Confluence Wiki Requests, FAQ, Tips and Policy

After you've read the policy, the request form is here: http://brown.edu/wikirequest
Note: You do currently need to either be on campus or use VPN to access this form. http://cis.brown.edu/policy/wiki.html Brown has licensed the software from a company called Atlassian. The product name is Confluence. http://wiki.brown.edu Yes. Confluence User Documentation That depends on whether the wiki owner has chosen to make the wiki "world-readable" or "login required". You need to log in to see it because it was created with a "log in required" setting. The wiki spaces you see without logging in are ones that anyone can read. First, log in. Click the star to the right of the wiki spaces you want to see in your own list. Then click the "My" tab. Your browser should default to the My tab in the future. To see all spaces again, just click on the "All" tab. No. A part of our service definition states a log in for wiki page editing. That log in account must be a Brown University username and password. If you know someone who does not have one but needs to edit your wiki pages, please contact the Brown Card Office to begin the process of getting that person a Brown University username and password. Technically speaking yes, but it would be against our policy. The reason we have this policy is we found that people would spam the server with material that is not representative of Brown University and with such volume it would sometimes make the server unavailable. You should have received an email from your original request with a link back to your request. Use that link, log in and then add the official Brown username or official Brown email address for the person you want to have access. That depends on where the page is in your wiki space. Think of the user permissions and your page hierarchy like an inverted pyramid. As you work down your page hierarchy, you can get more specific/more restrictive permissions, but you can't get less restrictive as you work down the page hierarchy unfortunately. For someone to have access to a page down in the hierarchy, they also need to have permission to the pages above it. Contact the Brown Help Desk. If you are the administrator/owner of the wiki, log in, click Browse Space, click Space Admin, click Permissions. Either change the permissions to your existing people or groups. Yes. Builder is a third-party plug-in that can help you to customize your site to look just about any way you like. The only downside is you need to really know what you're doing with cascading style sheets. So if you know css and want to customize a bit more. Go right ahead. Here's the Builder 2.x doc Second question first, contact the Brown Help Desk.
Here's the list of installed plugins and macros: Adaptavist Content Formatting Macros, Adaptavist Theme Builder, Advanced Macros, Attachment Extractors, Attachments Macros, Basic Macros, BloggingRPC, Calendar, Chart, Clickr Theme, Code Macro, Compatibility Macros, Confluence Contributors, Confluence Usage Stats, Dynamic Task List Macros, Excel, Group Signup, HTML, IM Presence Macros, IM Presence NG, Information Macros, Layout Macros, Left Navigation Theme, Live Search Macros, Near Infinity Survey Macros, Page Information Tools, Table of Contents, Tabular Metadata, Task List Macros, TinyMCE Editor, Tracking, User Listener, Voting Macros, WebDAV

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