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XWiki

From 15.02.2024 the manufacturer support for the Atlassian services ends. This affects the Confluence wiki service (https://confluence.desy.de), among others.

In order to continue to offer a central wiki service, IT will provide the product XWiki from the beginning of 2024. You may reach the service via https://xwiki.desy.de.

Information / Help / Documentation

 

Status of the Migration from Confluence to XWiki

07.10.2025 - The Confluence service will be discontinued

On 07.10.2025, the web address https://confluence.desy.de will be deactivated following a discussion in the Computer User Committee. The Confluence service will no longer be available from this point on.

 

Mid-August 2025 - Migration from Confluence to XWiki finished

Since mid-August 2025, the migration from Confluence to XWiki has been completed. All spaces have been successfully migrated.

All spaces on confluence.desy.de are now accessible in read-only mode.

 

End of July 2024 - Begin of the automated Migration

From the end of July, the automated migration of Confluence Spaces to XWiki (https://xwiki.desy.de) will begin as follows:

  • 20 daily migrations of spaces with only 1 page
  • 20 daily migrations of spaces which haven't been updated for one year or longer

 

Automated migration into the Test-System (https://it-xwiki-tst.desy.de) with agreed procedure:

  • Starting with all spaces which have admins from the Registry-Namespace "IT"
  • then, migration of spaces which have been recently edited (one year ago or sooner) and containing more then one page. Beginning with 2-paged spaces with increasing page counts after.
  • Additionally: Manual migration of big spaces (50+ pages)

 

Overall: All other spaces to be discussed manually

For further details please see further down on this page

 

30.01.2024 - Begin of the first Migrations to the Test Server
  • First Migrations to the XWiki test server are taking place, on which the content can be checked by the responsible Space Admins.

 

Documentation

If anything is unclear about the use of XWiki, please first consult the official XWiki documentation and the DESY XWiki FAQ.
The DESY XWiki FAQ contains the most frequently asked questions and answers. These will be continuously expanded, especially during the introductory phase of XWiki at DESY.

Please note that the official XWiki documentation is only available in english. For non fluent english speakers we recommend using translation tools like DeepL, or the translator function of your browser.

Contact

If your question has not been answered on these pages, please contact the XWiki-Team (e-mail: xwiki.service@desy.de), or, if you have more general questions, the central DESY IT helpdesk (e-mail: uco@desy.de, Tel: 5005).

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