XWiki
Bring wiki capabilities into the Fediverse
XWiki is a modern and extensible open source wiki platform. Up until now, XWiki had been focusing on providing the best collaboration experience and features to its users. We're now taking this to the next level by having XWiki be part of the larger federation of collaboration and social software (a.k.a. fediverse), thus allowing users to collaborate externally. XWiki is embracing the W3C ActivityPub specification. Specifically we're implementing the server part of the specification, to be able to both view activity and content happening in external services inside XWiki itself and to make XWiki's activity and content available from these other services too. A specific but crucial use case, is to allow content collaboration between different XWiki servers, sharing content and activity.
- The project's own website: http://www.xwiki.org
Why does this actually matter to end users?
Online search and discovery reaches further than the search bar in your browser. There are all sorts of places where people can come together to share knowledge and store information for others to sift through, looking for a particular name, email address or useful snippet. One of these places is a wiki, of which the free community-backed encyclopedia Wikipedia is the most prominent example. On a wiki, people can effectively organize their own knowledge base, decide how their information is organized and linked, making it easily findable. Wiki's are used by organizations, governments and businesses everywhere, sometimes storing data essential for everyday operations, or with sensitive credentials. Some cities have their own wiki's, containing rich localized content useful for inhabitants, shop owners and tourists.
To make a wiki work, you need active and involved users. Xwiki is a platform offering free and open source wiki software for organizations to create their own knowledge base, extending and modifying how the wiki works as they please. Extensibility is essential, which is why Xwiki in this project wants to connect itself to the larger federation of decentralized social networks, also known as the federated universe or fediverse. Connecting to content and interacting with users of for example Mastodon, Nextcloud and PeerTube makes Xwiki an even richer wiki platform, allowing all sorts of useful extensions of your knowledge base, website, or collaborative intranet using Xwiki. And because the project is built on open source software and protocols, other communities can learn from these efforts to tie all sorts of public and hidden treasure troves of knowledge together precisely how they want to, while staying in control over their social data and the information they want to share online.
Run by XWiki SAS
This project was funded through the NGI0 Discovery Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 825322.
