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Wiki

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Wikis are web pages that any member of your community can create and edit using a WYSIWYG editor or html.

Ideal for authoring, aggregating, organizing, and sharing content with teams, departments, branch offices or the entire organization.

Key Features

  • Access Control - set permission levels to prevent unauthorized access to wiki pages or to create private or non-editable workspaces; assign permissions by individual, group or role; control whether users can view, modify or delete a wiki page
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  • Attachments - attach documents, images and files to your wiki page for others to view and download
  • Auditing - record & track all actions performed on a wiki page in the community, including the date and time of the action, who performed it, and a description of it
  • Authoring - single member or multi-authored wiki pages
  • Broadcast - broadcast new wiki pages or edits to members in the community
  • Browsing - browse wiki pages quickly and easily using an A-Z index
  • Commenting - comment on wiki pages stored in the community; turn commenting on/off
  • Descriptions - add/edit text describing a wiki (fully indexed for community search)
  • Following - monitor who's following a wiki and the activity on that page
  • Notifications - email subscribe to wikis and receive updates when changes are made: choose instant, daily, weekly or monthly notification options
  • Page Creation - create and index wiki pages easily using simple html or a WYSIWYG editor, including sub-pages with title auto-completion, as well as prompts to assist novice users 
  • Printing - print the contents of any wiki page using the printer-friendly view
  • Rating - rate wiki pages using a 1 to 5 rating system
  • Rename - change the name of the wiki application i.e. Corporate Policies
  • Search - find any information in the wiki using simple Google-like search; results are ranked, summarized and highlighted
  • Social Sharing - email or share a link to a wiki page with any member of your community or network with just a single click
  • Tagging - apply rich social tags to any page to create dynamic relationships between content; search for related content using tag clouds
  • Version Control - add multiple versions of a page; perform in-line comparisons of pages; set the number of versions to keep; lock versions for editing preventing overwrites; see profiles of members who added a version
  • Voting - vote on wiki pages - thumbs up, thumbs down
  • Widgets - configure and dynamically display wiki contents on any area of the community

Typical Wiki Uses

  • Best practices
  • Standard operating procedures
  • Policies
  • Instructions
  • Training materials

WYSIWYG Editor Features

  • Edit wiki pages online in a web browser with a rich set of editing options, including text formatting and sizing, copy/paste buttons, numbered and bulleted lists, indentation, tables, line breaks and more
  • Format text and images, integrating them in wiki pages, all in a WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editing environment
  • Support for viewing and editing HTML source code - ideal for power users such as developers
  • Insert pre-formatted HTML, XML, javascript or tag snippets right into the WYSIWYG editor for more advanced page layouts and formats
  • Online spell checker built right in to the editor, highlights misspelled words, duplicates and more

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