*Hi everybody,
Richard Heigl and Markus Glaser from Hallo Welt! presented their MediaWiki-based enterprise distribution BlueSpicehttp://www.blue-spice.org/yesterday. Around 6-7 people attended the online meeting, but I believe some of those who were unable to will be interested in the cool features Richard and Markus showed us, so I am sharing a summary below. Please read on :)
BlueSpice was developed over the last 6 years. It is installed on top of vanilla MediaWiki and offers a bundle of extensions, some MediaWiki-native and some proprietary to BlueSpice. Customers get assurance of the compatibility of the bundle with given MediaWiki versions as well as a roadmap of future releases. The basic BlueSpice distribution comes for free, while support, training, special packages, etc. are paid for.
Hallo Welt! are planning to move to Git in the next few months and open up BlueSpice to the MediaWiki community. The code is currently available for anyone to look at and reuse. However, If you want to submit a patch, you have to email them. This will change soon. Also, documentation in English is limited but they are working on translating all materials/docs/demos in the next several months.
BlueSpice offers the following features catering to the enterprise user :
WYSIWYG editor
- might be replaced by VisualEditor soon but was a major advantage of BlueSpice so far
- easy creation of tables - easy upload of photos and files - interface for insertion of magic words - easy insertions of links within the wiki with a drop down menu of articles - still need to use wikicode a little
Improved search
- advanced options - filter (by namespace, etc.) - suggestions as you type - search file names
Advanced administration panel
- user management - manage email, rights, passwords - connects to LDAP, allows single signon
- extensions management for BlueSpice extensions - list of extensions with status (stable, beta) - automatic testing of extensions - in the next release it will show you when a newer version of an extension exists and what kind of update it is (security, feature) - in the future they hope to have a common repository for BlueSpice and other MediaWiki extensions with the ability to switch extensions on/off and update from the UI - permission manager - assign permissions to users - namespace manager - no need to touch the config files - add, edit properties - merge namespaces - delete namespaces and backup pages in them
PDF export
- you can organize your contents in a hierarchical navigation menu (like a book with chapters and articles) and you can export a chapter as pdf ( soon openoffice and Word doc as well ) - you export to predefined templates - you get all linked attachments in the pdf as well - excellent for creating up-to-date manuals and technical documentation with a click
Improved navigation
- status bar on top of article - last updated, by whom, responsible editor - every user has a personal navigation bar depending on his preferences
Article feedback
- you can assign responsible editors for articles - article review tool - you can ask certain people to review a draft article, define a review period, etc.
Statistics
- improved statistics with visualization, diagrams, etc. - you can look at history of searchers with counts - RSS feeds
Skins
- they offer a few skins but want to improve on that
SMW + BlueSpice?
- theere are several examples that use both and it works without conflicts - there are some conflicts in terms of user experience (Semantic Forms vs BlueSpice editor) but no conflicts - there is no integration between the two yet, even though there is potential for that
Release Cycle
- once or twice a year - releases - patch releases more often - trying to follow MW release cycle since download rate went up 3 times as they released a version supporting newer MW versions recently
Richard and Markus can correct me or add more detail. For technical details, ask Markus Glaser.
Mariya *
Hi maria , need some more info about the media wiki to install mediawiki in my system, is there any guide to do it . if it pls , let me know
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Maria Miteva mariya.miteva@gmail.comwrote:
*Hi everybody,
Richard Heigl and Markus Glaser from Hallo Welt! presented their MediaWiki-based enterprise distribution BlueSpicehttp://www.blue-spice.org/yesterday. Around 6-7 people attended the online meeting, but I believe some of those who were unable to will be interested in the cool features Richard and Markus showed us, so I am sharing a summary below. Please read on :)
BlueSpice was developed over the last 6 years. It is installed on top of vanilla MediaWiki and offers a bundle of extensions, some MediaWiki-native and some proprietary to BlueSpice. Customers get assurance of the compatibility of the bundle with given MediaWiki versions as well as a roadmap of future releases. The basic BlueSpice distribution comes for free, while support, training, special packages, etc. are paid for.
Hallo Welt! are planning to move to Git in the next few months and open up BlueSpice to the MediaWiki community. The code is currently available for anyone to look at and reuse. However, If you want to submit a patch, you have to email them. This will change soon. Also, documentation in English is limited but they are working on translating all materials/docs/demos in the next several months.
BlueSpice offers the following features catering to the enterprise user :
WYSIWYG editor
- might be replaced by VisualEditor soon but was a major advantage of
BlueSpice so far
- easy creation of tables
- easy upload of photos and files
- interface for insertion of magic words
- easy insertions of links within the wiki with a drop down menu of
articles
- still need to use wikicode a little
Improved search
- advanced options
- filter (by namespace, etc.)
- suggestions as you type
- search file names
Advanced administration panel
user management
- manage email, rights, passwords
- connects to LDAP, allows single signon
extensions management for BlueSpice extensions
- list of extensions with status (stable, beta)
- automatic testing of extensions
- in the next release it will show you when a newer version of an
extension exists and what kind of update it is (security, feature)
- in the future they hope to have a common repository for BlueSpice
and other MediaWiki extensions with the ability to switch extensions on/off and update from the UI
permission manager - assign permissions to users
namespace manager - no need to touch the config files
- add, edit properties
- merge namespaces
- delete namespaces and backup pages in them
PDF export
- you can organize your contents in a hierarchical navigation menu
(like a book with chapters and articles) and you can export a chapter as pdf ( soon openoffice and Word doc as well )
- you export to predefined templates
- you get all linked attachments in the pdf as well
- excellent for creating up-to-date manuals and technical
documentation with a click
Improved navigation
- status bar on top of article - last updated, by whom, responsible
editor
- every user has a personal navigation bar depending on his preferences
Article feedback
- you can assign responsible editors for articles
- article review tool - you can ask certain people to review a draft
article, define a review period, etc.
Statistics
- improved statistics with visualization, diagrams, etc.
- you can look at history of searchers with counts
- RSS feeds
Skins
- they offer a few skins but want to improve on that
SMW + BlueSpice?
- theere are several examples that use both and it works without
conflicts
- there are some conflicts in terms of user experience (Semantic Forms
vs BlueSpice editor) but no conflicts
- there is no integration between the two yet, even though there is
potential for that
Release Cycle
- once or twice a year - releases - patch releases more often
- trying to follow MW release cycle since download rate went up 3
times as they released a version supporting newer MW versions recently
Richard and Markus can correct me or add more detail. For technical details, ask Markus Glaser.
Mariya
Mediawiki-enterprise mailing list Mediawiki-enterprise@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-enterprise
Hi,
This thread is probably not the right place for the question ,but did you look at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Install?
If you have more specific questions ask on the mediawiki-l mailing list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l or #mediawiki channel on IRChttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_on_IRC. Also, depending on your needs http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hosting_services and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Software_bundles can offer some alternatives to manual installation.
Mariya
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Kuzhandhai Velu TAU < pf.developer2@tau.edu.gy> wrote:
Hi maria , need some more info about the media wiki to install mediawiki in my system, is there any guide to do it . if it pls , let me know
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Maria Miteva mariya.miteva@gmail.comwrote:
*Hi everybody,
Richard Heigl and Markus Glaser from Hallo Welt! presented their MediaWiki-based enterprise distribution BlueSpicehttp://www.blue-spice.org/yesterday. Around 6-7 people attended the online meeting, but I believe some of those who were unable to will be interested in the cool features Richard and Markus showed us, so I am sharing a summary below. Please read on :)
BlueSpice was developed over the last 6 years. It is installed on top of vanilla MediaWiki and offers a bundle of extensions, some MediaWiki-native and some proprietary to BlueSpice. Customers get assurance of the compatibility of the bundle with given MediaWiki versions as well as a roadmap of future releases. The basic BlueSpice distribution comes for free, while support, training, special packages, etc. are paid for.
Hallo Welt! are planning to move to Git in the next few months and open up BlueSpice to the MediaWiki community. The code is currently available for anyone to look at and reuse. However, If you want to submit a patch, you have to email them. This will change soon. Also, documentation in English is limited but they are working on translating all materials/docs/demos in the next several months.
BlueSpice offers the following features catering to the enterprise user :
WYSIWYG editor
- might be replaced by VisualEditor soon but was a major advantage of
BlueSpice so far
- easy creation of tables
- easy upload of photos and files
- interface for insertion of magic words
- easy insertions of links within the wiki with a drop down menu of
articles
- still need to use wikicode a little
Improved search
- advanced options
- filter (by namespace, etc.)
- suggestions as you type
- search file names
Advanced administration panel
user management
- manage email, rights, passwords
- connects to LDAP, allows single signon
extensions management for BlueSpice extensions
- list of extensions with status (stable, beta)
- automatic testing of extensions
- in the next release it will show you when a newer version of an
extension exists and what kind of update it is (security, feature)
- in the future they hope to have a common repository for
BlueSpice and other MediaWiki extensions with the ability to switch extensions on/off and update from the UI
permission manager - assign permissions to users
namespace manager - no need to touch the config files
- add, edit properties
- merge namespaces
- delete namespaces and backup pages in them
PDF export
- you can organize your contents in a hierarchical navigation menu
(like a book with chapters and articles) and you can export a chapter as pdf ( soon openoffice and Word doc as well )
- you export to predefined templates
- you get all linked attachments in the pdf as well
- excellent for creating up-to-date manuals and technical
documentation with a click
Improved navigation
- status bar on top of article - last updated, by whom, responsible
editor
- every user has a personal navigation bar depending on his
preferences
Article feedback
- you can assign responsible editors for articles
- article review tool - you can ask certain people to review a draft
article, define a review period, etc.
Statistics
- improved statistics with visualization, diagrams, etc.
- you can look at history of searchers with counts
- RSS feeds
Skins
- they offer a few skins but want to improve on that
SMW + BlueSpice?
- theere are several examples that use both and it works without
conflicts
- there are some conflicts in terms of user experience (Semantic
Forms vs BlueSpice editor) but no conflicts
- there is no integration between the two yet, even though there is
potential for that
Release Cycle
- once or twice a year - releases - patch releases more often
- trying to follow MW release cycle since download rate went up 3
times as they released a version supporting newer MW versions recently
Richard and Markus can correct me or add more detail. For technical details, ask Markus Glaser.
Mariya
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A couple more things:
First, Hallo Welt seem very interested in further developing their extension repository, which is currently in an initial stage. Ideally one should be able to switch extensions on and off from the UI and update them as well. My impression is that this will benefit all MediaWiki admins. It's a large project and they cannot take it on by themselves, but hope to get support from other interested community members.
Also, if anyone is intereted in presenting their own improvements on MW similarly, it would be great!
Mariya
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Maria Miteva mariya.miteva@gmail.comwrote:
*Hi everybody,
Richard Heigl and Markus Glaser from Hallo Welt! presented their MediaWiki-based enterprise distribution BlueSpicehttp://www.blue-spice.org/yesterday. Around 6-7 people attended the online meeting, but I believe some of those who were unable to will be interested in the cool features Richard and Markus showed us, so I am sharing a summary below. Please read on :)
BlueSpice was developed over the last 6 years. It is installed on top of vanilla MediaWiki and offers a bundle of extensions, some MediaWiki-native and some proprietary to BlueSpice. Customers get assurance of the compatibility of the bundle with given MediaWiki versions as well as a roadmap of future releases. The basic BlueSpice distribution comes for free, while support, training, special packages, etc. are paid for.
Hallo Welt! are planning to move to Git in the next few months and open up BlueSpice to the MediaWiki community. The code is currently available for anyone to look at and reuse. However, If you want to submit a patch, you have to email them. This will change soon. Also, documentation in English is limited but they are working on translating all materials/docs/demos in the next several months.
BlueSpice offers the following features catering to the enterprise user :
WYSIWYG editor
- might be replaced by VisualEditor soon but was a major advantage of
BlueSpice so far
- easy creation of tables
- easy upload of photos and files
- interface for insertion of magic words
- easy insertions of links within the wiki with a drop down menu of
articles
- still need to use wikicode a little
Improved search
- advanced options
- filter (by namespace, etc.)
- suggestions as you type
- search file names
Advanced administration panel
user management
- manage email, rights, passwords
- connects to LDAP, allows single signon
extensions management for BlueSpice extensions
- list of extensions with status (stable, beta)
- automatic testing of extensions
- in the next release it will show you when a newer version of an
extension exists and what kind of update it is (security, feature)
- in the future they hope to have a common repository for BlueSpice
and other MediaWiki extensions with the ability to switch extensions on/off and update from the UI
permission manager - assign permissions to users
namespace manager - no need to touch the config files
- add, edit properties
- merge namespaces
- delete namespaces and backup pages in them
PDF export
- you can organize your contents in a hierarchical navigation menu
(like a book with chapters and articles) and you can export a chapter as pdf ( soon openoffice and Word doc as well )
- you export to predefined templates
- you get all linked attachments in the pdf as well
- excellent for creating up-to-date manuals and technical
documentation with a click
Improved navigation
- status bar on top of article - last updated, by whom, responsible
editor
- every user has a personal navigation bar depending on his preferences
Article feedback
- you can assign responsible editors for articles
- article review tool - you can ask certain people to review a draft
article, define a review period, etc.
Statistics
- improved statistics with visualization, diagrams, etc.
- you can look at history of searchers with counts
- RSS feeds
Skins
- they offer a few skins but want to improve on that
SMW + BlueSpice?
- theere are several examples that use both and it works without
conflicts
- there are some conflicts in terms of user experience (Semantic Forms
vs BlueSpice editor) but no conflicts
- there is no integration between the two yet, even though there is
potential for that
Release Cycle
- once or twice a year - releases - patch releases more often
- trying to follow MW release cycle since download rate went up 3
times as they released a version supporting newer MW versions recently
Richard and Markus can correct me or add more detail. For technical details, ask Markus Glaser.
Mariya
On Wed 27 Feb 2013 09:19:15 AM EST, Mariya Nedelcheva Miteva wrote:
Ideally one should be able to switch extensions on and off from the UI and update them as well.
This should be part of core MW. I'll try to work with them to make that happen.
There is no path to peace. Peace is the path. -- Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"
Hi Mark,
Sounds great. Any ideas how to get more people involved?
Mariya
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Mark A. Hershberger mah@everybody.orgwrote:
On Wed 27 Feb 2013 09:19:15 AM EST, Mariya Nedelcheva Miteva wrote:
Ideally one should be able to switch extensions on and off from the UI and update them as well.
This should be part of core MW. I'll try to work with them to make that happen.
There is no path to peace. Peace is the path. -- Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"
On Thu 28 Feb 2013 06:28:11 AM EST, Mariya Nedelcheva Miteva wrote:
Sounds great. Any ideas how to get more people involved?
First things first. This is related to the configuration database work (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Configuration_database) that was planned by the WMF to finish up in March.
I suspect nothing has happened with that, but I need to ask to be sure.
There is no path to peace. Peace is the path. -- Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"
Mark,
cool! So you're suggesting we wait until WMF has finished the Configuration database?
Best, Markus
On Thu 28 Feb 2013 06:28:11 AM EST, Mariya Nedelcheva Miteva wrote:
Sounds great. Any ideas how to get more people involved?
First things first. This is related to the configuration database work (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Configuration_database) that was planned by the WMF to finish up in March.
I suspect nothing has happened with that, but I need to ask to be sure.
There is no path to peace. Peace is the path. -- Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"
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On Thu 28 Feb 2013 10:29:04 AM EST, Markus Glaser wrote:
cool! So you're suggesting we wait until WMF has finished the Configuration database?
Only if it is actually happening. I know Chad has wanted to do this for some time, but the Git migration took over. I think he is the staffer working on this.
There is no path to peace. Peace is the path. -- Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"
On 02/28/2013 07:53 AM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
On Thu 28 Feb 2013 10:29:04 AM EST, Markus Glaser wrote:
cool! So you're suggesting we wait until WMF has finished the Configuration database?
Only if it is actually happening. I know Chad has wanted to do this for some time, but the Git migration took over. I think he is the staffer working on this.
I've just replied on this issue in the "[Mediawiki-enterprise] RFC Configuration database" thread.
What work could potentially be done in the interim, before the configuration database exists, to help with the goal of a common extensions repository and administrative dashboard? Some ideas:
* user interface mockups and paper-prototyping usability tests for the repository and the dashboard * getting the metadata for lots of extensions in shape (name, description, download, Packagist listing, icon, authorship, licensing, etc.) for use in the repository
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