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.
