A wiki is a website whose users can add, modify, or delete its content via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a rich-text editor.
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SharePoint vs Confluence Wiki
I have been using SharePoint now for 3 years and I really like it and would really like all employees in our company to move over to SharePoint from our Confluence Wiki.
I want them to have their ...
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Is there a better Editor for a SharePoint 2010 wiki?
What editor would you suggest to use for SharePoint wikis?
We are not so happy with the built in HTML one (because of image support)
I opened another question about how to use Windows Live Writer, ...
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Are there a wiki in sharepoint that supports markdown?
I'm wondering if there are a wiki for SharePoint that supports markdown? Or if there are a way to change the existing one so that it can be edited using markdown.
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Wiki Markup Language
Does the 2010 SharePoint wiki offer improved support for lightweight markup language? If so, where can I find the documentation?
For example, is there markup for bold text - external links - images ?
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Side-by-side web parts on a wiki page: possible?
I want to have two small web parts (weather and traffic reports) arranged side-by-side, rather than one on top of the other, on a wiki page (Home.aspx). It appears that I'll need a web part zone to do ...
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How to use Windows Live Writer with a SharePoint 2010 wiki?
Is there any way to use Windows Live Writer with a SharePoint 2010 wiki?
It should be possible by using the MetaWeblogAPI that hooks into SharePoint 2010, as per
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Best way to backup a WSS / SharePoint wiki?
We're using WSS to track a project I'm working on, and I'm storing a lot of research within the wiki that I'd like to keep backups of.
I'm wondering what would be the best way to go about this? Is ...
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What are the best wiki options for SharePoint
We are using MOSS 2007 enterprise. Can anyone recommend a good wiki solution for us to use?
all the best
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Structuring wiki pages with templates in SharePoint 2007
I need to create a custom template for SharePoint 2007 wiki pages. With ability to add multiple web parts zones on Wiki Page. Is it possible to do that, as I have read from online that wiki pages in ...
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Most Popular/Recently Updated Wiki page
I want to display in a webpart whats the top 5 ( recenlty updated and Most Popular wiki Pages). By most Popular I mean not be STAR rating but the most visited Wiki page.
How do I do it? My idea is to ...
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Save Site as Template: Why is the “include content” section available for some sites but not others?
For some of our SharePoint sites and sub-sites, the "include content" checkbox is not available on the Save Site as Template page (in particular, Wiki sites). By "not available" I mean that the ...
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SharePoint Wiki Versus SharePoint Blog for building a knowledge base library for our company
I am new to SharePoint and after reading about the available features inside SharePoint 2013 I have decided to either:-
Build a Wiki Site using the Wiki Page Library
OR to use the Collaboration -> ...
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Make dropdownlist on ribbon visible only on wikipages library
I am following this tutorial.
http://www.wictorwilen.se/Post/Creating-a-SharePoint-2010-Ribbon-extension-part-1.aspx
However I need that the dropdownlist can only be seen in wiki pages library. I ...
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Not able to add a webpart to a wiki page on teamsites
I have deployed a custom webpart to a TeamSite using Visual Studio. I get this error message when i try to insert it to the home page.
"A Web Part or Web Form Control on this Page cannot be displayed ...
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Sharepoint 2010 wiki include content
We have some knowledge that we have organized in a confluence wiki. The content is the form of knowledge reports,that we have matched to wiki pages. But this content has a particularity. Some parts of ...
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How to display list of Enterprise Wiki Categories?
I have an Enterprise Wiki site with wiki category items built in the Metadata Term Store. I cannot figure out how to display a list of all of the wiki categories that link to a list of wiki pages ...
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Creating Wiki Page in SharePoint 2010
When i try to add a wiki site to my main site, i get an page that says "Error - An Unexpected error has occurred - Troubleshoot issue...". This isn't a particularly helpful error message and i'm ...
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Is there a way to customize the landing page for a Wiki Library
I'm trying to customize the landing page of an SP2010 Wiki Page Library, so far without success.
From looking at a couple of blogs (for example this one), there seems to be a feature called ...
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Wiki Syntax to Create Child Page From Current Page
This seems like it should be a very simple task/question.
We are currently on SharePoint 2007.
I am in the process of editing a particular department's Wiki page, so imagine the breadcrumb to the ...
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How to categorise/tag WSS wiki pages?
I am using the WSS wiki, and as it's getting bigger I could really do with organising the pages better.
Is there a good way to categorise wiki pages into groups/categories, or even to tag them?
I am ...
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System Documentation In Sharepoint
I need to create a repository of system documentation in Sharepoint. The intended audience need quick and easy access to the documentation (= searchable), and must also be able to navigate easily ...
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Changing the default home page (non programatically) wiki SP 2007
I am brand new to SP. I have been charged with creating a site for our group. I posted a question last Friday regarding my default home page, where the view generated always has a grey bar on the ...
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Activating and deactivating publishing feature breaks SP2010 wikis?
I have created an Enterprise Wiki site on SharePoint 2010.
I have added some pages to the wiki - that worked fine.
By default, it seems that an Enterprise Wiki has publishing turned off. If I ...
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How is the bookmark link feature enabled?
For a project I'm working on, I'm trying to setup a glossary of terms in a SharePoint wiki page. I wanted to be able to link directly to terms but when I tried using regular html # section links, a ...
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New to Sharepoint. Best practices in wiki creation?
I am brand new to SP. I have been charged with creating a site for our group. I have posted a couple of questions previously, which you folks have been very helpful with.
I have been asked to make a ...
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“Specified title already exists” error when trying to create a new page
I am trying to create a new page by going to "Site Actions/new page" first it gives me a little modal page which contains two buttons Create and Cancel and following message:
In order to create ...
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How to programmatically add a page to a SharePoint wiki
We are considering migrating from one system to SharePoint. Assuming I can correctly read the existing pages, how would I automate the addition to our SharePoint system ?
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Enterprise Wiki: how to customize SitePages
I've created a Wiki Page Library and I've noticed that when creating a new page, it doesn't have rating/categories/edit/history facilities as in the Pages library created by the publishing feature ...
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Importing SP 2007 wiki into SP 2010 to remove “page has been customized from its template” message
We have migrated a very out-of-the-box SP2007 to SP2010 (DB attach) and have performed the visual upgrade for all sites.
Now when I open some wiki pages I get the notification: "The current page has ...
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MediaWiki-like Special Pages under SharePoint 2010 Wiki?
I watched this video and wondered what those "latest pages", "popular pages", and "request pages" links in the left-hand menu? Are these standard SharePoint 2010 Server Wiki Features like the ...
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Enterprise wiki migration
We have a couple of Enterprise Wiki's that were thought to be self-contained, but now want to consolidate the content together. I figured this would be easy, just open the Pages folder in Windows ...
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How do I add custom fields to a wiki page?
I create a new wiki pages library (on SharePoint Foundation 2010) and create some new custom fields (1 choice and 1 text). When I create a new Wiki Page these custom fields are not shown on the web ...
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Trouble creating wiki page template for content types!
Just assumed it was as easy as creating a document content type but when I tried it for the first time, to my surprise I could not do it. Where do I download a wiki page template? Why can’t I just ...
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Web Part “Hidden” option is greyed out on team site wiki pages
For all the Web Parts on my SP 2010 team site wiki page, the "Hidden" option is greyed out (under Edit Web Part > Layout).
How can I activate this option?
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Updating a wiki page with the REST API
How do you correctly update a SharePoint 2013 wiki page using the REST API?
Three basic capabilities I am interested in:
Reading an existing page (content only)
Updating an existing page
Creating a ...
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Is there an easy way to turn 1300+ individual documents into a Wiki?
Nearly a year ago, I'd asked this question. Amazingly, the project is moving forward faster than a speeding snail. Right now, we've got all of the data imported as both Word and HTML docs, 'cause no ...
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Creating a Categories term store to manage my Wiki Pages Vs creating multiple wikis sub-sites
I want to create a publishing site which have enterprise wiki to store and manage internal procedures for our company, so I find that there are two different approaches which I can follow to organize ...
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How to send automatic email/s to the approve/s of content on my enterprise wiki
I have created a publishing site which contain enterprise wiki and for some sites I define that I contents require approval before being published. Currently the new wiki article will not be published ...
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Managing my user permissions for my Publishing site enterprise wiki
I have created 5 separate enterprise wiki sites, which can be accessed using the following URLs:-
…Wiki/HrManuals
..Wiki/SalesManuals
..Wiki/TechnicalManuals
..Wiki/legalManuals
Now I need to ...
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BUG: Wiki article links get escaped on save when required field wasn't filled in
I'm having a weird problem on one of my client's systems. The have a SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Wiki. I extended the wiki content type and included some extra fields (site columns). I also created a ...
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CTRL+V @ wiki to trigger image upload from clipboard
Can I upload an image to a document library using javascript?
Can I use that information together with, for example, clipboardData?
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Limit visibility of Site Content and structure, customize Sitemanager.aspx?
In my current scenario the users would like to move wiki pages from one folder to another.
The only way to do this is using the site content and structure and it works fine.
However, the site ...
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Warning about unsafe content when saving wikipage using Sharepoint Designer
After editing a wiki page using SharePoint Designer 2010 I have stared to get the message "Content in the embedded form field maybe changed by the server to remove unsafe content. Do you want to ...
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Are there customizations available for pasting images or screenshots to wiki
I would like to copy an image to a SharePoint wiki as easily as I can copy it to a word document - for example, pasting a screenshot to a wiki, getting asked for the file name, and getting the image ...
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Choosing the most appropriate solution
I hope you guys can help as I'm new to Sharepoint development and it appears to have a million and one ways to achieve any goal!
I need to provide our staff a place on the intranet to enter product ...
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How do I configure required columns on Wiki pages?
In a SharePoint 2010 Wiki page library, if I add metadata columns to the page library, something like "Category" and make it a required column. When I go and create a new Wiki Page in that library ...
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Create a new wiki page using the 2013 Client Library
I'm using the SharePoint 2013 Client Library and am trying to generate new wiki articles.
I'm able to connect, retrieve the web, find the list, but I can't add items. I feel like I need to be using ...
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sharepoint 2007 wiki customization
I have been asked to customize a SharePoint 2007 wiki site into a 'Wikipedia' like interface and functionality.
After a bit of goggling it turns out that wiki's are not that readily customizable!!
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How do I publish SharePoint 2007 wiki articles to single MS Word document?
I have a SharePoint wiki with several separate articles that I would like to consolidate into a single MS Word document. The articles are in a standard SharePoint 2007 wiki with no customizations.
I ...
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Using SyntaxHighlighter in SharePoint Wiki?
Has anyone been able to get a package like SyntaxHighlighter to work with SharePoint wikis?
