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.
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. …
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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The Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (HLS) uses XWiki as the core platform to manage its editorial processes and multilingual content. To meet the project's complex requirements, 3 distinct workflows were developed to support the creation of articles, multimedia content, translations, and references, as well as the review, approval, and publication steps. XWiki handles the document structure through customized macros, while Jira is integrated to track the editorial workflow.
To streamline editing, the macros have been enhanced for inline editing within the WYSIWYG editor. This allows editors to work on multiple documents simultaneously and view them in their final layout context.
XWiki also supports a powerful search experience for users. Articles can be found using filters by theme, place, person, family, date, location, and lexicographical order. Users can search directly through input fields or refine results with facets. The same approach is applied to multimedia elements, with filters available by type, date, and location.
To ensure efficient multilingual search, a custom Solr indexer was implemented. This allows the platform to handle both language-dependent and language-independent metadata, making it easier to manage and retrieve content across all required languages, regardless of the data's complexity.
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
