Wiki Administration

Project owners and wiki page creators can make some administrative updates for wikis. These updates include changing edit and delete access rights for a wiki page and changing a project’s wiki markup language.

Note:

Only an organization administrator can change an organization’s default wiki markup language (see Set the Organization’s Default Wiki Markup Language).

Configure Edit and Delete Rights for Wiki Pages

You can set up edit permissions so users can edit the wiki content, create child pages, or restore deleted versions. You can set up delete permissions so users can delete a wiki page or remove a version from the Page History tab.

Access rights are granted to a project role, not to a particular user. A project owners can always edit or delete any wiki page and can grant edit and delete rights to other roles. If you created a wiki page, you can assign its edit and delete access to other roles.

As a project member, you could lose your edit or delete rights for the page you create if you allow other users to edit its access rights and then another user changes the edit or delete rights to Owners only.

To change edit and delete permissions for a wiki page:

  1. Open the wiki page.
  2. Click Edit.
  3. Click the Access Rights tab.
  4. From the Edit Access list or the Delete Access list, select the project role. By default, it’s set to Members and Owners.
    Select this option ... To assign the access to ...

    All

    All organization users. Use this option to enable all users in your organization to edit or delete the page.

    Members and Owners

    All project users. In a shared project, users in your organization can view the wiki page, but they can’t edit or delete it.

    Owners

    Project owners only. Project members can view the page, but they can’t edit or delete it. In a shared project, organization users can also view the wiki page, but can’t edit or delete it.
  5. Click Save.

Change a Project’s Wiki Markup Language

A project's wiki markup language is defined when the project is created. If you're a project owner, you can change the markup language for new pages and comments, but existing wiki pages and comments will continue to use the original wiki markup language.

Here's how to change a project’s wiki markup language:

  1. In the left navigator, click Project Administration Project Administration.
  2. Click Properties.
  3. In the Properties page, from Markup Language, select the wiki markup language.