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What is a wiki?

A wiki is an environment for wiki content. We have the following wikis:

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child page

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A child page is a page that is subordinate to another. 

  • When you are viewing any page, you can

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  • determine whether it has one or more child pages.

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  • In most wikis wiki spaces on the NCI Wiki scroll to the end of the page. If there is , the sidebar provides a list of links under the heading Children, the page has child pages.If necessary select the link to Show the child pagesrepresenting the child pages of the current page.
  • To create a child page, select click the Create button above the page contentContent icon in the upper right, select a template, and click Create. Create child pages for content that is related to the content of the higher level page, but more specific.

What is a wiki space?

A Confluence wiki space is a group of pages that are administered together. For readers and page , authors, and editors, a space serves to organize pages on closely related topics in one place.

To navigate to and browse a wiki space:

  • Click Spaces in the upper left and select the link for a space in from the list on the Dashboard.

A space opens at its " wiki home page. " Like every Confluence page, this " wiki home page " can have " child pages."

  • To view Scroll down to see the links to the " child pages, open the sidebar."

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Typically the child pages of a " wiki home page " are " home pages " for major topics in the space. The Wiki FAQs, Tips and Guidelines page is an example of a " wiki home page " with child pages.

Each child page can serve as a topic " home page, " he the top level page of a " page family. " A space can contain many " page families."

Each topic " home page " can have any number of " child " pages. Each " child " page in turn can also have " child " pages. This forms a hierarchical grouping of pages (page family) on one topic.

To see view the page hierarchy:

  • Click the Pages option on the Browse menu at the top right above the document window.Then click the Tree link to see the page hierarchyTools (...) icon above the page title, on the right side of the page. Select View in Hierarchy.