Second Generation Wiki

Version 1.7 by Eleni Cojocariu on 2025/11/03 15:46
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Explanation

XWiki is a second-generation wiki, meaning it's not only a traditional wiki, but also a powerful application development platform in its own right. 

While first-generation wikis focus on content collaboration: creating and editing pages together, second-generation wikis take this concept further by enabling users to build structured, collaborative web applications directly from within the wiki. 

XWiki can be used either as a first generation wiki or a second generation one, offering 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.

An application in XWiki is a set of Pages that adds new functionality to the wiki, such as a blog or a task manager. 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.

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This allows XWiki to be used for a variety of use cases, such as Projects Powered by XWiki.

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