UC2: Mandriva Club - usage of XWiki by Mandriva

Use Case
ObjectWeb componentsXWiki
Other componentsXWiki libraries http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/Libraries
AbstractThe Mandriva Club is an online platform providing a set of services to a community of 25000 members willing to take the most of their Mandriva Linux system and to share their knowledge about open-source applications. Since Summer 2005, the Club has been relying entirely upon XWiki Content Management System. Thanks to XWiki, the Club has been enhanced with new services including a multilingual knowledge base featuring social tagging based classification, a blogging area, a collaborative RPMs farm for requesting new RPMs releases and for managing the associated workflow, dedicated spaces for regional communities, multilingual forums, and more.

The usage of XWiki let users not only publish and translate contents easily, but also become real builders of the next platform services. The XWiki programming API available from documents favours rapid development of applications upon request of Club members. Members can issue wishes, specifications and application prototypes indeed, directly through the wiki. The XWiki data model design engine is also widely put into practice, currently within a large scale collaborative catalogue of open-source applications with rich descriptions and user reviews.

Details
URLhttp://club.mandriva.com
Additionnal materials

Why is this use case a success?
Here are some reasons why we consider the usage of XWiki is a success in the Mandriva Club context:

Usability =========

  • the web site can be managed and customized by non technical persons
  • web site users more and more contribute contents and ideas to the platform, and they like the platform
  • users provide positive feedbacks
  • integrated scripting language make administrative tasks very easy
Architecture ============
  • XWiki modular plugin architecture lets us enhance the platform in a consistent manner. Mandriva has developed a TaskPlugin for scheduling tasks.
  • the availability of XWiki XML-RPC interface will let us develop a rich desktop extension interacting with the server through XMLRPC calls
CMS features ============
  • XWiki data design model let us develop rapidly advanced web applications
  • Rights policy can be managed by users who are not IT specialists
Professional support ====================
  • Mandriva has been successfully backed up by XPertNet team who has been bringing technical assistance and professional support when needed
Performance ===========
  • a single server hosting several XWiki MySQL databases and Tomcat supports 100,000 page views per day with good response time
Community involvement =====================
  • XWiki development community can bring support when we face technical issues.

Public Contact
First nameStéphane
Last nameLAURIÈRE
OrganizationMandriva
CountryFrance