Wiki Basics

Terminology

Confluence - Enterprise wiki provided by DoIT. We often use the terms "Confluence" and "Staff Wiki" interchangeably.
Space - Confluence organizes content into "Spaces." UMBC has several spaces; our space is the Library Space. The Dashboard lists all of the Spaces available at UMBC. You can also access a personal Space by logging into the Staff Wiki and clicking on your name at the top of the page, or by going to
```
 https://wiki.umbc.edu/display/~UMBC_USERNAME.
```
Parent Page - A page that has other pages created underneath it. A parent page may be a child of another page.
Children - These are pages created underneath the parent page and associated with it. A child of one page may be a parent of other pages.
Rich Text Editor - This editor allows you to enter content as you would in a Word document, and apply formatting simply by clicking icons on a toolbar.
Wiki Markup Editor - This editor allows you to edit Confluence pages directly in wiki markup language. Some advanced layout editing is only possible in the Wiki Markup Editor.
Labels - User-defined tag words that can be assigned to pages and bookmarks to categorize or identify content.

Left Menu - Displays expandable list of site contents.
- Click on the + symbol to expand the list; Click on the link name to go to the selected page
Menu Bar
- Breadcrumbs - see where you are in the wiki hierarchy and navigate to higher-level pages
- Browse - use the drop-down menu to view wiki contents by type (pages, attachments, labels, etc.)
- Log in - Log in to view restricted content
Page Functions
- Edit - edit the current page
- Add - add a new page, blog post, or attachment
- Tools - view page history and attachments

Confluence does not accept the following characters in the title of a page:
```
: @ / \ | ^ # $ ; ~ [ ] { } < >
```
Page titles must be unique within a space.

Confluence does not have a built-in spell checker, but you can use a browser-based spell checker.

Firefox has a built-in spell checker
Internet Explorer requires a spell checker add-on: http://www.ieaddons.com/en/details/Time_Savers/ieSpell/