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👋 Welcome to r/XWiki - Introduce Yourself and Read First!

Hey everyone! I'm u/LorinaBalan, a founding moderator of r/XWiki.

This is our new home for all things related to XWiki, knowledge management, collaboration, and open-source . We're excited to have you join us!

What to Post
Post anything that you think the community would find interesting, helpful, or inspiring. Feel free to share your thoughts, photos, or questions about XWiki, knowledge management, documentation or open source.

Community Vibe
We're all about being friendly, constructive, and inclusive. Let's build a space where everyone feels comfortable sharing and connecting.

How to Get Started

  1. Introduce yourself in the comments below.
  2. Post something today! Even a simple question can spark a great conversation.
  3. If you know someone who would love this community, invite them to join.
  4. Interested in helping out? We're always looking for new moderators, so feel free to reach out to me to apply.

Thanks for being part of the very first wave. Together, let's make r/XWiki amazing.

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u/LorinaBalan — 6 days ago
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The XWiki Seminar 2026: Guilds, alliances, and a week in Lüneburg

💻 Most of the year, XWikiers see each other in little rectangles on a screen.

France and Romania are home to most of us, with colleagues spread around Europe and as far away as Brazil. We work together every day, of course, but there is still a big difference between “see you on the call” and “pass me the bread”.

Well . . . the laptops don’t stay closed for very long. Put this many developers in one place and a hackathon is basically inevitable. 😄

Our annual seminar is part talks, part “we really need to discuss this properly”.

We talk about where XWiki and CryptPad are going, the principles and ethics behind what we build, ideas we want to try, things we disagree on, things we should probably change...

And we don’t skip the difficult conversations. Although experience suggests that some topics become surprisingly easier to solve when discussed over a beer. 🍺

📖 If you're curious how the XWiki seminar went, we collected a few memories here: https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/seminar-2026-edition/

u/LorinaBalan — 6 days ago
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How do you migrate a knowledge platform people are still using?

One awkward part of a large Confluence migration is that the source platform keeps changing while you work.

Pages are edited, attachments appear, permissions change, new spaces get created.

Meanwhile, the migration team is testing and validating the destination.

We made a short video showing the problem, but I’m more interested in how others have handled the overlap.

  • When did you make the old system read-only?
  • Did you migrate in batches?
  • How did you deal with changes made after the first migration pass?
u/LorinaBalan — 7 days ago
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XWiki + OpenProject + Squash TM as an open-source alternative stack

A quick update from the XWiki team.

Henix has joined the XWiki partner network. They are the company behind Squash TM, an OpenProject partner, and work on testing, software quality, DevOps and Jira replacement projects.

The interesting part for us is the stack this makes possible for organizations trying to move away from proprietary tooling:

  • XWiki as an alternative to Confluence
  • OpenProject as an alternative to Jira
  • Squash TM as an alternative to Xray

That gives teams a way to cover knowledge management, project management and test management with open-source tools rather than replacing one proprietary suite with another.

We’re curious how others here think about this kind of setup.

If you’ve replaced Confluence/Jira/Xray, did you prefer one integrated suite or several interoperable tools? And where did the hardest integration problems show up?

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u/LorinaBalan — 7 days ago
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Webinaire XWiki en français demain : Présentation de la plateforme et questions/réponses

Petit message de l'équipe XWiki pour les membres francophones de la communauté.

Demain, 7 octobre à 15 h (heure de Paris), Cédric Lamblin présentera XWiki en direct.

La session sera consacrée aux fonctionnalités de gestion des connaissances, à l'organisation du contenu, aux intégrations avec d'autres outils et aux possibilités de personnalisation et d'extension de la plateforme.

Il y aura aussi une session de questions/réponses, donc si vous découvrez XWiki ou souhaitez mieux comprendre certaines fonctionnalités, vous pourrez en discuter directement avec Cédric.

Informations et inscription :

https://xwiki.com/fr/webinaires/L-alternative-europeenne-open-source-a-Confluence

u/LorinaBalan — 9 days ago
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Where to meet the XWiki team in October

Quite a few XWikiers are travelling this month, so here’s a quick overview in case you’re attending any of the same events:

Mindtrek, Tampere: Pauline Bessoles and Ștefana Nazare

Open Source Conference Luxembourg + Fair Tech Summit Europe: Neculai Dascălița and Fabrice

SCCON, Berlin: Clément Aubin, Ludovic Dubost, Jean-Sébastien and our new German Account Manager

Nextcloud Enterprise Day, Copenhagen: more members of the XWiki team

The talks and discussions cover Confluence migration, open source, digital sovereignty, privacy and interoperability.

If you’re going to any of them, feel free to say hello.

u/LorinaBalan — 10 days ago
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[ANN] Confluence Migration Toolkit 1.1.14 and Confluence Migrator Pro 9.43.3 are out.

They fix importing attachments in translated pages, and they counter the compatibility breakage following a change in the XML format exported by Confluence Cloud

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u/LorinaBalan — 10 days ago
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[ANN] XWiki 18.8.0 released

This release includes a mix of UI, editor, security, and developer improvements.

Main changes:

  • 🔎 Improvements to Quick Search
  • 🧩 Better macro editing
  • 🗂️ UI improvements for panels
  • 📝 Annotation improvements
  • ✍️ More work on the experimental BlockNote editor integration
  • 🔐 Stronger protection for user and superadmin passwords
  • 🛠️ New scripting APIs for developers

The BlockNote integration is still experimental, but this release continues improving the editing and collaboration experience around it.

If you self host XWiki, the password security changes are also worth reviewing as part of the upgrade.

Full release notes:
https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/Data/XWiki/18.8.0/

As always, feedback and bug reports are welcome.

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u/LorinaBalan — 14 days ago

Vous cherchez une alternative open source à Confluence ? On organise un webinaire en français le 7 octobre.

Si vous explorez des alternatives à Confluence, ou si vous vous posez des questions autour de l’auto-hébergement, du contrôle des données ou de la dépendance à un fournisseur, ce webinaire pourrait vous intéresser.

Le 7 octobre, nous organisons une session en français pour présenter XWiki. Nous montrerons concrètement comment la plateforme peut être utilisée pour la documentation, les bases de connaissances, les intranets et la collaboration interne.

Ce sera surtout une démonstration pratique, avec un peu de contexte autour de sujets qui reviennent souvent quand une organisation envisage de changer d’outil :

  • Comment organiser et structurer les connaissances ;
  • Comment gérer des droits d’accès fins et l’historique des contenus ;
  • Quelles options existent pour l’hébergement sur site, en cloud privé ou dans XWiki Cloud ;
  • Comment XWiki peut s’intégrer à un environnement existant ;
  • Ce que signifie concrètement utiliser une plateforme open source et portable.

On terminera par une session de questions-réponses. N’hésitez donc pas à venir avec vos cas d’usage ou vos questions sur XWiki, Confluence ou les migrations.

📅 7 octobre, 15h CET

🇫🇷 Webinaire en français

Plus d’infos et inscription :

https://xwiki.com/fr/webinaires/L-alternative-europeenne-open-source-a-Confluence

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u/LorinaBalan — 15 days ago

Vous cherchez une alternative open source à Confluence ?

Si vous explorez des alternatives à Confluence, ou si vous vous posez des questions autour de l’auto-hébergement, du contrôle des données ou de la dépendance à un fournisseur, ce webinaire pourrait vous intéresser.

Le 7 octobre, nous organisons une session en français pour présenter XWiki. Nous montrerons concrètement comment la plateforme peut être utilisée pour la documentation, les bases de connaissances, les intranets et la collaboration interne.

Ce sera surtout une démonstration pratique, avec un peu de contexte autour de sujets qui reviennent souvent quand une organisation envisage de changer d’outil :

  • Comment organiser et structurer les connaissances ;
  • Comment gérer des droits d’accès fins et l’historique des contenus ;
  • Quelles options existent pour l’hébergement sur site, en cloud privé ou dans XWiki Cloud ;
  • Comment XWiki peut s’intégrer à un environnement existant ;
  • Ce que signifie concrètement utiliser une plateforme open source et portable.

On terminera par une session de questions-réponses. N’hésitez donc pas à venir avec vos cas d’usage ou vos questions sur XWiki, Confluence ou les migrations.

📅 7 octobre, 15h CET

🇫🇷 Webinaire en français

Plus d’infos et inscription :

https://xwiki.com/fr/webinaires/L-alternative-europeenne-open-source-a-Confluence

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u/LorinaBalan — 16 days ago
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Vous cherchez une alternative open source à Confluence ? On organise un webinaire en français le 7 octobre.

Si vous explorez des alternatives à Confluence, ou si vous vous posez des questions autour de l’auto-hébergement, du contrôle des données ou de la dépendance à un fournisseur, ce webinaire pourrait vous intéresser.

Le 7 octobre, nous organisons une session en français pour présenter XWiki. Nous montrerons concrètement comment la plateforme peut être utilisée pour la documentation, les bases de connaissances, les intranets et la collaboration interne.

Ce sera surtout une démonstration pratique, avec un peu de contexte autour de sujets qui reviennent souvent quand une organisation envisage de changer d’outil :

  • Comment organiser et structurer les connaissances ;
  • Comment gérer des droits d’accès fins et l’historique des contenus ;
  • Quelles options existent pour l’hébergement sur site, en cloud privé ou dans XWiki Cloud ;
  • Comment XWiki peut s’intégrer à un environnement existant ;
  • Ce que signifie concrètement utiliser une plateforme open source et portable.

On terminera par une session de questions-réponses. N’hésitez donc pas à venir avec vos cas d’usage ou vos questions sur XWiki, Confluence ou les migrations.

📅 7 octobre, 15h CET

🇫🇷 Webinaire en français

Plus d’infos et inscription :

https://xwiki.com/fr/webinaires/L-alternative-europeenne-open-source-a-Confluence

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u/LorinaBalan — 16 days ago
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We just got back from the XWiki annual seminar in Lüneburg, Germany.

We spent a week working together in person after another year of mostly async work

We are a remote, mostly async team, so this is one of the few times each year when almost everyone is in the same place.

The useful part is not really the formal sessions, as we're used to hold them remotely.

It is everything that happens around them.

A support question turns into a product discussion because the right developer happens to be sitting nearby. Someone brings up an issue over lunch and 4 different teams end up looking at it from completely different angles. A debate that might have taken 30 messages online gets settled, or at least properly argued about, around a table.

We also spent a fair amount of time not talking about work at all. Walks around Lüneburg, games, long dinners, bad jokes, good beer, and getting to know people you normally interact with through tickets and chat.

Some ideas came back with us. Some decisions are clearer. A few debates definitely survived the trip.

For people working in remote teams, what actually makes an in person week worth doing for you?

u/LorinaBalan — 20 days ago
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[ANN] Orange Business joins the XWiki partner ecosystem

Orange Business is now an XWiki partner.

The main reason this matters for us is not simply adding another name to the partner list. It expands the options available to organizations that need enterprise services around an XWiki deployment.

The partnership adds:

  • Consulting and implementation expertise for large projects
  • Support for complex Confluence migrations
  • SecNumCloud-certified hosting infrastructure in Grenoble for French customers with specific sovereignty requirements

XWiki itself can already run in the XWiki European Cloud, on premises, or on infrastructure chosen by the organization.

The aim here is to give customers more choice around the services and hosting that sit around that deployment, particularly for larger migration and transformation projects.

u/LorinaBalan — 21 days ago
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How nested pages and permission inheritance work in XWiki

One part of XWiki that can be easy to miss if you only create a few pages is that the page hierarchy is not just navigation.

Suppose your structure looks something like this:

Company

└── Engineering

├── Documentation

├── Architecture

└── Planning

└── 2027 Budget

You could give the Engineering group access at the Engineering level and let those rights flow through the hierarchy.

Then, if 2027 Budget needs different access, you can configure rights more specifically there.

Once a knowledge base gets larger, this starts to make the difference, because your information architecture and your access-control model can follow roughly the same structure.

You don’t need to configure every page independently.

But you also don’t need to put sensitive information into a completely separate universe just because 1 child page has different permissions.

For larger XWiki environments, you can also decide that some areas should live in separate sub-wikis rather than continuing the same tree.

There is obviously more nuance around rights than fits in one Reddit post, but this is the conceptual model.

Would a deeper post on rights precedence and common permission mistakes be useful?

u/LorinaBalan — 23 days ago
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MCP Server Extension 0.10 Released

The MCP Server (BETA) v0.10 has been released.

Version 0.10 of the MCP Server (BETA) extension offers users attachment handling and structured-data tools, as well as page delete, navigation, history, and backlink tools. Additionally, the extension adds an AWM reference page, a hidden flag on the write tools, search and RAG fixes, internationalization support and a server URL config field.

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u/LorinaBalan — 27 days ago
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What should “100% open source” mean when there’s a company behind the project?

XWiki has been developed as open source since 2004, while XWiki SAS also sells hosting, support and professional services around it.

I think this model creates an interesting test for what open source should mean in practice.

For us, the important parts are that someone can:

  • Inspect the source
  • Run the software themselves
  • Modify it
  • Build extensions around it
  • Move away from our hosting
  • Continue using the software without becoming an XWiki SAS customer

Obviously we would prefer people to work with us. We are a company. 🙂

But being technically able not to work with us is part of what gives the customer leverage in the relationship.

I think that distinction gets sometimes lost when open source is treated mainly as a pricing category.

The question is whether the user retains meaningful independence from the company behind the repository.

Where do you draw that line?

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u/LorinaBalan — 27 days ago