Wiki overview
What the wiki is for, and who reads, creates and edits its pages.
The Wiki holds explanations and reference pages that problems and other pages link to, such as how loops work or how to read input from a file. You write an explanation once, and problems point to it instead of repeating the same text.
Where to find it
Section titled “Where to find it”- In the sidebar: Wiki. The arrow beside it expands the page tree.
- In search (Ctrl K): Wiki; type part of a page’s title or text and the Wiki group lists the pages themselves (Reading and search).
- At
/wiki; a single page is at/wiki/<id>.
Everyone who signs in can open the wiki, students included, but each person sees only the pages they may read.
Who can read a page
Section titled “Who can read a page”When you create a page, you choose who can read it:
| Readers | Who sees the page |
|---|---|
| Public | Everyone who signs in. |
| Organisation | Members of the organisation, students included, and everyone who studies or works in its courses. To users of other organisations the page does not exist. |
Only a system administrator can later change a page’s readers or its owner.
Who can create and edit
Section titled “Who can create and edit”| Role | Creates | Edits |
|---|---|---|
| Organisation admin or teacher | Public pages and pages of their organisation | Their own public pages and every page of their organisation |
| Group teacher (group admin) | Public pages and pages of the group’s organisation | Their own public pages and every page of that organisation |
| Course owner or teacher | Public pages and pages of the course’s organisation | Their own public pages and every page of that organisation |
| Course assistant | Public pages only | Their own pages only |
| Student, or organisation member with no other role | – | – |
| System administrator | Any page | Every page; changes readers and owner |
- A public page is edited only by its owner (and system administrators).
- An organisation page is edited together by all of that organisation’s editors: its admins, teachers, group teachers, and the owners and teachers of its courses.
- Students never create or edit pages.
People who cannot create pages don’t see the New page button.
Page states
Section titled “Page states”| State | What readers see | What editors see |
|---|---|---|
| Draft | Nothing: the page doesn’t exist for them. | The page in the list and the tree, marked with a pencil, ready to edit. |
| Published | The page. | The editor. Changes reach readers as soon as they are saved. |
| Archived | Only a notice that the page has been archived. Links to it stay. | The page, which they can open, edit and restore. |
A new page always starts as a draft.