XWiki - The Advanced Open Source Enterprise and Application Wiki

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The Advanced Open-Source Enterprise Wiki

Learn about XWiki's concept and why it's an alternative to Confluence and MediaWiki

Features

Why use XWiki?

Developed for more than 20 years, XWiki is being used by many high profile companies as:

  • Knowledge base
  • Collaborative intranet
  • Public website
  • Business applications
    … or other use cases.

XWiki Projects

XWiki offers a generic platform for developing projects and collaborative applications using the wiki paradigm.

  • Platform 
  • Flavors 
  • Extensions 

All XWiki software is developed in Java and under the LGPL open source license. In order to see all our projects please visit the forge.

XWiki Extensions

Over 900 extensions: applications, macros, skins, plugins, themes, etc.

XWiki Cristal

A new XWiki.org experimental project to provide a modern knowledge base front-end

A modern front-end designed to plug into XWiki, GitHub, or local environments.

Use it online, locally, or as an embedded component. Full support for offline editing with smart synchronization.

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Latest Blog Posts

Prism.js Macro Extension 1.3 Released

The Prism.js Macro 1.3 has been released. It makes the highlighted code meet the WCAG AA contrast ratio and fixes some security issues, so upgrading is recommended. …

Change Request Application Extension 1.25 Released

The Change Request Application 1.25 has been released. The error reported when storing changes in a change request fails now includes the reason of the failure. …

MCP Server Extension 0.11 Released

The LLM extension 0.11 has been released. It contains security fixes with the highest severity of 7.4/10, per-page rights checks and a one-time re-index for collections over wiki pages, opt-in guest access for the MCP endpoint, and a trust check on the MCP configuration. …

XWiki 18.9.0 Release Candidate 1 released

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 18.9.0RC1. This release improves Live Data (entries are saved automatically and keep their positions while editing), lets you edit Code macros in place in the experimental BlockNote editor, which now shows the same realtime edit actions as the WYSIWYG editor, and asks for a confirmation before performing an export opened from a link. For developers, there are new pickers for one or more locations, export format handlers, new Live Data APIs and plain CSS skin customizations. This release contains security fixes, with the highest severity being 9.3/10. See the release notes for more information. …

AntiSpam Tool Application Extension 1.13 Released

The AntiSpam Tool Application 1.13 has been released. It adds navigation in the list of events, fixes several security issues and now reads the last entry of the X-Forwarded-For header by default. …

Documentation Extension 1.18 Released

The Documentation extension 1.18 has been released. It lets documentation pages hold content fragments that other pages display with the new Content Fragment macro, stops renaming a documentation page from logging an error, and fixes false reports from the verb, video attachment and Related link label checks. …

Release Notes Extension 2.8 Released

The Release Notes Application 2.8 has been released. It lets changes and release notes be updated over the REST API and from scripts, makes concurrent additions to a release note safe, extends the Java API, and brings a series of security fixes. …

OAuth2 and OpenID Connect Extension 2.29.0 Released

The OAuth2 and OpenID Connect Extension 2.29.0 has been released. It makes authentication work from several browser tabs at the same time, adds configurable timeouts to the requests sent to the provider, and adds CORS support to the provider endpoints meant to be called by JavaScript clients. …

Wiki Link URL Normalizer Extension 1.10.2 Released

The Wiki Link URL Normalizer 1.10.2 has been released. It fixes the errors logged when moving or renaming pages while a URL normalizer filter has no link reference pattern. …

XWiki 18.4.7 Released

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 18.4.7. This is a bug fix release. This release contains security fixes, with the highest severity being 9.3/10. See the release notes for more information. …


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Lenovo

Lenovo uses XWiki as an on-premises platform to host its technical support community and internal knowledge base. The platform supports over 7,000 users and 7,000 pages, providing access control, content history, attachments, comments, and custom features like ratings and user-friendly login. XWiki is also integrated with third-party analytics tools for performance tracking. The system is designed to be scalable, extensible, and compliant with data privacy regulations such as GDPR.

Testimonials

“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.” Patrick Masson's X account
Patrick Masson, General Manager OSI
“I've been a follower of XWiki [...] have tried pushing it on anyone considering confluence; it's one of the few open source projects that I know of that actually has more features and work in it than most of its commercial counterparts” IRC Archive of this testimonial
Marc Mercer, CEO of CT-Unlimited
“We've been pleased and impressed with the power and flexibility XWiki has provided. Everything we've wanted to build with our wiki-based product been possible due to XWiki's well planned architecture.”
Mike Hoolehan, CTO @vCalc LLC

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