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This resource is operated and maintained by the Content and Collaboration Group, Information Services and Technology at MIT. This is a pilot project.
How's it Work?
The wiki uses Confluence, a popular enterprise wiki application developed by Atlassian Software
Confluence is segmented into wiki 'Spaces'. A space can be either world readable or restricted, with varying permission levels, to members of a given group (or set of groups). Each space has an administrator or administrative group associated with it.
Members of the admin group can control some elements of the look and feel of the space and can manage the users and user group(s) associated with that space.
For instance:
You are currently in the 'Welcome to the MIT IS&T Wiki Service', or 'TOP' space. This space is world-readable, and permissions are set such that anyone in the group confluence-users (anyone with an account) can add comments.
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A wiki space needs to be requested and set up centrally. You can request a wiki site using the Class Wiki Request Form
For Stellar-related class sites, access to the wiki space is linked to the Stellar faculty and student lists.
To request a non-class site, please send email to et-consult@mit.edu with the following information:
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Try it out in the Test Space
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