XWiki Training

XWiki Training: Wiki CMS and Semantics

Content management and wiki in general

1. An overview of content management solutions; the original concept of Web (read and edit through the same browser); how this idea moved to the wiki implementation.
2. Various applications of wiki - Wikipedia - collaborative content creation; 2nd generation (programmable) wiki - Atlassian Confluence, XWiki; alternatives. Differences between the 1st and 2nd generation
3. Enterprise information management has certain tools; no tool is perfect; there are gaps to be filled. Identify the gaps.

1. XWiki markup syntax:
   1. Whitespace handling, special symbols, headers, text emphasis, lists, tables.
   2. Internal and external links; renaming and refactoring of documents
   3. The built-in templates - "warning", "info", "error".
   4. Attachments, referencing attachments in the wiki-text, images.
2. Basic attributes for a document - parent, space(web), tags, objects Presentation: Document Model:
   1. Multilingual documents; translating; default language of a document.
   2. Obtaining ordered navbar/concatenation of documents with common parent, tags or other attributes.
   3. Using "field" values in XWiki documents
   4. Learning about Velocity commands "if/else/elseif/end", "foreach/end", "set", reading values of a document object. Defining new Velocity macros.
3. XWiki applications:
   1. User registration integration with an existing user directory (Windows Active Directory, LDAP)
   2. Using "includeInContext" and "includeForm" macros
   3. Creating a blog
   4. Using tags and other ways to create RSS feeds.

1. Setting up your own XWiki instance - we consider this platform: Kubuntu Linux, Apache2, Tomcat5, MySQL. Initial configuration of XWiki - detailed instructions are available Linux instalācijas?). See also XWiki.org.
2. XWiki user management, public/private pages and spaces, user right levels (read, commend, edit, script, administer).
3. Creating backups with mysqldump; possible migration.
4. Creating off-line copies.
5. Integration with other tools - how to use RSS feeds, LDAP authentification, screen-scraping, obtaining PDF (i.e. printer-friendly HTML -> PDF995, rather than directly PDF).
6. Integration with MS SharePoint - tagging bookmarks to SharePoint - internal "del.icio.us" (cf. http://del.icio.us). (Consider using "FireFox active bookmarks" to tag resources.)

1. Initial tuning of an XWiki instance - your own look and feel; modifying banners, etc.
2. Setting up user statistics - how to structure Apache logs; Google Analytics.
3. XWiki scripting with Velocity; Document, Context etc. objects. Defining new objects
4. Extending XWiki with Groovy; including HTML/CSS/JavaScript -related macros.
5. Defining new plugins. Some examples - glossary terms; math expressions, etc.
6. XWiki using for Riga DC - internal solutions. Our offers: HR Portal, rigamethods.accenture.lv.

1. RSS (Really Simple syndication); how to obtain the most recent feeds.
2. RSS usage in SW applications
3. Ontologies and faceted browse.