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

Cristal 1.6.1 released

Cristal 1.6.1 is now released. This is a bug fix release fixing a blocker discovered quickly after releasing Cristal 1.6.0. See the release notes for more details.

LDAP 9.16.3 Released

The LDAP Extension 9.16.3 have been released.

XWiki 17.10.11 Released

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 17.10.11. This is a bug fix release. It contains 9 security fixes, with highest severity being 8.7/10. See the release notes for more information.

XWiki 18.4.3 Released

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 18.4.3. This is a bugfix release. It also contains security fixes, with the highest severity being 8.7/10. See the release notes for more information.

Cristal 1.6.0 released

Cristal 1.6.0 is now released. This is a bugfix release, also including improvements coming from XWiki 18.6.0. See the release notes for more details.

XWiki 18.6.0 Released

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 18.6.0. Apart from bug fixes and performance improvements, this release provides an updated look for the comments and several other UI improvements. Further, we progressed on the still experimental integration of the BlockNote editor. This release contains security fixes, with the highest severity being 8.7/10. See the release notes for more information.

XWiki 18.6.0 Release Candidate 1 released

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 18.6.0RC1. Apart from bug fixes and performance improvements, this release provides an updated look for the comments and several other UI improvements. Further, we progressed on the still experimental integration of the BlockNote editor. This release contains security fixes, with the highest severity being 8.7/10. See the release notes for more information.

Release Notes Extension 2.3 Released

The Release Notes 2.3 has been released. This release introduce a structured metadata for the list of contributors.

XWiki 17.10.10 Released

The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 17.10.10. This is a bug fix release. It contains 27 security fixes, with the highest severity being 9.3/10. See the release notes for more information.

MCP Server Extension 0.9 Released

The MCP Server (BETA) v0.9 has been released.

Version 0.9 of the MCP Server (BETA) extension offers users the ability to query wiki pages through Solr, as well as the ability to read, edit, and create wiki pages. Additionally, the extension no longer depends on the LLM Application.


Powered by XWiki

vCalc

vCalc contains a library with a list of Calculators, Equations, Constants, & Datasets. Users have the possibility to contribute content to pages, rate and share them on social media. Calculators allow visitors to perform calculations and estimations. The wiki also features a knowledge base grouped by topics and a blog. The vCalc website has a highly customized look and feel and the navigation is enhanced by panels, a custom footer and menu. It's a great example of advance usages of XWiki.

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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