BlueSpice 4.5

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BlueSpice 4.5 is a minor release

New and enhanced features

Feature Description Screenshot
Edit together

The new "Edit together" edit mode allows multiple users to simultaneously update a wiki page. Users can be invited to collaborate in real-time.

This way of editing is efficient and convenient in different scenarios, for example for writing meeting minutes, for drafting and brainstorming new content or during quick proofreading sessions.

CollabPad documentation

Meeting minutes page with 3 contributors
Edit together
Books We have modernized the approach to our book functionality. A visually appealing Bookshelf page makes it easy to organize and access books.

It is now also possible to add a wikipage to multiple books. Sinc we elimineted the bookshelf-tag, adding a page to a book no longer creates a new page revision. This ensures that the approval status of pages is not affected when a page is added to a book.
Books documentation

Bookshelf "Manuals" with 3 books
Books page
Pages overview We continued to enhance the user interface of standard special pages. The mediawiki AllPages special page has been replaced by a user-friendly version.

A filterable index of all wiki pages in the different namespaces makes it easier to quickly locate any wiki page.

"Pages" documentation

alphabetical list of pages in the main namespace
Special page "Pages"
Uploaded files overview Another enhanced special page is the List of files that have been uploaded to the wiki.

A decluttered grid-view and larger thumbnails support users in finding the uploaded files.

"Files" documentation

Notifications A simpler and more flexible notification system that is easier to manage and to understand. Users now subscribe to notifications based on their preferences.

Notifications documentation

Examples of notification subscriptions in the user preferences
Notifications
Visual editor enhancements New convenience shortcuts for inline formatting. Support of Unicode Emojis 😲

VisualEditor+ documentation

AI-assited editing AI Editing Assistant documentation
AI assistent with summarized content suggestion and additional field to ask for an improvement
AI-suggested text edit

Added extensions (8)

List of added extensions
Extension Description Developer
AIEditingAssistant AI-assisted editing for VisualEditor (requires OpenAI API key). Hallo Welt!
CollabPads Allows collaborative editing of wiki pages. Hallo Welt!
Notifications Informs users about changes based on a subscription mechanism. Hallo Welt!
NumberHeadings Toggles headings autonumbering. Hallo Welt!
OAuth Allows usage of OAuth 1.0a and OAuth 2.0 for API authorization. MediaWiki
TableTools Provides a css class for tables with full accessibility support. Hallo Welt!
VueJSPlus Collection of VueJs components used in the BlueSpice user interface. Hallo Welt!

Removed extensions (2)

  • BlueSpiceEchoConnector: Replaced with extension Notifications.
  • Echo: Replaced with extension Notifications.



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