regular upgrades & custom upgrade plans |
How do I remove my wiki?
If you don't need your wiki anymore, send a post on the XWiki Forum to ask for deletion by mentioning:
- The wiki id
- Your user id (you must be the wiki owner to ask for deletion)
We will then contact you privately on the forum to ask confirmation questions to make sure you're the owner of that wiki and then we'll proceed to remove it!
Who is the legal entity behind MyXWiki?
The MyXWiki.org farm is managed by the XWiki.org community under the defined Governance. In particular, administrators for this farm are chosen among the XWiki Committers (see Current list of active committers). Currently there is no organization, foundation or other form of association that groups all XWiki's committers into an legal entity.
MyXWiki.org farm is sponsored and hosted by XWiki SAS, which is a legal entity and it's registered in the Trade and Companies' Register of Paris under the number 477 865 281. XWiki SAS's administrative headquarters are located at: XWiki SAS, 35/37 rue Beaubourg, 75003 Paris, France.
What about Copyright and Intellectual Property?
This farm is governed by French and International legislation on copyright and intellectual property. Each wiki owner is responsible for their own content. Also the target of this farm are non-profit organizations and individuals, so the generated wiki should not be used for commercial purposes.
What about Privacy Policy?
The wiki's visibility (public, private) is handled by the wiki owner. Each wiki's data is managed by the wiki owner. The information (wiki name, description) that are given during the registration step are publicly available. We don't distribute the registration e-mail to third-parties, but the email is needed in case we need to contact you about your wiki.
MyXWiki.org farm is using functionality and preferences cookies (examples: authentication cookies - for when the users log in so that they don't have to log in again every time they connect to the site; language cookies - remembering the selected language).
MyXWiki.org farm doesn't uses third-party analytics tools and plug-ins. Still, each wiki owner can customize their wiki and install third-party tools as extensions.
The wiki also sends an ping to xwiki.org every day, in order to gather anonymous statistics. This allows to generate the Active Install Dashboard.
MyXWiki.org farm stores server log files for debugging purposes.
MyXWiki.org administrators have technical access to wikis and use that access only for maintenance reasons of the farm.
XWiki.org community and XWiki SAS are not using any information and data gathered by the MyXWiki.org farm.
What is MyXWiki.org running with
You can find more details about the MyXWiki.org setup and hardware on the Infra page.