Submissions/BlueSpice - a swiss army knife for MediaWiki
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This is a rejected submission for Wikimania 2012. |
- Submission no.
658
- Title of the submission
BlueSpice - a swiss army knife for MediaWiki
- Type of submission (workshop, tutorial, panel, presentation)
presentation
- Author of the submission
Markus Glaser
- E-mail address
glaser@hallowelt.biz
- Username
- Country of origin
Germany
- Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.)
Hallo Welt! - Medienwerkstatt GmbH
- Personal homepage or blog
- Abstract (at least 300 words to describe your proposal)
While MediaWiki is perfect as a wiki used to write encyclopaedias, it does have some shortcomings when taken out of that context. BlueSpice is a set of extensions for MediaWiki which is designed to facilitate the use in non encyclopaedic contexts such as enterprise environments. It is an all in one bundle that aims to cover for all the basic needs of a professional MediaWiki installation.
Among other things, BlueSpice includes a new skin with dynamic information and a flexible navigation concept. Also there is improved editing support with a WYSIWYG-editor and several assistants for linking various sources. There are some additional communication features like a blog and a shoutbox. Interaction among authors is encouraged by displaying pictures of the authors of each article. Search has been enriched with a facetted search feature. For site maintainers, there is a centralized administration page for users. Also, it bundles a set of standard MediaWiki extensons that every up-to-date MediaWiki instance should use.
In my presentation I will show you the benefits of BlueSpice. What are the use cases? I will also explain some of the design considerations of BlueSpice and give reasons why we left the MediaWiki way in some cases.
- Track
- Technology and Infrastructure
- Length of presentation/talk
25 Minutes
- Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?
probably yes
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