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Overview and guidelines | Applying
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new wiki | Setting up your wiki
Overview and guidelines:
Any member of the MIT community can request
a Confluence wiki space for use by their group or project.
Applying for new wiki :
To go directly to the wiki-creation form, visit https://wikis.mit.edu/request/wiki/#fragment-2
Form answers:
- Space Title: Start with "Libraries" (e.g. "Libraries
Instruction Toolkit")
- Preferred space key: The key, a version of your title,
- must be unique
to this space
- can't contain spaces or dashes
- should be short
- ALLCAPS
- should start with LIB (e.g. "LIBINSTRUCT")
- Membership options: "Groups available to you" in
the drop-down menu (includes only groups to which you already belong)
- Choose a group, hit "add group," and its name will appear in the
box "selected groups."
- About groups in Moira * | Exception **
- You
don't have to choose any groups now - you can add permissions to groups and individuals after the wiki
is published.
- Please provide your MIT email address: This will usually
be automatically filled in with your complete address@mit.edu
- Notes: Briefly describe what your
wiki will be used for.
- Please indicate whether this wiki space is associated with one
of the following MIT units: Choose Libraries.
- Hit "submit this request."
- An
email will arrive from MIT IS&T: Athena User Accounts
http://web.mit.edu/accounts/www/
Phone: 617-253-1325
usually by the next day, containing your wiki's URL and other information.
Setting up your wiki
- When you receive your approval email, click on the URL link to surf to your home page.
Set permissions:
- Choose "Browse Space" (at right top)
- Choose "Space Admin"
- Choose "Security > Permissions" on the left side of the Space Admin. page.
- Chose "edit permissions" in any category.
- Individuals: Entering an individual's MIT Kerberos name will cause their full name to appear on the list of individuals.
- Group: Remember that you can only grant permissions to a group to which you already belong.
- About groups in Moira *
- Anonymous Access: use this only if you want the whole world to be able to read or edit your wiki
- Remember always to save your work before exiting the page, or it will revert to the previous state.
- More permissions information: Controlling access to your Wiki space
Set "Look and Feel"
- Choose "Browse Space"
- Choose "Space Admin"
- Choose "Look and Feel"
- Themes - most people like the Default Theme
To replace the generic MIT logo with the Libraries logo
- Download the image to your hard disk
- Choose "Space Admin > Look and Feel > Change Space Logo."
- Use the box to browse to the image on your HD.
- Chose "Upload Logo" - and the logo for your site will change.
- Remember always to save your work before exiting the page, or it will revert to the previous state.
* About groups in Moira
A mailing list is not always a group.
When you create a new mailing list, you have the option of also turning
it into a group. If you will want your list members to have permissions
on your wiki, be sure to make it a group. If the group to which you want to give permissions is not on the drop-down groups menu, ask a member of that group to add you.
We are all members of all-lib, which is both a list and a group:
Choosing "display list characteristics" for all-lib in the athena
list management page tells us, in part:
List: all-lib
Description: Libraries staff list - all staff
This list is a mailing list.
This list is a Group and its ID is: 28676
Case in point: dsg-lib was created as a list, but not a group - so when
we first tried to give dsg-lib permissions in the DOME Selection Group
wiki, we failed.
The IS&T wiki administrators are able to turn lists into groups,
after which, permissions can be applied. Ask
the wiki administrators for help.
** Exception: because of the evolution of this service,
several groups, including "all-lib," are named "confluence-groupname."
If you can't find your group in the alphabet, look under "c.
If you
don't see the group (not the same as a list!) that you want, ask
a member of the group to add you to the group through Moira.
last edited mlcar
4/4/08
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