BlueSpice

The German company Hallo Welt! has been working on the development of an open source wiki based on MediaWiki since 2007. The origins of the later BlueSpice software go back to an initiative by the IBM CTO Gunter Dueck, who initiated an internal company wiki for IBM Germany in 2007 under the name "bluepedia". The model for the bluepedia project was Wikipedia and accordingly the platform was based on MediaWiki. However, in daily operation, additional requirements arose for the software used. This led to the founding of a company that would develop and provide the missing functions in the future. In 2011, Hallo Welt! decided to publish their wiki as free and open-source software. The stable version of BlueSpice for MediaWiki was released July 4, 2011. From this point on, a free download was available at SourceForge. A key feature of the software was the provision of a WYSIWYG editor, which at the time was based on the TinyMCE editor. In Autumn 2013, Hallo Welt! released the completely reworked version BlueSpice 2. According to the BlueSpice developers this release aims for opening up BlueSpice for freelance developers in the global MediaWiki community and multiple language versions. In 2014, BlueSpice for MediaWiki became a project of Translatewiki.net. In January 2015 the developers announced that they will change to a subscription model. Since 2017, the software is provided as Docker containers. ==Functionality and technology==

File:BlueSpice search center version 5-1.png|alt=Search results in BlueSpice 5.1|Search engine (OpenSearch) File:BlueSpice 5 PDF export dialog.png|alt=Export dialog with a selection of 4 templates|PDF export with custom templates File:BlueSpice 5 permission manager.png|alt=Simplified default view of the permission manager special page|Permission manager File:BlueSpice 5 workflows dialog.png|alt=Workflows dialog with four default workflows|Workflows for quality control (Pro Edition) File:BlueSpice 5 Drawio editor.png|alt=Drawio org chart in edit mode|Drawio editor (Pro Edition) File:BlueSpice Discovery skin with book navigation.png|alt=Chapter navigation of a user manual|Book navigation (Pro Edition) BlueSpice is written in the PHP programming language and uses MySQL, Nginx, Tomcat and MongoDB (for collaborative editing). BlueSpice is released in a free edition and two paid editions. The free edition adds more than 50 extensions to a MediaWiki, mainly in the areas of: • Editing: A version of the MediaWiki VisualEditor is delivered, which, unlike the original, contains additional functions, such as an easier procedure for uploading documents or inserting dynamic content. The creation of new pages is supported by page templates. • Search and navigation: An extended search (OpenSearch) offers improved search functionalities, like faceted search. The search results can further be sorted or filtered by category, namespace, author, data type, and more. Any uploaded local files are also fully indexed. Other common features are autocomplete and search as you type. • Administration: Convenient management of users, namespaces, groups, rights and settings. ==Licensing and distribution==

All extensions of the BlueSpice distributions are under open source licenses. The functions written by Hallo Welt! are published under the license GPLv3. ==Versions==