Archives for Michael Knighten

Confluence Hosted: Invitations and BarnRaising

This is the second in a series of instructional posts for Confluence Hosted users, to be simultaneously published on the Atlassian News Blog and the Hosted wiki blogs. For more about Confluence Hosted, click here. In the first post of this series, we discussed Getting Started with Seeding and Scaffolding as a way to get some content into your wiki and start creating interest within your organization. In this post, we'll discuss how you invite other users to interact with the wiki, and further how

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Atlassian Translations

With this week's release of JIRA 3.9.3 we have for the first time bundled complete professional translations, in French and German, with the product. From the JIRA 3.9.3 Release Notes: The French and German language packs have been completely rewritten and are much more comprehensive than ever before. The administration sections of JIRA are now completely translated. To achieve this, we recently engaged a professional translation company to provide German and French versions of JIRA. These translations

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Confluence Hosted: Getting Started with Seeding and Scaffolding

This is the first in a series of instructional posts for Confluence Hosted users, to be simultaneously published on the Atlassian News Blog and the Hosted wiki blogs. You've heard over and over again that wikis are the hot new thing in corporate applications, the collaboration tool of the future. You've done your homework, performed some research, asked some geeky but well-informed mates, and finally, grudgingly, agreed that, yes, Atlassian's Confluence is the only real answer for enterprise wiki

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Confluence Translations Now Available

We're excited to announce that professional internationalisations of Confluence, in German and French, are now available for download. Please visit our Translations space for more details and to download. Soon we will be adding additional internationalisations for JIRA. We currently have beta versions of the JIRA translations available via a QA instance for review; if you would like to assist in our QA, please contact me for more information. As part of our efforts toward ongoing translation consistency,

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Announcing Confluence Hosted

I'm happy to report that today Atlassian launched Confluence Hosted, an exciting new way for more people to use the world's most popular enterprise wiki. Confluence Hosted allows companies to sign-up and immediately begin using the service, without need for the lengthy deployment cycles demanded by most internal IT organizations; bypass the installation, testing, distribution, and other implementation processes and go straight to using the product. Upgrades are performed automatically and invisibly,

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