XWiki: Collaborative web applications the wiki way

Collaborative Web Applications the wiki way Anca Luca November <Web />, Iasi, 21 nov 2009

What is a wiki? « A wiki is a software for managing the content of a website by making all its pages freely and easily modifiable by all its users. Wikis are used to enable collaboration on writing documents with minimal constraints. » (Wikipedia) ● web environment ● easy linking ● wiki syntax ● versioning system ● built for collaboration than for presentation

How is XWiki special then? eXtensible enterprise Wiki Platform

XWiki is an enterprise wiki ● Why wiki in enterprise? ● to improve collaboration on the enterprise knowledge and manage it in a dynamic, interlinked way, easily accessible for everyone in the team according to their interest ● Special needs in the enterprise ● Organization, access, security ● Integration with enterprise tools ● Rich editing and presentational features ● Multiple content types management ● Extensibility for dedicated purposes

XWiki Features

Organized and accessible information ● Documents with comments and attachments organized in spaces and hierarchies ● Tags, parent documents, backlinks, statistics ● Search in documents, attachments, tags, with ranking and advances queries ● Versioning of documents and attachments ● Export and import of XWiki documents archives for transport or backup

Security ● Fine grained access rules (per space, page, actions, groups, ...) ● LDAP / Active Directory integration

Multi-Polyglotism ● Multiple wiki Syntaxes ● XWiki 1.0, new XWiki 2.0 ● Confluence, TWiki, Creole, JSPWiki, etc ● Multiple user languages ● 21 languages as of today ● easy to manage document translations ● Multiple scripting languages ● Velocity, Groovy, Ruby, Jython, PHP

Rich Content Management ● Wide range of syntax macros ● table of contents, footnotes, LaTeX formulae, charts, RSS etc ● Extensible macros ● Advanced WYSIWYG editor ● full integration with the wiki syntax, rendered macros ● Office and Excel documents import ● Professional PDF export ● advanced formatting preserved, title page and table of contents automatically generated

Customizable Look & Feel

Custom document metadata & view

And more... ● Comprehensive changes notifications by email ● Invitation manager ● Statistics ● WebDAV access ● Extensible rendering of valid XHTML ● Job Scheduler ● Activity stream plugin ● ...

For the future ● WCAG validity ● Annotations on documents ● Real-time WYSIWYG editing ● OpenID Authentication ● Open Social integration ● Extensions manager ● P2P synchronized wikis (XWiki Concerto) ● ...

XWiki: eXtensible wiki

XWiki is an application wiki ● WAAP = Wiki as a platform ● structure ● programming ● development of situational applications

Structured data Class editor Object editor

XWiki - scripting ● Scripts are written in XWiki documents ● Velocity, Groovy, Ruby, Jython, PHP ● Applications are built in the browser ● Also, server side extensions

XWiki Application Tools ● XWiki API ● Skin extensions and JavaScript extensions ● Builtin macros to display your custom data ● e.g. the livetable ● Export tools to distribute your XWiki Application ● Color Theme editor to create your custom XWiki theme

XWiki Applications: Blog

XWiki Applications: Meeting Manager

XWiki Applications: Forum

XWiki Applications: Task Manager

How do I get XWiki?

XWiki is an Open Source project ● LGPL licence ● Download from http://www.xwiki.org ● Development process in the open: ● Sources at http://svn.xwiki.org (15 active committers) ● Bug tracker at http://jira.xwiki.org ● Mailing lists at devs@xwiki.org (370 members), users@xwiki.org (577 members)

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