What is a Wiki Space?

A wiki work space is an area inside the Confluence wiki system with:

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What is a Wiki Space good for?

A wiki space can be support a collaborative project where several users (or just one) collaboratively create a set of pages, accessed by a number of users - who may be able to just read the pages, comment on them, or modify the content as well.

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Who can access this Confluence Wiki?

• Anybody with a valid University of Canterbury login
• And via a Shibboleth login also anybody with a valid login at any educational or research institution partnering in the AAF Shibboleth Federation.
  

How do I get a Wiki Space?

Request the wiki space via the ICTS Helpdesk.

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• Wiki short name - a persistent identifier, e.g., LIBRSTAFF.  Only letters and digits allowed.
• Wiki long name - a descriptive name of the project. Up to one line.
• Preferred permission settings (see below).
• Preferred style (see TEST Spaces for examples).
  
  

Wiki Space Permissions

There is a fine-grained permission system. In a simple way, the following rights

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The following use cases illustrate what permission sets have been found useful

A small project among a few researchers

• Project leader has all permissions (including adminstration)
• Project participants have full access to all pages (everything but administration)
  

Departmental wiki

• HOD (or someone charged by HOD) has administrative access
• A group created for the department has create/modify/read/comment access
• Collaborators from other departments may be individually granted access.
• The wiki may or may not be readable to all UoC users (including anonymous users).