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From YouTube: Knowledge Group: Recent draw.io integration and upcoming PDF export capabilities within GitLab wiki

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This video, taken by Product Manager for Knowledge Group Matthew Macfarlane, highlights GitLab's draw.io integration with our wiki and an upcoming feature related to PDF exports of wiki pages.

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Hi everyone, my name, is Matthew mcfarling I am the product manager for knowledge group in the plan stage at gitlab, I primarily cover the wiki or Pages functionality, as well as our Rich text and plain text. Editing capabilities today, I'm going to provide just a short overview of our Wiki capabilities, which continue to improve over the past couple of Milestones.

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Now to illustrate these capabilities, I'm going to share my screen and what you're seeing now is a Wiki available on our project level. We have a Wiki available on both the project level and the group level. Now on the group level. This allows you to share knowledge across multiple different projects, which we recognize as valuable, and that was introduced in thirteen five, a recent intro, a recent new feature that we introduced was this diagrams.io integration or drata.

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I o integration, and you can see right now on this knowledge group home page of my Wiki I, have drawn out a opportunity map, so existing opportunities that are in knowledge, the Knowledge Management space um and it's a really nice way to visualize work and a workflow within a gitlab Wiki and something that's relatively new to our capabilities.

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Now, you'll see on the right here that you're able to list Pages as well as sub Pages beneath different beneath your home page. So you can collapse that as well and there's a lot of basic functionality available in here that is relatively new and in 16 4. We are also adding the capacity to export these Pages as PDFs, which has been a highly requested feature.

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So if you are interested in trying out gitlabs Wiki once again, it is available both on the project level, as well as the group level. Now something interesting that you can do is when you go to the edited page, you can click in and edit the diagram that's in there. So this is that draw.io um integration that I was recently referring to.

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So, there's a lot of capabilities that you're able to do within this integration and when you've made your appropriate changes, you can simply save and exit um and what's great about the gitlab wiki is that those these changes are all tracked via this page history.

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So if I click on here, I can see the last update the author of that update, as well as the existing version now. This is all also tracked in your activity, metrics. So if you go to your user profile here, you'll see that that activity.

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That contribution is now available here to look at. So if you do or are a manager and at a high level, you want to understand what a contribution someone on your team is making towards a knowledge base. You can always go into their activity and filter by that update to wiki page um so great way to utilize the wiki.

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So once again, if you're looking to try gitlab for Wiki it's available for both at the group level, as well as the project level. At the moment, we are examining jobs to be done for this category to formalize our feature direction for other features beyond the io integration and look forward to the PDF export capabilities coming out in 16.4.

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