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The CommunityWiki celebrates its first 1,000 days of life

(27/03/2009-14:24)
A thousand days have passed since GeneXus decided to take a chance on incorporating its own Wiki. This time has proved to be more than enough to share some qualitative and quantitative data with the Community.
The Wiki reflects two basic concepts that represent the social Web: collaborative participation and knowledge society; they are both innovative undertakings that have been embraced by the GeneXus Community. 

GXWiki (Wiki developed using GeneXus that can be downloaded,  adjusted and extended) was launched in 2006 together with the CommunityWiki and Artech's internal Wiki. Since then, GXWiki has turned out to be an essential communication tool for GeneXus' technical innovation, empowering and enriching the knowledge of the Community thanks to the collaborative participation of its members to create content. Today, 1,000 days after its creation, the CommunityWiki has 6,752 pages and 4,463 active members.




View all the specific functionalities of the GeneXus Wiki on this page.

GXWiki is extended
Not only Artech and the GeneXus Community use their own Wiki based on GXWiki, but also large companies have adapted it to their needs; for example, Faber Castell (Brazil), Bantotal de De Larrobla (Uruguay), Legado IT (Argentina) or Concepto (Uruguay), among others in the region.

Your company or organization can create its own Wiki; to do so you only have to download it and generate it for your platform of choice. In addition, because the GXWiki is open source (collaborative project) and is developed with GeneXus, you can extend it or change the Knowledge Base as you wish. And if you want to contribute with those changes to the project, please go ahead and do it. Several other companies that have implemented it have already shared their customizations.

Download version 3.0 of GXWiki, which has been updated based on Beta 2 of GeneXus X Evolution 1 (you may read about its features here).

Why install GXWiki?

• It's free and easy to install.
• It creates value for communities or groups that share information.
• Collaboration increases productivity.
• Corporate information is enhanced.


How to install GXWiki

• Install Beta 2 of GeneXus X Evolution 1
• Download GXWiki version 3.0 

 
  

Testimonies of GXWiki users:

 
Bruno Bonamin, Systems Developer at Legado IT (Argentina):

"We have been using GXWiki (on .NET and with SQL Server 2005 Express) for three months for documentation and internal regulations of the company. This, together with the collaboration of the company's users, makes it possible to have all the relevant information readily available to anyone with a username and password. At present we have about 500 pages neatly organized in categories, which makes finding "something" an easy task that doesn't take hours and hours".

Enrique Almeida, Partner and Director of Concepto (Uruguay):

"Currently we have several Wikis for different purposes but they all share the transparency they provide to information. One is for registering the changes made to a system so that clients can view them. We take the data from our incident system and save it on the Wiki; we plan to make it possible to enter it automatically with the GXWiki API. The second one contains the documents describing the development processes and internal regulations, and the third one is used to store information about a KB. Every night a process is run that searches for KB objects that haven't been documented on the Wiki (by the date and time they were last modified) and a page is saved with information about it. The purpose is to allow its auditors to view the changes made to objects. To save this we use GXPublic and the GXWiki API".

 

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