A Wiki is a website which allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users. We use open source Wiki software called DokuWiki.

Read the DokuWiki user manual manual or the syntax guide for further details.

You can read how DokuWiki handles access control here. Additional information with respect to our Wiki environment:

• All EECS system users are able to login to all Wikis.
• Through the ACL Editor, you can control the namespaces and pages that users can read and write in your wiki.
• It is no longer possible for you to manually add non-EECS users to your Wiki site. If you need to give a non-EECS user access to your site, then please contact the technical support team, and we will create a system account and limit access to your Wiki.
• System groups such as admin, faculty, grad, tech, or ugrad are automatically integrated into the wiki. You can use @GROUP in the ACL manager where GROUP is any system group.
• Wiki admins can create internal wiki groups using the “ ” plugin.
• It is no longer possible to automatically restrict access to wiki namespace or page via course distribution list. If this functionality is necessary, you can create a manual group using the plugin above.
• @eecs or @user group?

On our Dokuwiki installation, you can add a sidebar to any page. The default sidebar is called “sidebar”, and it can be overridden at any level. For more information on sidebars, please see here.

The following Dokuwiki plugins are available on our site:

• Box Plugin - highlight important parts of your wiki in boxes that stand out
• Comment Plugin - add comments/notes to your Wiki source that won't be shown on the page
• Gallery Plugin - allows you to embed an automatically created image gallery into a wiki page
• IFrame Plugin - display another web page inside your wiki page
• KaTeX Plugin - parse TeX expressions and render them into math/chemical equations [Replaces previous “math” plugin - new syntax]
• Numbered Headings Plugin - Adds numbered headings to DokuWiki without changing the actual behavior of the standard headings.
• Typography Plugin - Enable typesetting capabilities with CSS font properties such as font face, size, weight, and colour of text [replaces previous color highlight plugin]
• Virtual Group Plugin - Create virtual user groups in DokuWiki
• Video Share Plugin - Easily embed videos from various Video Sharing sites like YouTube or Vimeo