Video-Tutorials

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Features

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Two side-by-side browser windows of participants in a collabpad session
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Edit together
Multiple users can edit a wiki page simultaneously. All changes are visible to all editors in real-time.

This is useful to prevent edit conflicts on a page, for co-authoring instant documents such as meeting minutes, or for drafting or brainstorming sessions.

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AI Editing dialog with original text about Engineers and a 5 sentence shortened AI version
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AI Assistant
The AI ​​assistant supports you in editing individual existing text sections. For example, you can summarize text, make it longer, or fix grammar to name a few. 2:14 editor
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Introduction chapter of the user manual with the chapter navigation
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Books
Wiki pages can be displayed as a structured book with chapter navigation. This video helps you to create your first book. 5:22 editor
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Default notifications subscriptions in the user preferences
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Notifications subscriptions
Registered users receive notifications for a variety of changes to the wiki. Learn how to subscribe to different types of notifications. 4:55 reader
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example of a sent single notification email
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Notifications template
Wiki admins can customize the email template for notifications directly in the wiki. 4:11 admin,

structuremanager

4.4 photo of a physical notebook with a to do list. A pen is sitting on top of the paper.
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Mentions and Tasks
A quick tutorial for adding mentions and tasks to a page (available with BlueSpice 4.4+)Video excerpt from the BlueSpice presentations at SMWcon 2023. 4:39 editor

Organizing a new wiki

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4 Screenshot of a wiki formatted by FlexiSkin
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FlexiSkin
With FlexiSkin, you can customize your wiki design — for example: logo, colors, or fonts — in minutes. 6:30 admin, structuremanager
4 Screenshot of a standard main navigation
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Main navigation
By default, some links are provided as entry points to the wiki. Wiki administrators can deactivate these links in the configuration manager if needed. In addition, custom links can be added here. 4:30 admin, structuremanager
4 Customized main page
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Main page
This video shows you a convenient way to create a custom homepage layout. It can be applied to any wiki page. 7:43 editor
4 Custom menu screenshot
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Custom menu
Custom menu is an additional menu option with configurable items. It appears as a mega menu when expanded. Menu items can be modified by editing the page MediaWiki:CustomMenu/Header. 2:30 administrator, structuremanager
4 Category manager screenshot
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Categories
In addition to namespaces, categories are an important organizational principle in the wiki. They allow pages to be grouped and automatically linked to the associated category pages. 7:53 editor,

administrator (import)

4 Screenshot of a portal page with page lists
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Categories and page lists
Page lists are dynamically created links to a group of pages based on certain selection criteria. BlueSpice has different mechanisms through which these lists can be created. 5:09 editor



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