An Enterprise wiki helps users capture and publish knowledge that can be shared across the enterprise. When an organization needs an easy content editing experience in a single location for co-authoring content, conducting discussions, and managing projects, consider creating an Enterprise wiki.
- To create an Enterprise wiki by using Central Administration
Verify that you have the following administrative credentials:
- To use Central Administration, the user account that is performing this procedure must be a member of the Farm Administrators group.
NOTE: You can also create an Enterprise wiki as a sub-site of another site by clicking New Site on the Site Actions menu.
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In the Web Application section, click the Web Application drop-down list to select the Web application where you want to create the Enterprise wiki.
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In the Title and Description section, type a title in the Title box and, optionally, type a description in the Descriptionbox.
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In the Web Site Address section, select / to create the Enterprise wiki at the root of the Web application, or select/sites/ to create the Enterprise wiki site at a specific path. If you select /sites/, you must also type the site name.
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In the Template Selection section, click the Publishing tab, and then click Enterprise Wiki.
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In the Primary Site Collection Administrator section, type the user name for the user who will be the site collection administrator.
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In the Secondary Site Collection Administrator section, type the user name for the secondary administrator of the site collection.
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Designating a secondary site collection administrator is a best practice to ensure that someone can manage the site collection when a primary site collection administrator is not present.
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If you are using quotas to manage storage for site collections, in the Quota Template section, click a template in the Select a quota template list.
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Click OK.
- Create an Enterprise wiki by using Windows PowerShell
Verify that you meet the following minimum requirements:
- See Add-SPShellAdmin.
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On the Start menu, click All Programs.
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Click Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products.
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Click SharePoint 2010 Management Shell.
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From the Windows PowerShell command prompt window (that is, PS C:>), type the following commands:
- To display all the site templates, type the following command:Get-SPWebTemplate
- To create a variable that contains the name of the Enterprise wiki template, type the following command:$wikitemp = Get-SPWebTemplate “ENTERWIKI#0”
- To create an Enterprise wiki site, type the following command:
New-SPSite http://yoursite.com/Wiki -OwnerAlias <domainuser>
-Template $wikitemp
Where <domainuser> is the user name of the site owner.
