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What is a Wiki - http://www.xwiki.com
Paris - Dec 11th, 2004

Slide 1

Title: What is a Wiki

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• and what to do with it and XWiki !
• demonstration of S5 by the XWiki Team

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Slide 2

Title: What is a Wiki ?

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• Definition
  • "A Wiki or wiki (pronounced "wicky" or "veekee") is a website (or other hypertext document collection) that allows a user to add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows that content to be edited by anybody. (Wikipedia)
  • "Wiki Wiki" means "fast" in hawaiian
  • Ward Cunningham created the wiki concept in 1995.
• Main features
  • edit, add your content, save => Your content is online
  • hyperlinks between Wiki pages and automatic creation management of a new page
  • integrated search engine
  • "what's new" list of recent modified pages (like a forum)
  • automatic versioning and history of the modifications of each page

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Slide 3

Title: Why a new concept ?

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• Word files and emails didn't change sharing
• "The network is the computer" said Scott McNealy
• Wikis are considered the tool providing the "most" collaboration
• It lightens the load on your mailbox and its low cost.
• The challenge is the Change Management related to users working with a tool that is based on another philosophy than the traditional "File based systems".

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Slide 4

Title: What can a Wiki do for you ?

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• Creation and maintenance of an FAQ
• Knowledge Management
• Event organization
• Individual & collective brainstorming
• Off line community management
• Collective Artistic creation
• Teaching Tool
• Corporate projects (Extranets, Intranets, Workflows)

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Slide 5

Title: Why is XWiki the best choice ?

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• Available as a hosted service or as software
• XWiki is open-source (GPL)
• Build on a proven J2EE platform
• Relational Database storage
• An engine and interface for constructing meta data and forms for logical structured data
• Integrated support for programming languages
• Support for multiple languages

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