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One of the features we have been asked about most frequently in the last 3.5 years since ChatGPT came out has been to add an AI writing feature. Replacing human academics with AIs that write long texts containing made-up references, arguing for or against anything, must be one of the worst possible inventions from the… read more |
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One of the quieter but most consequential changes in Fidus Writer 4.1 is the overhaul of the fiduswriter-gitrepo-export plugin. What started as a way to publish compiled books to GitHub or GitLab has become a fully fledged, user-controlled publishing pipeline: supporting individual documents, multiple git hosting platforms, and a range of export formats including DOCX… read more |
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Within the editing world, there is an ongoing controversy about the usage of DOCX by the new Euro-Office office suite. And so we have been receiving questions and comments on how Fidus Writer related to this. The discussion has made me feel the need to explain some things here publicly so that misconceptions stop being… read more |
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We are thrilled to announce the release of Fidus Writer 4.1 — a major update that brings significant security enhancements, powerful new features, and deeper integration with the tools you already use. Whether you are writing your next paper, collaborating with colleagues across the globe, or managing citations for an entire research group, Fidus Writer… read more |
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We are thrilled to announce the release of Fidus Writer 4.0, the most significant update to our collaborative academic writing platform in nearly a decade! Originally planned as version 3.12, this release grew into a major milestone packed with transformative features, accessibility enhancements, and technical upgrades. After rigorous testing and refinements (now at version 4.0.5), Fidus… read more |
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Since 2020, Next Generation Internet (NGI) programmes, part of European Commission’s Horizon programme, fund free software in Europe using a cascade funding mechanism (see for example NLnet’s calls). This year, according to the Horizon Europe working draft detailing funding programmes for 2025, we notice that Next Generation Internet is not mentioned any more as part of… read more |
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Fidus Writer, the open-source real-time collaborative web-based online editor for academia, has secured funding from the NGI0 Entrust Trustworthiness and Data Sovereignty initiative. This funding, provided by NLnet with support from the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet program, aims to enhance Fidus Writer’s capabilities and broaden its reach within the academic community. Project Overview Fidus Writer has… read more |
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Fidus Writer 3.11.11 is not a major release, but it does contain some features that a lot of users have been waiting on for a long time. Most importantly: The ability to export comments on documents (and their answers) to DOCX and ODT files. Comments are exported directly to ODT files. In most cases that… read more |
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There are several ways of adding Fidus Writer to a publishing workflow, such as the OJS plugin that allows it to be part of a professional peer review process or the git-repo plugin that allows the publishing of books to a GitLab or GitHub repository. And now there is one more way: Fidus Writer Website…. read more |
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We released the first beta of Fidus Writer in 2012. Ten years later, multiple research universities, publishers, libraries, and individual academics are using it as part of their publication workflows. Long-form text writing tools take a lot of work: Book writers update and amend their texts for years or decades. The tools they are using… read more |