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XWiki Enterprise is a professional wiki with enterprise features such as Blog, strong rights management, LDAP authentication, PDF export, full skining and more. It also includes an advanced Form and scripting engine making it a development environment for data-based applications. It has powerful extensibility features such as scripting in pages, plugins and a highly modular architecture. See the full feature list for mo

What is a wiki and what can it be used for?

A wiki is a website that you can edit online easily.

Whenever you want to modify a page, click on the "edit" button, make your changes and save the page. The modified page now replaces the previous version. This makes it easy to update the website and have people contribute content. Each version of the page is stored in the page history and can be reverted to if needed.

On top of this basic feature set, most wikis include additional features such as access rights management and notifications.

The core advantage of a wiki compared with traditional Content Management Systems and ECM lies in its flexibility and the ease with which new pages can be added and linked to.

Thanks to their flexibility and ease of use, wikis can be used to address a wide range of situations:

• Share information about a given topic (knowledge base, product catalog, documentation)
• Manage a project (organize an event, create a product, setup a new tool)
• Communicate with other people (as a website, an intranet or an extranet)
• And much more!

  Basically, a wiki can be used whenever you want to use a flexible platform to centralize information and share it with other people. It comes as a handy replacement to email when many-to-many communication takes place and information needs to be made available to every participant in one place.

  What's special about XWiki Enterprise?

  XWiki Enterprise is a second-generation wiki. What we mean by this is that XWiki Enterprise is a wiki, but it also is an application development platform in its own right. An application is a set of pages that adds new functionality to the wiki - such as a blog or a task manager.

  XWiki Enterprise offers both the features expected from a professional wiki (such as powerful access rights and user management) and the possibility to create new applications on top of the platform. This means that you can extend the wiki's feature set with new ones pretty easily. For instance, you could create a FAQ or an application to manage product sheets.

  XWiki Enterprise comes with a number of applications built-in, such as the Blog.

  A list of applications and macros for XWiki Enterprise is available here: http://extensions.xwiki.org.

  Getting Started with XWiki Enterprise
  

  Welcome to the XWiki "Get Started" page. This guide provides basic information on how to set up and use XWiki Enterprise. (Click here to learn more about wikis.)

  XWiki's use cases are diverse: collaborative intranet, knowledge base, CMS, competitive intelligence, public debate, collaborative creation of school courses, web site creation, etc. Read more on what wikis can be used for, what makes XWiki Enterprise special and a second generation wiki.

  You can visit the references page to see a list of varied projects based on XWiki. You can add your own project to the same page by filling in a short form.

  Contents

  • Basic information
  • If you're an Administrator
  • If you're a Developer
  • If you need more help

    Basic information

    As you log in to your wiki the first thing you see is the wiki homepage.

    

    XWiki Enterprise is divided into Spaces and Pages. A space is a collection of wiki pages. Grouping pages in a space makes them easier to find and browse. From this area you can add pages & spaces. You can also administer your wiki, spaces and pages provided you have the rights. Clickhere to read more about XWiki Enterprise's basic concepts.

    From the upper right corner you may edit your profile information, change your wiki preferences, manage your watchlist.

    Whenever you want to modify a page, click on the "Edit" button, make your changes and save the page. The modified page now replaces the previous version. Each version of the page is stored in the page history and can be reverted to if needed. Export and other page actions are also available.

    This area provides a centralized view of all spaces.

    Check out the activity stream to see what everyone has been up to. Share status updates with other wiki users.

    Lateral menus are handled using Panels. A panel is a rounded widget you can see on the right of every page of your wiki in the standard version of XWiki Enterprise.

    To see the complete list of features go to the features page. More information on the first steps with XWiki Enterprise can be found on this page.

    If you're an Administrator

    Before you perform admin actions, you will need to log in using the following credentials:
    Username: Admin
    Password: admin
    We strongly recommend you change the Admin's password to a secret one as soon as you can.

    The XWiki Platform provides general information for admins that need to customize their wiki application (authentication, DB, performance tuning, etc.). Everything you want to know about administrating XWiki, from installation to backups is available in the Administrator's Guide:

    • Discover how to create users and groups and handle rights on your wiki.
    • Learn how to customize the look and feel of the wiki (skin, color themes, panels)
    • See how you can backup your wiki, import XAR files to the wiki and much more.

      If you're a Developer

      XWiki is also a second generation wiki. You can build simple applications, extend the platform with custom plugins, or even build complex Web applications. XWiki's powerful programming features are documented in the Developer's Guide. A number of applications are built-in, such as the Blog. Additional applications, macros and other extensions are available on the Extensions wiki. The documentation for the XWiki Rendering has adedicated wiki.

      For documentation related to contributing to the XWiki project, visit the XWiki Development Zone.

      If you need more help

      If you need more help with your wiki or you'd like to get in touch with the community please visit the support page for more information.