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The following are the steps to create a wiki home page for the work your team is doing in an existing wiki space.

1. Navigate to the wiki page that is the most logical parent for your page.
2. Add a page, as described in Adding a Page or a Blog Post. 
3. Restrict viewing or editing of the page or both if you wish, as described in Restricting Who Can View and Edit Pages. 
4. Add child pages to your wiki home page to create a page family that is a useful hierarchy of pages for your team.
5. Consider adding a list of links that point to the child pages, as described in Putting a List of Child Pages on a Page. The left sidebar has these links, but some users hide that sidebar.  

Only a system administrator or a wiki administrator with a special permission can create a Space. Creating Spaces is usually not needed. If you can't find a Space that could contain your topic, or you want to hide a large number of pages on different topics all related to one large topic, send a request to NCICB Application Support (ncicb@pop.nci.nih.gov0 to request a Space and the LDAP Groups that will work in that Space.

To create a "wiki home page," open a page on the general topic that should contain your topic. Choose the page that's the most logical higher level container for your page (the same way you pick a high level topic in an outline, to put a topic under). On that page, click the Add Page link.

When the new page editing window opens, type your page title and text in the usual way. When you're done, click Save.

If you want to restrict viewing and editing of your wiki home page and its "child" pages, click the Edit tab, scroll down, click the link to EDIT Restrictions, and complete the dialog to restrict viewing, editing or both.

A Confluence wiki Space is a group of pages that can be administered together and may be browsed together.

For users who author and edit content, the Space serves to organize pages on closely related topics in one place. A Space can have many "page families," that is, a main or home page on a topic with any number of "child" pages. Each "child" page in turn can also have "child" pages, forming a hierarchical grouping of pages on one topic. The Tips page is an example of a "wiki home page" with many child pages.

All the pages in a Space can be administered together.

Note: Typically you do not need a Space in which to work. You can create a "page family" for your team in an existing Space.

This means the Space Administrator can set permissions for all the pages in a Space.

Note: If you need to hide all your pages, and your work covers many different topics (so you will have many page families), you should send a request to NCICB Application Support (ncicb@pop.nci.nih.gov) to ask that a Space and the LDAP Groupsthat can see and work in that Space be created. You need a USER Group (adds content) and a DEVELOPER Group (adds and removes content and can restrict page editing). Name your Space for your organization and your team or project, and name your Groups for your team.

Click the Browse Space link at the top right of any page, and click the tabs to see how you can view listings of the content of a Space, and monitor changes by watching the Space or subscribing to RSS.

The Space Administrator can also do the following for the entire Space.

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