1.
BlueSpice free
The Free Open Source Enterprise Wiki

2.
Editing in the wiki is much
too complicated!
MediaWiki‘s layout doesn´t
look good!
Pimp your MediaWiki
with
Satisfy the user requirements
No data migration
New look , improved usability
Easy editing with WYSIWYG
Free basic version
Better quality- and process management
Comfortable administration
Professional search
(Facets and Search-as-you-type)

3.
Extend Flexibly
BlueSpice enhances the functionality of MediaWiki

4.
Fields of Application
BlueSpice is particularly suitable for company use
Handbooks and
Online Documentation
 Instruction manuals and
documentationen of
technical systems
 User manuals and
references
 IT documentation
 Documentation of custom
engineered configurations
 Documentation of technical
standards
Organization and
Process Documentation
 Organization handbooks
 Central collection of
operating instructions
 Central information about
people, working groups and
their expertise
 Minutes of meetings
Knowledge Management
 Providing initial information
effectively and directly for
your colleagues
 Linking company locations
and departments
 Spread knowledge about
customers, products and
processes
 Collect experiences (best
practices)
 Central access to existing
documents
 Professional search in
different stocks of knowledge

5.
Fields of Application
BlueSpice is particularly suitable for company use
Public Relations
Special Interest Platform
 Assembly point for project
knowledge, expert knowhow, special sections for
new technology, products,
strategies and debates
 Target group oriented
knowledge platform
(politics, culture,
knowledge, entertainment,
health, lifestyle...)
 Work and documentation
platform for supporting
conferences, open
workshops or BarCamps
 Cooperation platforms for
technology partners (joint
ventures)
 Make knowledge available
for the press, bloggers and
others disseminating
information
 Central knowledge base for
organizations, foundations
and NGOs
Support and Helpdesk
 Collaborative stores of
solutions for service desk
workers
 Solution oriented documentation of malfunctions
and their solutions
 Comprehensive knowledge
base for first, second and
third level technical support

6.
Professional Editing
Create articles easily
BlueSpice provides you with
 a visual editor (WYSIWG)
 dialogues for easy uploading and inserting
images and files
 functionalities for simple inserting links and categories
 features for formatting tables

7.
WYSIWYG Editor
You never have to use the wiki code again
Insert images, links, files,
MagicWords and categories,
use text formatting functions
and create tables

8.
Uploading and Inserting
Simply use of images and documents in the wiki
Searching for images
Insert images and
define size, adjustment, linking and
caption
Did you know?
Use the package [paste image] to insert
images with drag & drop.
Upload new images
without leaving the article

9.
Creating Structures
Links and categories are the basis of a wiki
Link internal and
external pages
Insert existing categories
or create new ones

10.
MagicWords
Get to know how to use special wiki tags
Wikicode, partially with
examples, that will be
added to the article
Choose between tags, behaviour
switches and variables
Brief description with an
explanation of the
functionality

11.
Customize Your Wiki
Define layout, design and usability according to your needs
BlueSpice enables you to
 customize skins and layout according to your
corporate identity
 fold in and out the main navigation
 define your own user navigation (Focus)
 arrange your own user dashboard
 compose your special toolbox with different widgets
 define your preferences

12.
User account with user specific
pages and preferences
Individually
arrangable toolbox
with useful links
and functions
Three-part navigation
to fold in and out with
individually composable
user focus
Authors with avatars as
profile pictures
Shoutbox for comments and
messages concerning the article

13.
Flexible Navigation
Possibility to fold in and out
Choose between main
navigation, individual user
focus or admin navigation

14.
Everything at a Glance
Watch an article
Page specific actions
Widgets that can be put together individually with
functions, tools, important links and information

15.
The User Area on the Spot
User-specific actions and functionalities
Notifications and
reviews at a glance
Login and Logout
Provides personal tasks, user-specifiy
preferences and special pages

16.
Individual Dashboard
News, statistics and more – put together relevant information
and arrange the with drag and drop

17.
Get Information
Find content and get meta information to keep an overview
 Statistics and diagrams about wiki-internal actions
 Professional search with autocomplete,
faceted search and search-as-you-type
 Notification systems for information
on-demand
 Information about the article at a glance

18.
StateBar
Everything I need to know about an article
Who has recently changed the article and when took
the last edit place
Recent changes
Link to similar
articles (system
provided)
Quality assurance: Information about responsible
editors and review processes

19.
Get Statistics
Display statistics in an
graphical output by choosing
the data base, period and
further settings

20.
Quick Finding
Your search query will be auto completed and first results will
be shown while you are typing
Search like in Google
Sort and filter
search results
Fulltext search
also in attached
files
Did you know?
You can connect the search with
Wordpress & SharePoint.
Create or propose articles

21.
Central notifications
Notifications about
what is going on in
the wiki
Define preferences
for your notifications

22.
RSS-Export
Your news ticker for changes
Did you know?
With the package [bookmaker] you can
create books and export them as PDF.
Subscribe to reports
you want to be
informed about

23.
Processes and Quality
Ensure content quality and control workflows
 Checkboxes and checklists for tasks
 Workflows for collaborative quality assurance
 Page templates for standardised structure
 Responsible editors as an expert contact
 Versioning of the changes (history)

24.
Create Checklists
Use the WYSIWYG editor to insert
checkboxes or checklists
Recently used lists
will be shown above

25.
Starting Workflows
On a special page you get an
overview of all existing
workflows
Create workflows for an
article with a date for start
and end
Did you know?
Extend your workflow functionalities
with the package [teamwork].

26.
Responsible Editors
Assign responsibilites for an article
The responsible editors
are viewed with their
profile pictures in the
state bar
Assign one or more
responsible editors

27.
Versioning
Keep track of all changes
Compare versions and display
all changes and modifications
Did you know?
See all changes at a glance and
coloured with [visual diff] .
Versions with timestamp, author
and bytes

28.
Page Templates
Pre-structuring of content helps to implement standards
Choose a template when
creating a new page
Create new templates and
administrate them on a special
page

29.
Pleasure for Administrators
We improved all administration dialogues to help you with the
„gardening“
 An admin dashboard informs about important changes
 The permissions are structured clearly
 Search for users in the user management
 Adjust the skin easily with FlexiSkin

30.
Overview in the Admin Dashboard
Portlets provide meta information
about the wiki
Add new portlets
Change the order
with drag & drop
Define settings for
the portlets

31.
Clear Permission Management
Wiki-wide permissions
Choose a group
and define rights
Inheritance of rights
are marked with colour

32.
Comprehensive User Management
Use filters to sort users and find
them quickly

33.
Preferences
For every extension
You can find all the
preferences for every
extension in the drop-down
menues here

34.
Flexible Design
Change colours,
sizes and logo
Live-preview
displays all
changes

35.
Special Pages
BlueSpice enhances the MediaWiki pages for the maintenance
of the wiki
BlueSpice special pages
for wiki gardeners,
e.g.Extended Statistics
Did you know?
Use the extension [superlist] to get
meta infrmation on your wiki.

36.
Charged Packages
Expand BlueSpice according to your needs
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