Knowledge Base Overview

Operation

The knowledge base (or wiki) is a collection of collaboratively written articles. Each article can be linked to several themes and tags. The classic hierarchical data structure (folder/subfolder) is thus abandoned to move to an organization based on "structured data".

Objectives and benefits

One of the objectives of the database is to free users from the mass of emails exchanged between colleagues and to communicate directly on a single platform so that they no longer waste time with knowledge scattered on multiple media - emails, office documents.

In addition, gathering knowledge within a single platform makes it possible to make it consistent to detect missing, contradictory or obsolete information.

Features

Versioning

View the different versions of each article, unwanted changes with a single click (depending on the rights). Display the differences between two versions of the same page. Revert to any previous version.

Internal search engine

Quickly find an information or an article thanks to the intuitive search, find an article even if you have forgotten its name.

Responsive design

wikis au design responsive

The display of your wiki adapts to the device used

Semantic structure...
... with themes, tags and keywords

Classify your articles by theme and add keywords or tags to find them more easily thanks to the multi-criteria search. You thus have functionalities close to a database: fine queries, intuitive searches, statistics and personalized dashboards...

Simple and intuitive editing thanks to the "intuitive WYSIWYG editor"

Test the latest version of the visual editor on MediaWiki.org

Other basic features

Creating links between wiki pages and external sites

Protection possible in writing page by page

Talk page attached to each content page

Automatic notification by email in case of modification of a page followed by a user

Optional features

Display of videos from YouTube Vimeo, Dailymotion...

Displaying widgets from social networks

Collaborative proofreading of digitized works in order to make them accessible in full text (for example to make ebooks or to allow search in the text): example of Wikisource

The technology used: MediaWiki, free and open source wiki software...

Our wikis all use the software MediaWiki (also used by Wikipedia) and several of its extensions including Semantic MediaWiki and Visual Editor.

The free software and its extensions allows us to offer you ever more competitive prices compared to solutions based on paid software.

In addition, Wikipedia, which technically depends on MediaWiki with its huge community of volunteer developers, is a guarantee of the sustainability of the MediaWiki software and the maintenance of its quality. Indeed the risk of open source is that the number of developers decreases and that the project is abandoned.

In addition to being widely used for public projects, many companies or organizations such as NATO, NASA, Intel or VistaPrint use it internally, it is called a private wiki.

... With many free extensions

The Maps extension displays personalized, interactive maps on your wiki pages.

This extension allows you to use the power of Elastic Search within a wiki and thus benefit from an improved full-text search (also called full-text search or free text search): management of accents and proposal of terms close to the query in particular.

Echo allows you to receive notifications following different actions: deleting a page, creating a link, receiving a message...

Hosting

Your knowledge base can be hosted in SAAS mode on our Wiki-Valley.com platform or on a server belonging to you, see our services below:

Our services

The services around the wiki

Update from MediaWiki and its extensions to the latest stable version
Installationand configuring new extensions and features like MediaWiki Semantic MediaWiki or BlueSpice
Configuration initial and administration of your wiki adaptation to your work environment, your company, your project, your professions
Transfer of your existing wiki on our secure "France-based" platform Wiki hosting in France
Support User, administrator and technical maintenance of MediaWiki
Import of your current knowledge since
- your office files,
- another wiki like Dokuwiki,
- SharePoint (indeed MediaWiki can be an alternative to Microsoft SharePoint)...
Import of your current structured data from spreadsheets, csv files, xml...
Connection to your existing databases and digital signage information directly on the wiki, important in the context of the management of reference data
Administration remotely from your wiki
Formations the use of a wiki, Wikipedia
Developing new extensions and tailor-made scripts

Server services

Configuration initial server: Installation and configuration of Linux, MySQL, Apache (or Nginx), PHP
Configuration of a mail server
Optimization of performance
Implementation of automatic scripts for updates and recurring backups of your database and files

Benefits for public wikis

SEO optimization from the wiki
SEO training with MediaWiki

To host a public wiki we contact.

Who are we?

We are a company created in 2016 by two consultants (Sébastien Beyou and Nicolas Nallet) specialized in knowledge management with the free software MediaWiki. Wiki Valley takes over the activities of Sémantiki, a company created in 2012 by Nicolas Nallet and offers even more services thanks to Sébastien Beyou, PHP developer and Linux server consultant.

Sébastien BEYOU

Consultant MediaWiki and system administrator. Contributor to MediaWiki since 2008 and consultant since 2015.

Nicolas NALLET

MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki Consultant. Founder of the company Sémantiki, collaborative web platforms in 2012.