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.
Latest Blog Posts
OAuth2 and OpenID Connect Extension 2.29.0 Released
The OAuth2 and OpenID Connect Extension 2.29.0 has been released. It makes authentication work from several browser tabs at the same time, adds configurable timeouts to the requests sent to the provider, and adds CORS support to the provider endpoints meant to be called by JavaScript clients. …
Wiki Link URL Normalizer Extension 1.10.2 Released
The Wiki Link URL Normalizer 1.10.2 has been released. It fixes the errors logged when moving or renaming pages while a URL normalizer filter has no link reference pattern. …
XWiki 18.4.7 Released
The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 18.4.7. This is a bug fix release. This release contains security fixes, with the highest severity being 9.3/10. See the release notes for more information. …
Documentation Extension 1.17 Released
The Documentation extension 1.17 has been released. It fixes the Documentation Violations Live Data, which showed the first violation of a page in all of its rows, and improves how violations and false positive marks are saved, how pages are analyzed, and the robustness of several macros, badges, search forms and the navigation panel. …
XWiki 17.10.14 Released
The XWiki development team is proud to announce the availability of XWiki 17.10.14. This is a bug fix release. It also contains security fixes, with the highest severity being 9.3/10. See the release notes for more information. …
Documentation Extension 1.16 Released
The Documentation extension 1.16 has been released. It lets admins mark documentation violations as false positives and check all documentation pages at once, brings the SCM macro into the application, adds the FAQ sections to the table of contents, and fixes false reports from the Related link label and verb checks. …
Python 3 Lands in XWiki
XWiki finally speaks Python 3: the new python3 macro runs modern Python scripts in wiki pages thanks to GraalPy, and the packages published on PyPI can now be installed as extensions. …
Documentation Extension 1.15 Released
The Documentation extension 1.15 has been released. It adds many new XWiki.org documentation checks (content, links, images and page structure), makes the image macro use its alt text, and fixes false reports from several existing checks. …
MyXWiki.org upgraded to 18.8.0
myxwiki.org has been upgraded to XWiki 18.8.0. If you own a wiki hosted there, you should have a look at the release notes for this version. Your wiki might not yet be fully upgraded, but it will eventually be, automatically in the background. It should still be usable in the meantime (some new features and improvements listed in the release note might just not yet be visible), but page save might be slower than usual while the upgrades are running. …
Cristal 1.8.0 released
Cristal 1.8.0 is now released. This is a bugfix release, also including improvements coming from XWiki 18.8.0. See the release notes for more details. …
Powered by XWiki
The Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (HLS) uses XWiki as the core platform to manage its editorial processes and multilingual content. To meet the project's complex requirements, 3 distinct workflows were developed to support the creation of articles, multimedia content, translations, and references, as well as the review, approval, and publication steps. XWiki handles the document structure through customized macros, while Jira is integrated to track the editorial workflow.
To streamline editing, the macros have been enhanced for inline editing within the WYSIWYG editor. This allows editors to work on multiple documents simultaneously and view them in their final layout context.
XWiki also supports a powerful search experience for users. Articles can be found using filters by theme, place, person, family, date, location, and lexicographical order. Users can search directly through input fields or refine results with facets. The same approach is applied to multimedia elements, with filters available by type, date, and location.
To ensure efficient multilingual search, a custom Solr indexer was implemented. This allows the platform to handle both language-dependent and language-independent metadata, making it easier to manage and retrieve content across all required languages, regardless of the data's complexity.
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
