Extension:BlueSpice

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BlueSpice Release status: stable
Implementation	MyWiki, Notify, Page action, Skin, Ajax
Description	MediaWiki distribution for business needs. More info
Author(s)	Hallo Welt! Medienwerkstatt GmbH (mglaserTalk)
Last version	Free 1.1 (2012/03/14)
MediaWiki	1.15 - 1.17
PHP	5.2.6+
License	GPL
Download	http://sourceforge.net/projects/bluespice/ Changelog
Example	http://demo.blue-spice.org
Check usage (experimental)

BlueSpice allows users to edit tables with a WYSIWYG-editor, dialogues simplify the integration of links, categories, pictures and files. Thanks to the user administration and the wiki-preferences the administration of the wiki is quickly done. A newsblog can keep your wiki up-to-date.

Features

BlueSpice

• Blog: Wiki or Blog? Why not both? The internal blog function combines the advantages of both Wiki and Blog.
• Number of threads: Is there a discussion about the article and is it highly frequented? That’s what you can see at the tab “discussion” because the number of edits is shown.
• ArticleInfo: Is the last editing up-to-date? Who’s responsible? And what categories are dedicated? ArticleInfo shows you the relevant information. If you want to know more detailed, just look inside there you find a summary of recent changes.
• Authors: Get an idea of the authors. Below the article you find the authors'pictures.
• ResponsibleEditors: Define responsible editors to review and sign off individual articles and whole books.
• Review: Set up editing and sign-off routines using workflows.
• UserAdministration: User, permissions, passwords - the admin rules the users.
• Group Manager: Looking for an easy way to control users‘ access rights? Our Group Manager allows you to set up a finely tuned rights structure.
• PermissionManager: Here you can delegate special rights to groups.
• NamespaceManager: Define areas with specific writing or reading rights.
• UserPreferences: Fit your Wiki - every user can change his array.
• Settings: Some settings apply to everybody. Only the admin can change it.
• ExtendedStatistics: Illustrate activities in the Wiki with diagrams.
• Extensioninformation: Want to know what functions are integrated in BlueSpice? As an admin you can have a look at Extentioninformation.
• Wanted article: Want to have an article about a special theme? Let others know that there is a requirement.
• InsertFile, InsertCategory, InsertLink, InsertImage: Want to integrate files, categories, images or links in the article? There are some intuitive dialogue windows that help you.
• PageTemplates: Content of new sites can be structured before writing which is helpful for product descriptions or customer information.
• Recent changes: There you can see the articles that have been edited recently.
• PagesVisited: You visited a page and want to see it again? PagesVisited lists the pages you have visited recently.
• UserSidebar: You focus on specific pages? You can link them in the navigation. With BlueSpice you can compile a navigation in a personal sidebar.
• Shoutbox: Use the shoutbox to comment on articles
• Skin: Neat and functional - the new skin facilitates functionality.
• Who is online: Now you know who’s online in the Wiki.
• StatusBar: Display s the status of the page.
• Infobox: Get notified when changes are made on pages, in categories or in namespaces.
• MailChanges: Subscribe to change notifications via email.
• RSSFeeder: Subscribe to changes in sites, categories, namespaces or recent changes.
• RSS Standards
• Widgets: Behind the star you find tools, recent changes, Who’s online, etc. Point-and-Click the you can show or hide functions.
• WYSIWYG-Editor: With this editor you can easily edit articles. It’s similar to a text processing program, so you don’t need wiki code.
• ExtendedEditBar: Frequently used functions are easily accessible and speed up work with the WYSIWYG editor.
• FormattingHelp: Description of the most important Wiki codes for beginners.
• SaferEdit: Buffer storage to retrieve content in case of browser crashes.
• SecureFileStore: Not every user should be allowed to have a look on uploaded files and images or to download them. Thats why there is an access protection.
• InterWikiLinks: You can insert short names for links to other Wikis or URLS.
• Emoticons: certain signs become Icons :-)
• SecureFileStore: Secure files in images folder.
• Extended Search: Full-text search in articles and files via Lucene-powered Solr
• PDF Export: Export articles as PDFs

MediaWiki

• categoryTree: It provides a dynamic view of the wiki's category structure (main catgeories and sub-categories) as a tree.
• ImageMap: One image, many links. You can hyperlink areas of the image to multiple destinations
• InputBox: Users can "complete" a form (entering text, selecting menu items, etc.) by entering text into the box.
• Lockdown: Allows restricted access to specific namespaces and special pages to a given set of user groups.
• Nuke: There is somebody who create some spampages? Nuke makes it possible for sysops to mass delete pages
• ParserFunctions: enhances parser with logical functions makes a text a separate paragraph, with < br / > after every line, i.e., it suppresses reformatting of a single newline to a blank space.
• Create your own Quiz.
• SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi: This extension adds the < syntaxhighlight > tag to present formatted source code.
• Poem: Inserts automatic line breaks in poems, using MediaWiki’s Poems analytics.
• LDAP Authentification:Central Authentification. Connect MediaWiki to Active Directory.
• Cite: Use footnotes to describe further details.

Installation Manual

BlueSpice 1.1 can be installed by following these manuals:
Installation manual (english).
Upgrade manual (english).