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XWiki
Company blog · xwiki.com/en/Blogprogrammingbusiness
XWiki is the company blog at xwiki.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2015, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 41 times, most often “How Trump's second term just made digital sovereignty a European priority”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked mostly as the homepage and blog of XWiki, an open source wiki and knowledge-sharing software company. Linked posts cover its CryptPad work, a four-day work week, and product pricing, and the comments are largely from XWiki staff or job posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Meet XWiki, the open-source knowledge platform for organizations that need structure, control, and long-term ownership. Build on a safe foundation with all the features you need to manage knowledge at scale.
Most-linked posts?
- How Trump's second term just made digital sovereignty a European priority2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-07
What Hacker News says?
I migrated every confluence instance over to XWiki, since the Australian backdoor law[1]. http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome https://xwiki.com/en/try-xwiki/ [1] https://www.wired.com/story/australia-encryption-law-global-...
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on “US Cybercom says mass exploitation of Atlassian Confluence vulnerability ongoing”Submitted How Trump's second term just made digital sovereignty a European priority as a story · 106 points
HN discussionI appreciate your comment. I'm thrilled to learn that CryptPad is part of the openDesk solution. >CryptPad was selected to join the German "Sovereign Workplace" project, now called openDesk. https://blog.cryptpad.org/2025/01/28/CryptPad-Funding-Status... Many more details in this blog post from XWiki: https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/XWiki-CryptPad-knowledge-managemen...
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on “ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk”Submitted A European alternative to Google Docs that won't read your files as a story · 34 points
HN discussionFuture XWiki employee (should start in March!). Feel free to reach out to XWiki [1] [2], they'll be happy to answer your question and address your specific needs. They are nice. Feel free to contact me if you'd prefer but I'll be less competent than them for obvious reasons. I don't know many things about XWiki yet, but the main difference between MediaWiki and XWiki is probably the X in XWiki (eXtensible). XWiki is…
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on “Show HN: BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence”Submitted How Trump's second term just made digital sovereignty a European priority as a story · 10 points
HN discussionHi! I'm working at XWiki SAS [1] on tools to migrate from Confluence to XWiki [2], an open source and powerful wiki software that was born at about the same time as Confluence. We have all this. We offer support and consulting, including for handling your migration. Our migration tools try to keep as much of the content and its feature as possible, and we work on compatibility macros for this. Feel free to reach us,…
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on “Show HN: I am building an open-source Confluence and Notion alternative”Submitted Discover European alternatives to popular SaaS as a story · 9 points
HN discussionXWiki SAS | https://xwiki.com/ | Remote (EU) | Full Time | Director of Marketing XWiki is the Libre Software provider building Knowledge Sharing and Privacy Centric Collaboration software We’re currently looking for a Director of Marketing with Open Source passion ! Please check here the details of the role ! The fix part will depend on the experience, location, type of collaboration, internal equity etc. In France,…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)”Submitted Safe Harbor is dead! What's next? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionXWiki SAS | Hybrid/Remote | Full-time | https://xwiki.com/ | Wiki/Knowledge base I'm tech lead of a new project named Cristal, issued from a first round of public research funding. The project aims at being a generic and embeddable front-end for knowledge base softwares. You will be joining our research and development team to build a new Open Source knowledge management tool. We are looking for web software enginee…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)”Submitted 6 pieces of advice to encourage collaboration inside your company! as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAmazon had a giant internal wiki that they used for team information, playbooks, design docs, etc. Formatting was kind of ugly, but the barrier to making an edit was super low, and having everything in one searchable place was super useful. From experience, I think any system that requires more than a few minutes to make an edit ends up not being updated and going stale pretty quickly. Source: https://www.xwiki.com/…
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on “Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers”Submitted Why European data sovereignty demands data governance as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'm working at XWiki SAS [1], which provides hosting, support and customization for XWiki [2], an open source extensible wiki you can use for collaboration in a team (among other things). We are seeing many clients coming from Confluence because of the recent price raise and so we have tools to migrate from Confluence. They seem happy. There are ways to customize XWiki to fulfill the specific need of each team if th…
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on “Zero-Day Exploitation of Atlassian Confluence”Submitted Could Open Source have prevented the Volkswagen scandal? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLooking at the pricing page[1], it looks like open source is missing many features like LDAP and extensions. Is that correct? [1]: https://xwiki.com/en/pricing/
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on “Should I open source my company? (2022)”Submitted Why open source is Europe's path to digital sovereignty as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes, I work for XWiki [1] which works exactly like this. It's been running since 2005. Don't expect FAANG salaries, the company is small and doesn't have investors, but the salaries are decent and the working conditions are great. To my knowledge we don't have any competitor that takes XWiki and provides support and/or consultancy. I don't think it would be possible to freeride on our product because it would requir…
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on “Should I open source my company? (2022)”Submitted German spends over €1.3B annually on software, €204.5M going to Microsoft as a story · 3 points
HN discussionXWiki SAS has a 4.5 days workweek ( https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/XWiki-four-days-work-week/ ), and is hiring.
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on “Ask HN: Companies hiring for a 4-day workweek?”Submitted XWiki Cloud Now Free for Open Source Projects as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou could get a cloudhosted 10 user XWiki service for 10€/month. I run a copy locally on my laptop for all my technical notes. It’s described as Enterprise but it’s really easy to use, or I wouldn’t use it just for taking notes. https://www.xwiki.com/en/products/pricing
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on “Ask HN: Modern, ideally hosted wiki engine for small-ish community?”Submitted Top 10 reasons you'll love XWiki Collaboration Suite as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFor more details about the Analytics App (Pro) you can also check: Blog: https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/Analytics-Application-Pro/ GitHub: https://github.com/xwikisas/application-analytics
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on “Show HN: Analytics – Open-Source Analytics for Wikis and public websites”Submitted XWiki and OpenProject as an open-source alternative to Confluence and Jira as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe published an article on why internal documentation matters and how to build it properly: https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/internal-documentation-best-practi... The core issue: "later" usually means "never." Teams lose institutional knowledge, onboarding takes 3x longer than it should, and people keep making the same mistakes because nobody wrote down what worked. What the article covers: Why documentation decay is struc…
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on “We'll document this later" and why internal documentation systems fail”Submitted Atlassian Data Center EOL: testing an open-source migration path as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRunning a technical session on why documentation systems fragment at scale and what actually prevents it. The problem: Most tools optimize for writing, not surviving. After 3-4 years, you get 20-30% broken links, orphaned pages, and teams asking "where did we document that?" Navigation breaks around 1k pages because hierarchies reflect how one person thought about the problem in 2022, not how new people need to find…
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on a deleted threadSubmitted Show HN: Struggling with complex legacy systems? Learn to rebuild your systems as a story · 2 points
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