About this

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service

This resource is operated and maintained by the Educational Technology Consultant's Group, which is part of Academic Computing, which is part of Content and Collaboration Group, Information Services and Technology at MIT.

How's it Work?

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The wiki uses Confluence, a popular enterprise wiki application developed by Atlassian Software.
We are currently (spring 2009) running Confluence version 2.7.3

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).
For instance:
You are currently in the 'Welcome to the Academic Computing Wiki', or 'TOP' space. This space is world-readable, but permissions are set such that anyone in the group confluence-users (anyone with an account) can add comments. 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 a member of the MIT Community, access to a restricted wiki space requiresTo get to any of the wiki's private spaces requires either:

• a valid MIT certificate
  and
  or
• to have logged in to the MIT Touchstone service.

AND

• membership in a Moira group or Stellar class list which has been granted access to the space
  or

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• to have been granted individual access to the space

For a non-MIT person, access to a restricted wiki space requires:

• a MIT Touchstone Collaboration Account.

AND

• membership in the appropriate Moira/Confluence group
  (which must be requested from the administrators)
  or
• to have been granted individual access to the space

All users should You must also have cookies and javascript enabled in your browser .

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settings.

• membership is generally managed by the administrator of the space in question (see below)

To have a space created for your group:

A wiki space needs to be requested and set up centrally. Contact confluence-space-request@mit.edu with the following information:

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You can request a wiki site using the Wiki Request Form

For Stellar-related class sites, access to the wiki space is linked to the Stellar faculty and student lists.

Try it out in the Test Space

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