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 <[email protected]>wrote: > *Hi everybody, > > Richard Heigl and Markus Glaser from Hallo Welt! presented their > MediaWiki-based enterprise distribution > BlueSpice<http://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 > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-enterprise > > -- *Regards,* T. KULANDAIVEL, PHP Web Developer, Texila American University *Skype:* pf.developer2 *Website: *http://www.tauedu.org/ Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/tauspecialscholarship> | Twitter<http://twitter.com/#%21/tauedu> | Blog <http://blog.tauedu.org/#axzz1qJ3Xcs4h> | LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/pub/texila-american-university/29/922/b41> | Youtube <http://www.youtube.com/user/tauedu>
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