Anyone signed in can ask for a wiki. The site admin looks at every request; once it's approved, whoever asked becomes the wiki's owner.
Settings#
Owners and admins change these under Settings:
- Identity: the wiki's name, a one-line tagline, and a logo (also its favicon).
- Theme: a brand colour and a neutral, or an advanced theme with your own colours for light and dark mode (or only one of them), named colours for components, and a background image, plus the page width: standard, wide (more room for tables and galleries on big screens), or full width. Buttons use a deeper shade of the brand colour where they need one, so the text on them stays easy to read.
- Sidebar: groups of links to pages, dragged into order.
- Home page: an article shown as the home page; without one, the home page lists every article by tag.
- Editing: who can edit and how (see Editing and moderation).
- Discovery and rating: whether the wiki is listed in the directory and open to search engines, and whether it's rated general or mature.
A good first week#
- Set the theme and logo, so the wiki looks like itself from day one.
- Write the main page and the few pages everything else links to.
- Make an infobox and a navbox for the wiki's main kinds of page (Writing components), and put facts used on many pages in Wiki Data.
- Upload the images you'll need in one go (Files → Upload several).
- Give your regular editors the trusted role, so they can review new editors and write components.
- Keep an eye on To-dos for broken links and missing pictures.
Leaving#
Communities own their work. A wiki's text is CC BY-SA 4.0 and can be exported whole, so a community can always take it elsewhere.