Monthly Archives: April 2010

Top Ten Things We Know About Wikis

This is a guest post by Nick Smith of Freedom Information Systems. Nick is presenting Confluence at NASA: Where No Wiki Has Gone Before at this year's Atlassian Summit. You'll find his original post at freedomis.com.Freedom is very excited to be speaking at this year's Atlassian Summit which takes place in San Francisco in just seven and a half weeks (June 8 - 11). In that presentation, we'll be discussing some of the things we've learned while designing and implementing wiki spaces for our clients,

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Documentation wiki theme now bundled with Confluence 3.2

Are you using your wiki for documentation? Atlassian developer extraordinaire, Jen Schumacher, announced the availability of the Confluence Documentation Theme back in December last year. With the release of Confluence 3.2, it's now a bundled plugin. Let's take a deeper look at how it works and how you can customise it for your needs.

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Enterprise Wiki Essentials: Confluence Global Permissions

Wikis are increasingly being adopted by the enterprise. When people hear the word wiki, Wikipedia often comes to mind. Based on the free platform, Mediawiki, Wikipedia is undoubtedly the world's most well known wiki. It's important to note that there are some key differences between a platform such as Mediawiki, and an enterprise wiki like Confluence. One of those key differences is Permissions.

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Increase wiki adoption with page templates

Encouraging adoption of an enterprise wiki can be a challenge. One way to increase adoption of your wiki is to provide some templates to your users to give them a head start in creating their wiki pages. In Confluence 3.2 we made some key improvements to Confluence page templates, including the ability to import a bundle of page templates.

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