Refers to build 14.0.4006.1010 (BETA 1)Wiki functionality in SharePoint 2007 was kind of spartan. In this post I’ll have a look what will come with SharePoint 2010.
The Wiki Homepage Feature
When you create a blank site in SharePoint 2010 the homepage (default.aspx) will be a web part page as usual. But now there’s a new feature called “Wiki Page Home Page”.
When you activate the feature it creates a document library called “SitePages”, adds a wiki page named “default.aspx” and set it as the new homepage for the site.
The feature transforms your whole site to a wiki. Every time you create a new page it will create a new wiki page and store it in the “SitePages” lib (similar to the publishing features in 2007).
For sure you can tag Wiki pages as any other page as described in my previous post Managing Metadata in SharePoint 2010.
Content
While in SharePoint you could only write some rich text, you now could upload files (will be stored as a separate file) and add Web Parts.No joke, you can now add Web Parts at any place within the wiki rich text!
[[Wiki Linking]]
In SharePoint 2010 you will get an intellisense like linking experience. That’s kind of cool :-) Just an enter [[ and press ctrl+space
You can now link easily pages, lists, items, documents and views.
Enterprise Wiki Layouts
Additionally there’s a new Site Collection feature called “Enterprise Wiki Layouts” for creating a large-scale wiki with categories and page layouts.
Seems to be correlated with the publishing infrastructure, because the feature add a new page layout content type. This means you can create wiki page layouts with SharePoint Designer 2010.
Click and see the beautiful new SharePoint 2010 error message. 
Never mind this a technical preview and lot of things already work great. Can’t await to continue with the beta in November…
8 comments:
Hi, thanks for your post.
I cannot see "Enterprise Wiki Layouts" feature in my features page (I have SharePoint server 2010 Entreprise). Does it still exist ?Thanks!
Does it have support por standard wiki syntax, like headers and so on??
Hi
I agree with EB. I am farm / domain admin and I don't even see Enterprise Wiki Layouts.
Indeed when I go to the page Layouts ribbon button when editing a Wiki page it's disabled!
This is all a bit mysterious....
Unfortunately no standard wiki syntax.
@westerdaled: As far as I remember the enterprise wiki is root site template (create a site collection).
Bye, Christian
I created a Wiki template which includes web parts that I want on all of my Wiki pages but when I select the page layout to my custom template I can add any text or anything to the page through SharePoint. I'm not sure but I think that I have forgotten something in the code. Can anyone help me with this?
I can. Write me an email cg @ expertsinside . com
Christian,
Have you used any other wikis? For example Confluence from Atlassian? What is sharepoint 2010 wiki functionality in area of capturing differences in revision so one can clearly see what they are, roll them back easily, and subscribe/publish to others in a clear format what is being changed? Things that provide a 'safety net' to free up everyone to go in and change whatever they think needs changing without asking for permission ... creating a shared ownership of documents? This is crutial for the group dynamics of assembling/organizing the best knowledge of the workers by the 'content creators' in a company. Lack of this functionality is a deal breaker if anyone wishes to make a microsoft wiki viable.
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