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Finally, it’s time. Our developers have done a great job and released today a beta version of BlueSpice 3. To make our wiki software even better and meet the high requirements, you now have the opportunity to test BlueSpice 3 and provide your valued feedback.

For more Information see our blog: https://blog.bluespice.com/2018/07/19/bluespice-3-become-a-beta-tester-now/

Our focus: quality assurance, usability and farming.

We proudly announce today's stable release of the new BlueSpice for MediaWiki 2.27.0. It is our second release this year and brings new features and numerous optimizations. Above all, it is fully compatible with the long-time support version MediaWiki 1.27.... read more

The Wikipedia software MediaWiki is a well known solution for collaborative knowledge platforms. It is less popular, but not less ideal, for the development of prototypes and new platforms.

At this year's Semantic-MediaWiki-Konferenz (SMWCon) in Frankfurt, our Hallo Welt! Technical Manager Markus Glaser talked about this connection between MediaWiki and prototyping. Here are the slides of his presentation.... read more

Say hello to the new #BlueSpice free for #MediaWiki 2.27.0 beta version!

Have you already tested it? Well then go! Since last week, there is the BlueSpice 2.27.0-beta, a minor and maintenance version of BlueSpice free, which can be downloaded to tested at Sourceforge. Now we need your help!

Download the beta version and test it. Please report bugs, patches and other feedback. Any kind of feedback (the more constructive, the better) is welcome at our Sourceforge forum or per email to support@hallowelt.com. We look forward to your opinions and appreciate your help!... read more

To all the curious people, who like trying new things: the BlueSpice Demo has been completely updated.

With regard to the needs of our customers we updated the BlueSpice Demo and improved its shape. We really got going and improved the Demo version significantly. It was subject to a substantial revision.

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At the Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario I saw two interesting talks about MediaWiki community and governance issues. They are worth listening!

Quim Gil, Engineering Community Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation, was Analyzing conflict and possible solutions around WMF software development. He gave some helpful hints for community members and developers.... read more

Once again, our BlueSpice developers proved that not even the apocalypse can stop them from reaching their goal: ignoring the continuous downpour on wednesday, an elect group of our team went on the annual REWAG-Firmenlauf. Together with over 1600 other enthusiasts, they braved the rain for 6,8 kilometres, and reached the finish line - soaking wet, but happy ... read more

This blog post is worth reading: G. Brett Miller attended our webinar and summarizes perfectly, how WebDAV provides a much user friendly experience for uploading and working with files on ‪‎MediaWiki‬: WebDAV and MediaWiki.

The post Document management with MediaWiki? appeared first on BlueSpice Blog.
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Jason Bock works for a company called DSA, which primarily does IT Support for the US Department of Defense. He is responsible for milWiki, a military enterprise wiki started in 2008 to be an „online internal encyclopedia for the US Department of Defence“. Milwiki is one component of an overall suite of DoD social business tools called milSuite. The milWiki alone supports 400.000 users and contains more than 20.000 articles in more than 7.000 categories.... read more

Finally: on Tuesday, 31st May 2016, we released the stable version of BlueSpice 2.23.3. We managed to keep our deadline

Download it here at Sourceforge.

Although it is only a "minor and maintenance" release, we include some pretty helpful features, both in BlueSpice free and BlueSpice pro.... read more

On Tuesday, 10th May 2016, we released BlueSpice free 2.23.3-beta, a minor and maintenance version.

Download it here at Sourceforge.

As it's still a beta version – the final release is scheduled for the end of May – we need YOU to put it to the acid test. Please report bugs, patches and other feedback to our Sourceforge Forums. Any feedback is appreciated ... read more

Yesterday we published a new feature list. It was necessary to record the latest extensions. But we used the opportunity to mention a lot of important features that BlueSpice with MediaWiki as basis technology automatically includes: for example security features, many reporting functions and mobile device support.

These features have been neglected in the past, despite the fact that they show that MediaWiki is the leading system for collaborative knowledge systems for good reasons. Hallo Welt! assumed that these features are well known. Now we wanted to show that BlueSpice already includes in its standard what others advertise as an extra.... read more

The last few months BlueSpice MediaWiki has had a great time. We see an increasing number of downloads. BlueSpice becomes more and more visible. And as a result of that, we win many new customers and are involved in incredibly interesting projects.

This makes it possible, and necessary, to push the BlueSpice project forward this year again. We have many ideas and tasks. I cannot share all the details yet, but for a start, here are some general announcements.... read more

This little helper from MediaWiki enables administrators to search and replace words or text passages. The changes can be done in the content of wiki articles and in article titles. Fast and easy, because the modifications will automatically be made in all relevant articles.

• Special page to search and replace single words or text passages in articles
• Search and replace in article titles
• Usage of placeholders and regular expressions... read more

With the MediaWiki BreadCrumbs extension it is possible to keep an overview of where you are in the wiki. The extension shows the path to the called up article and therefore provides orientation.

MediaWiki BreadCrumb: Article with navigation path

 

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We released BlueSpice 2.23.2 - a minor and maintenance release. This is the first release of BlueSpice with the new "BlueSpice pro" subscription. Of course the free version "BlueSpice free" is still available on sourceforge.

• Download BlueSpice free 2.23.2 at sourceforge (please report bugs, patches and other feedback to our sourceforge forums)
• Release Notes... read more

Creating your own Wikipedia is not at all difficult. It does not matter if you want it to concentrate on a specific theme, or if you want to create a wiki for your town or company; the basic considerations are very similar at the start. Here are some tips on what to take into account when you create a wiki. As it needs "green fingers" and a suitable environment. Although one only has a limited impact on group processes as an individual fan of wikis, there are a few elementary basic rules which will help.... read more

With the Lightbox extension it is possible to display thumbnail or image galleries as full-size images in a pop-up while the background is darkened. So with a click on an image you won't be redirected to the image's meta page. If you want to call-up the meta page of the image, please click on the window symbols in the thumbnail.

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A part of the exchange station for abrasive materials from ASIS GmbH

ASIS GmbH from Landshut works in the area of automation technology. This medium-sized company is focused on surface engineering for the car industry. ASIS develops and produces, amongst other things, painting and grinding finishing systems. They currently have about 120 employees.
I spoke with Jana Timinger, Technical Editor at ASIS GmbH, about how knowledge and quality management have changed as the firm has grown.... read more

Yesterday, we published the security release BlueSpice 2.23.1.1. Community user Frederic Mohr had reported a severe cross-site-scripting vulnerability with the Shoutbox, where arbitrary JavaScript code could be inserted in the box and would be executed on each page load. The fix he provided contains a minor change in the input handling. The new release fixes this vulnerability. There's also a patch available for BlueSpice 2.23.1. The monthly release also contains the patch. Downloads and patches can be found at Sourceforge.... read more

Homepages and portals are an important point of entry in wikis. It takes a lot of time to create them - due to this we offer predefined page templates. The #templates are available in seven different colours. Purchase and download them in our shop!
http://shop.blue-spice.org/design-templates/page-template-akses-i-english.html

Seitentemplate für den Einstieg in Ihr Wiki! - Der OnlineShop für BlueSpice for MediaWiki
shop.blue-spice.org
Nutzen Sie die Seitenvorlage, um Nutzern einen leichten Einstieg und Orientierung im Wiki zu geben.
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Have you already seen our new website? No?! We hope you will like it as much as we do
We have not only updated the content, but also redesigned the page and - last but not least - changed the domain to bluespice.com.
We tried to focus on frequent asked questions about BlueSpice to represent them in the website structure, e.g.:... read more

Have you already seen our new website? No?! We hope you will like it as much as we do ;) We have not only updated the content, but also redesigned the page and - last but not least - changed the domain to bluespice.com. Have fun discovering the BlueSpice website: http://bluespice.com/

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Today we published our first "monthly" release. This means you can download a BlueSpice free version that reflects the recent stage of development. Please, be aware that the monthly release is for testing only! For productive use, please use releases that you will find directly in bluespice/files on sourceforge.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bluespice/files/monthly/
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