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

JIRA Extension 11.1.5 Released

The JIRA 11.1.5 has been released. This version fixes an error in the JIRA count macro when the server URL ends with a slash, and ensures the configuration page is no longer hidden due to deprecated property usage.

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).

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.


Powered by XWiki

USH

USH use XWiki to manage their resources, which are organized by themes. Panels, tags and livetables are used for navigation. The advanced search capabilities with filters make it easy to find the appropriate resources.
XWiki is also used to promote the H'Expo congress and salon. On a dedicated wiki you can find the event program, reports, a photo / video section, as well as a registration area for participants.

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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