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== Welcome to BlueSpice! ==
== Welcome to the BlueSpice Galaxy! ==
Your wiki serves as a single, easily accessible space where all company-related documentation lives. Whether it’s onboarding guides, process documents, project updates, or best practices — having them in one place means that you spend less time hunting for information and more time getting work done. This centralization not only improves your efficiency but also helps preserve everyone's knowledge, reducing the risk of information loss when someone leaves the team.
The '''BlueSpice Galaxy''' is your organization's central knowledge management environment. It brings together the information, documentation, and collaboration spaces you need for your daily work. Whether you are looking for onboarding materials, process documentation, project information, or best practices, the Galaxy helps you find what you need in one connected place, so you need to spend less time on searching and more time on getting things done. <br>
 
When you log in, you arrive in the '''Main wiki'''. It is your starting point in the Galaxy and typically contains organization-wide information that is relevant to everyone. From here, you can naviagate to '''Subwikis''' dedicated to specific topics, teams, projects, or business functions, as well as the '''Shared resources''' wiki. <br>
Wikis are built on the principle of collaborative editing. Everyone in the company — from top management to new hires — has the opportunity to contribute, modify, and update content. This open-ended collaboration encourages cross-departmental communication, breaking down silos and enabling the free flow of information. By becoming a shared tool, the wiki fosters a culture where every contribution is valued and knowledge is continuously refined.
The wikis in the Galaxy are built on the principle of collaborative editing. Depending on your permissions, you can create new pages, improve existing content, and share your knowledge with others. As collegues contribute and maintain information together, the Galaxy becomes a trusted source of knowledge that grows with your organization and helps preserve valuable expertise over time.  
 
==From wiki to knowledge platform==
==More than just a wiki==
Your BlueSpice Galaxy is more than just a place to store information. It combines the flexibility of a wiki with additional tools for organizing, maintaining, and managing important business information. <br>
Your BlueSpice wiki is based on MediaWiki, the software that also runs the Wikipedia online encyclopedia.  
While a traditional wiki focuses primarily on creating and sharing content, the BlueSpice Galaxy provides additional capabilities to structure knowledge, support documentation processes, and maintain reliable information over time. This makes the platform suitable for a wide range of organizational needs, from knowledge bases and process documentation to quality management and other business applications.  
 
==About this user manual==
In addition to the typical and robust collaboration features of MediaWiki, BlueSpice includes imporant quality management and maintenance tools that enable you to use the wiki for a variety of important business functions. As both a flexible knowledge base and a quality mangement platform, your wiki will support your efforts to collaboratively grow, manage and distribute all information that is important to you.
This user manual explains the concepts and features you need to work with content in the BlueSpice Galaxy. It is intended for users who read, create, edit, and review information, and helps you understand how to use BlueSpice effectively in your daily work. <br>
 
The manual focuses on functionality that is specific to the BlueSpice Galaxy and on important concepts for organizing and maintaining content. The BlueSpice Galaxy is based on MediaWiki, the software that also powers Wikipedia. Some core wiki functionalities are therefore already covered in the extensive MediaWiki documentation at [https://www.mediawiki.org mediawiki.org]. Where appropriate, this manual refers you to the relevant MediaWiki resources. <br>
==What this user manual covers==
If you are responsible for managing the structure of a specific Subwiki or administering the entire Galaxy, please refer to the corresponding administrator documentation.
The MediaWiki community has written extensive support documentation. A lot of the questions you have around using your wiki's features are answered right at [https://www.mediawiki.org mediawiki.org]. This user manual focuses mainly on the functionality that is part of the BlueSpice distribution of the MediaWiki software and on important concepts that you need for making decisions around organizing and managing your content.  
==Need help?==
 
==Who should read this user manual?==
The audience for this user manual are mainly wiki maintainers, also known as "wiki gardeners". These are the users who are responsible for ensuring that the quality of the content and the ease of use meet the expectations of both their users and their wiki owners. These users usually have reviewer rights in the wiki, but don't have the permissions of wiki administrators.
 
However, wiki editors are also invited to read this user manual. With that in mind, we included some information that focuses on the editing process, such as working with wiki pages.  
 
==Questions?==
If you have questions that go beyond the information in the user manual, you can visit our forum at [https://community.bluespice.com community.bluespice.com.]
If you have questions that go beyond the information in the user manual, you can visit our forum at [https://community.bluespice.com community.bluespice.com.]
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Welcome to the BlueSpice Galaxy!

The BlueSpice Galaxy is your organization's central knowledge management environment. It brings together the information, documentation, and collaboration spaces you need for your daily work. Whether you are looking for onboarding materials, process documentation, project information, or best practices, the Galaxy helps you find what you need in one connected place, so you need to spend less time on searching and more time on getting things done.
When you log in, you arrive in the Main wiki. It is your starting point in the Galaxy and typically contains organization-wide information that is relevant to everyone. From here, you can naviagate to Subwikis dedicated to specific topics, teams, projects, or business functions, as well as the Shared resources wiki.
The wikis in the Galaxy are built on the principle of collaborative editing. Depending on your permissions, you can create new pages, improve existing content, and share your knowledge with others. As collegues contribute and maintain information together, the Galaxy becomes a trusted source of knowledge that grows with your organization and helps preserve valuable expertise over time.

From wiki to knowledge platform

Your BlueSpice Galaxy is more than just a place to store information. It combines the flexibility of a wiki with additional tools for organizing, maintaining, and managing important business information.
While a traditional wiki focuses primarily on creating and sharing content, the BlueSpice Galaxy provides additional capabilities to structure knowledge, support documentation processes, and maintain reliable information over time. This makes the platform suitable for a wide range of organizational needs, from knowledge bases and process documentation to quality management and other business applications.

About this user manual

This user manual explains the concepts and features you need to work with content in the BlueSpice Galaxy. It is intended for users who read, create, edit, and review information, and helps you understand how to use BlueSpice effectively in your daily work.
The manual focuses on functionality that is specific to the BlueSpice Galaxy and on important concepts for organizing and maintaining content. The BlueSpice Galaxy is based on MediaWiki, the software that also powers Wikipedia. Some core wiki functionalities are therefore already covered in the extensive MediaWiki documentation at mediawiki.org. Where appropriate, this manual refers you to the relevant MediaWiki resources.
If you are responsible for managing the structure of a specific Subwiki or administering the entire Galaxy, please refer to the corresponding administrator documentation.

Need help?

If you have questions that go beyond the information in the user manual, you can visit our forum at community.bluespice.com.


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