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
XWiki 18.5.0 Release Candidate 1 Released
The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 18.5.0RC1.
This release brings an improved look & feel for Live Data, as well as accessibility improvements of the navigation panel. This release also fixes a number of security issues, with the highest severity being 9.3/10.
See the release notes for more information. …
Guided Tour Extension 0.1 Released
The Guided Tour extension v0.1 has been released. …
XWiki 18.4.1 released
The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 18.4.1. This is a bug fix release containing important fixes. This release contains security fixes, with the highest severity being 9.3/10. See the release notes for more information. …
Wiki Link URL Normalizer Extension 1.10.0 Released
The Wiki Link URL Normalizer 1.10.0 has been released. This version adds support for normalizing local URLs that contain anchors (URL fragments). …
Favorites Application 1.4.3 Released
The Favorites Application Extension 1.4.3 have been released. …
MyXWiki.org upgraded to 18.4.0
[[myxwiki.org>>https://myxwiki.org/]] has been upgraded to XWiki 18.4.0. If you own a wiki hosted there, you should have a look at the [[release notes for this version>>xwiki:ReleaseNotes.Data.XWiki.18\.4\.0.WebHome]]. Your wiki might not yet be fully upgraded, but it will eventually be, automatically in the background. It should still be usable in the meantime (some new features and improvements listed in the release note might just not yet be visible), but page save might be slower than usual while the upgrades are running. …
Cristal Integration 1.7.0 Released
The Cristal Integration extension 1.7.0 has been released. This version updates Cristal to version 1.4.0-1. You can refer to Cristal's release notes for a more exhaustive list of changes. Note that this version is not compatible with version 2.21 of OpenID Connect Provider, which should hopefully be fixed in the next release. …
Cristal 1.4.0 and 1.4.0-1 Released
Cristal 1.4.0 is now released. This is a bug fix release that brings mainly some accessibility fixes and dependency upgrades. See the release notes for more details. …
XWiki 17.10.9 Released
The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 17.10.9. This is a bug fix release. It 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
