XWiki Platform presentation at November Web 2009

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

2. 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

3. How is XWiki special then?
eXtensible enterprise Wiki Platform

4. 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

5. XWiki Features

6. 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

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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Customizable Look & Feel

11. Customizable Look & Feel

12. Custom document metadata & view

13. Custom document metadata & view

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

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

16. XWiki: eXtensible wiki

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

18. Structured data
Class editor Object editor

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

20. 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

21. XWiki Applications: Blog

22. XWiki Applications: Meeting Manager

23. XWiki Applications: Forum

24. XWiki Applications: Task Manager

25. How do I get XWiki?

26. 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)

27. XWiki SAS is a Service Company
● Founded in 2004
● 26 Employees in France, Romania, Sri Lanka
10 of them in the Iasi office!
● International research projects
2 finished, 1 running, 1 to be started
● Clients in Europe and the US:
EMC, AFP, Mandriva, Aelia, Curriki, Socracy, ...
● 25K downloads/month
.. more on http://www.xwiki.com

28. XWiki SAS Services
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29. Q & A

30. Thank you!