BlueSpice MediaWiki
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| developer | Hello World! GmbH |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
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3.1 ( September 19, 2019 ) |
| operating system | platform independent |
| programming language | PHP |
| category | Wiki software |
| License | GPLv3 ( Free Software ) |
| German speaking | Yes |
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BlueSpice MediaWiki (BlueSpice for short) is free wiki software based on MediaWiki and licensed under the GNU General Public License . It was specially developed for companies as an enterprise wiki distribution for MediaWiki.
Editions
BlueSpice is published in three different editions:
- BlueSpice free is a free version and serves as an entry-level solution for companies. It offers functional added value for wiki administrators and users.
- BlueSpice pro is a business-critical solution with comprehensive functions, a constantly growing number of available extensions and long-term support - updates and patches included.
- BlueSpice farm is a scalable solution for creating and managing multiple enterprise wikis on a central server.
Both editions are software collections based on MediaWiki. The extensions are from the Hello World! GmbH , its technology partners and independent MediaWiki developers.
Application scenarios for BlueSpice
BlueSpice is mainly used as
- central company wiki,
- technical documentation platform (e.g. IT help desk or product specifications),
- Quality manual (process and workflow descriptions),
- Knowledge management platform (lessons learned, expert debriefing),
- Documentation tool in research and development.
Functionality
Some central features of BlueSpice are:
- Visual editing
- Allows editing without knowing the wiki code ( WYSIWYG ). Above all, this makes creating tables and uploading and inserting images easier than using classic Wikicode.
- Search and navigation
- An advanced search ( Elasticsearch ) offers improved search functions, such as searching with the help of facets . The search result can also be sorted or filtered according to categories, namespace, author, semantic data, data types, etc. Attached files are also searched. Common functions such as autocomplete and search completion are also offered. The navigation in the wiki can be individually adapted via the dashboard or the UserSidebar.
- Quality assurance and assessment tools (workflow, reminder, etc.)
- Pages can e.g. B. be assigned to an expert. This allows articles to be examined and approved.
- Metadata and semantics
- Analysis and work with metadata.
- Book function
- Individual articles can be combined into article collections in order to create manuals, documentation or instructions with chapter navigation. The books can be exported with the in various formats (PDF, DOCX) together with the respective file attachments.
- communication
- Additional discussion and blog functions, a timeline and notification system support editorial processes.
- administration
- Comfortable management of users, namespaces , groups, rights and settings.
technology
BlueSpice is written in PHP and uses MySQL , Apache / IIS , Tomcat . The editions can be installed over an existing MediaWiki or as a standalone installation that already includes MediaWiki.
The distribution is a collection of extensions that can be extended with user-specific features or skins. While each individual extension can be deactivated, the BlueSpice editions integrate and standardize the extensions in order to improve the user experience and maintenance.
Licensing
All extensions of the BlueSpice distributions are under open source licenses. Hello world! written functions have been published under the “GPLv3” license since 2018.
history
The German company Hallo Welt! has been working on the development of the open source wiki BlueSpice since 2007 . The project was originally initiated by IBM ("bluepedia") after trying to use MediaWiki there, but did not want to live with the disadvantages.
In 2011 Hallo Welt !, decided to publish their wiki as open source software. The stable version of BlueSpice for MediaWiki was released on July 4th, 2011. Since then, a free download has been available from SourceForge . After the first version of BlueSpice only included a few extensions, today it is a fully functional distribution which, in addition to the latest MediaWiki as the heart of the free version, offers more than 50 different extensions and a completely different user interface. According to independent sources, the BlueSpice free distribution is one of the most popular wiki computer programs for knowledge management in companies.
In the fall of 2013, Hallo Welt! the completely revised version BlueSpice 2. According to the BlueSpice developers, this version aims to open up BlueSpice for freelance developers in the worldwide MediaWiki community, and thus also lays the foundation for many new language versions.
In 2014 BlueSpice for MediaWiki became a project of Translatewiki.net . In January 2015, the developers announced that they would switch to a subscription model.
Versions
| Surname | version | Release Date | Changes worth mentioning |
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| BlueSpice 1 | basic | 17th November 2010 | |
| 1.0.1 | September 7, 2011 | ||
| 1.1 | March 15, 2012 | Performance improvements, support of postgreSQL and Oracle databases | |
| 1.20.0 | December 21, 2012 | ||
| 1.20.1 | 17th January 2013 | ||
| 1.21.0 | June 21th 2013 | ||
| BlueSpice 2 | 2.22.0 | November 27, 2013 | Completely revised user interface, revised PermissionManager and UserManager, new internationalization framework, FlexiSkin, dashboards, notifications extension, StateBar (with "similar pages") |
| 2.22.1 | February 13, 2014 | ||
| 2.22.2 | May 8, 2014 | ||
| 2.23.0 | December 9, 2014 | Integrated package installer for MediaWiki and BlueSpice, support from MobileFrontend, revision of the interface, support for memcached caching, translation into more than 40 languages, revised localization, context menus | |
| 2.23.1 | June 25, 2015 | ||
| 2.23.2 | November 30, 2015 |
Improved integration of Semantic MediaWiki and BlueSpice, compatibility with the VisualEditor from MediaWiki |
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| 2.23.3 | May 31, 2016 | ||
| 2.27.0 | November 9, 2016 | New functions: PageAssignments, Showtime, ReadConfirmation, etc. a. m. Full compatibility with MediaWiki 1.27. |
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| 2.27.1 | April 6, 2017 | u. a. Extended file list, category manager, recording of reviews, reviews with semantic metadata | |
| 2.27.2 | 20th July 2017 | u. a. Revised visual editor, assistant for inserting templates, filtering of all special pages, revised permission manager with new mouse-over function, daily or weekly summarized notifications, insertion of signatures and integration and visualization of dynamic cards. | |
| 2.27.3 | April 18, 2018 | Patch release | |
| BlueSpice 3 | 3.0 | 17th October 2018 | Major release:
Extension of new activity, communication and interaction functions (timeline), conversion of the search engine to ElasticSearch, introduction of a fully responsive skin "Calumma" to support mobile view and touch interactions, introduction of "Grafical List" as a new interface element for improvement ease of use, conversion to the MediaWiki VisualEditor, introduction of role-based authorizations to simplify the configuration of rights, revision of the authentication stack (LDAP and SAML). |
| 3.1 | 19th September 2019 | Minor release:
Revised title bar and navigation (subpages, talk pages, categories, revision status), UX improvements, full screen mode, improved search scoring, extended table formatting and font colors, improved integration of documents, support for the NGINX web server, performance improvements, improved screen reader support, delivery of Semantic MediaWiki 3.0, publication of the BlueSpice repositories, public Docker image for BlueSpice free. |
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ blog.bluespice.com .
- ↑ BlueSpice features . mediawiki.org. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
- ^ Matt Bailey: BlueSpice (fixing MediaWiki) . Nerdnuts.com. September 12, 2013. Archived from the original on February 2, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
- ↑ Mela Eckenfels: Spicy: BlueSpice for MediaWiki Archived from the original on February 1, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Linux New Media (Ed.): Linux Magazine . No. 132, Munich, November 2011, pp. 28–31. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
- ↑ Eckenfels, 28.
- ↑ Download BlueSpice . Sourceforge.net. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
- ↑ Maria Figura: The agony of the Wiki choice. Wikis for knowledge management in organizations . Pumacy Technologies AG. June 13, 2013. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
- ^ Mathias Huber: Blue Spice 2: Enterprise Wiki completely overhauled . Linux magazine. November 27, 2013. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
- ↑ Richard Heigl: BlueSpice 2: The new version coming up later this year! . BlueSpice News. September 4, 2013. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
- ^ Stephan Muggli: Translatewiki.net: BlueSpice for MediaWiki project . BlueSpice News. December 9, 2014. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
- ^ New model for BlueSpice . blog.blue-spice.org. Retrieved March 16, 2015.
- ↑ Download . bluespice.com. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
- ↑ BlueSpice 3: The successful enterprise wiki just got even better . In: BlueSpice News . October 17, 2018 ( bluespice.com [accessed May 25, 2020]).
- ↑ Say hi to BlueSpice 3.1! In: BlueSpice News . September 25, 2019 ( bluespice.com [accessed May 25, 2020]).
Web links
- Official website
- Blue Spice for Mediawiki Test , Linux-Magazin 09/2011
