Wiki (York Wiki Service)

The wiki is our internal web space, where staff can create and edit content collaboratively. Spaces can be restricted, making it ideal for publishing work in progress or team-specific information, such as internal processes and documentation.

All staff have access to the wiki. Due to licensing limitations, we recommend that student-facing content is not hosted on the wiki.

The product we use for York Wiki Service is called Confluence Cloud, which is provided by the vendor Atlassian.

Key features

• Quickly create simple web pages, from plain text to adding audio, video, checklists and tags.
• Manage access: wiki spaces can be private to you, shared with specific groups or made available to the public.
• Access control: Members of the university can also be granted edit access to pages and spaces.
• Publish internal-facing information such as team workflows and processes, departmental knowledge bases, staff policies and project overviews.
• Collaborate with others and see changes that are being made in real time.
• Digital whiteboards: create a whiteboard in your wiki space and collaborate with up to 60 wiki users. Work with sticky notes, text and images.
• Subscribe to specific pages to get email notifications when updates are published.
• Wiki pages can’t be indexed by our site search, but individual results can be added for specific search keywords. Contact commmunications-support@york.ac.uk with details of the page(s) you would like to have included and the search keywords that should apply.