Wikis Landing Page

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Overview

The Confluence-based wikis.mit.edu service is available to the MIT community and its guests and collaborators. IS&T offers the MIT Wikis Service to provide MIT groups and organizations with collaborative web spaces. Any MIT community group, project, or organization can request a wiki space.

Benefits and Key Features

• Wiki spaces can be restricted to a small group of colleagues or can be opened up to the world.
• Integrates MIT's well-established Moira list management service to manage group permissions.
• For authorization, Wikis integrates with MIT's Touchstone authentication service.

How to Obtain

• To access an existing space, visit the MIT Wikis Service.
• To request your own Wikis space, Contact the IS&T Service Desk. Be sure to supply the following information:
  • Space Title: e.g. Energy Savings Initiative
  • Space Key: a short alphanumeric string which becomes part of the URL for the space (e.g. ENERGYSAVINGS)
• For additional information on accessing and requesting Wikis spaces, visit the IS&T Wikis page.

How to Use

• Confluence's user guide

Troubleshooting and FAQ's

• Group xxxx could not be found. Please confirm the existence of the group with a Confluence Administrator.
• How do I edit who has access to my wikis.mit.edu space?
• How do I request that a plugin be installed for the MIT Wiki Service?
• Is there a Maximum File Upload Size for MIT Wikis
• Sharing documents
• What is the quota for my MIT Wiki space?
• Where is Wiki Markup view in the wikis.mit.edu editor
• Will names of access control groups in wikis.mit.edu update automatically if the Moira group name is changed ?
• Why am I seeing wiki markup instead of Rich Text in MIT Wikis?
• User xxxxx could not be found. Please confirm his or her existence with a Confluence Administrator

Have Questions or Still Need Help?

• MIT Wiki Help Page
• Contact the IS&T Service Desk

Note: Since rules, page formats, and guidelines often differ from space to space, IS&T can only provide limited guidance to individual users.

Additional escalation information for Help Staff can be found here: [hd:An Introduction to Wikis at MIT] [hd:Escalation - Wikis General] [hd:Wiki - Create New Space]