With our latest release, we have introduced the concept of wiki types, and our first new wiki type is the Editable Website.
All of the Wikispaces you know and love are what we are now calling Basic Wikis. They emphasize collaboration and discussion around the content you and your users work on together.
But sometimes you just want to put a website up for others to view. You want the easy editing of Wikispaces but you don’t want people visiting your wiki to see all of the editing and discussion functions. For those times, our new Editable Website type is perfect. When you create an Editable Website wiki, we hide the editing and management tools – like Edit and Manage Wiki – from your members and visitors. Organizers are still able to edit the wiki like normal, but others will only see a website.
Getting started
When you create a new wiki you’ll be given the option to choose a wiki type. If you already have a wiki and you want to change its type, head to Manage Wiki and then Wiki Info. When you create a wiki in editable website mode, your wiki permissions will be set to protected, and comments and discussions will be disabled.
As an organizer you’ll see a rectangular icon in your black global navigation bar at the top of the screen. Click on it to reveal your edit button, page options, and action menu in the sidebar. Click it again to hide these options.
Try it out
Here are some ideas for how to use our new Editable Website wiki type:
- Create your own website. If you’re looking to share resources, videos, and links with your students or other visitors, it’s now easier than ever.
- Collaborate then publish. Start a collaborative writing project that you build with your students as a Basic Wiki. Then, when it’s ready, switch over to an Editable Website and share it with parents.
- Create public-facing content on top of your private workspaces. Our Private Label service lets you create as many wikis as you’d like to on your own site. By choosing between our new wiki types, you can decide how people interact with the content you build. Use Editable Website wikis to share news and information with your parents, community, or customers. Or set up Basic Wikis to encourage collaboration in your classrooms or departments. More options, more flexibility.
How are you using our new Editable Website wikis? Let us know in the comments below.
And be sure to keep an eye on the blog to learn about upcoming wiki types and features.
25 Comments
I wish ask one question: if i my wiki is editable, how can i convert to basic?
Thanks.
Can you turn on discussions in the website mode?
I like the editable webpage idea, but in practise it’s frustrating because the title of the page doesn’t show (at least in the notebook theme that I use)
I’m using the wikispace to create an online catalogue of the poems I’ve written over the years, so I don’t want others to be able to edit the content, but they need to be able to see the poem titles.
I also would like discussions possible in website mode.
P.s. I keep reading ‘editable’ as ‘edible’ and getting hungry.
How can I have tabbed pages on my wiki? Currently I have a wiki for each class that I teach, I would like one wiki that has tabs for each class.
How do you post, comment, or make discussions on wikispaces?
I wan’t to learn how to start using and creating my wiki. What are the procedures and term and conditions?
I love this change. As a teacher with first graders I don’t see them interacting with very many wiki’s at this stage of their learning. As for parent’s, it is just confusing to them because they want to know what is supposed to be interactive. It has been a slow process for me to get started in flipping my class. I am still not there and have a ways to go, but I am making progress. I can see the huge benefits of students using time at home to explore specific concepts that I will be teaching in the near future. I am able to apply district links to resources students can have access to at home, but I can be very specific as to what they need to access and when. I can see that next year will be even easier. I hesitate to make personal classroom instructional videos due to the space that will be taken up to store them. Again, I love this new format and I am very excited to share it with my peers, if all they want to do is create their own web-site to provide information for parents.
Thank you,
Kitty Taylor, 1st grade teacher, the most important grade in which to gain basic reading skills. Technology will help me to push their growth to attaining CCSS goals.
Hola, la verdad estoy muy preocupada, es la primera vez que participo de estas paginas y no logro realizar la edicion que solicitaron, ojala pudieran ayudarme de alguna manera, les estaria muy agradecidos, saludos.
Marisabel
If I already have a wiki that is already set to Basic. Will anything be lost if I change this to Editable website?
gret info about the editable type wiki, I found tis ver helpful.
Is the only difference the change in permissions? I’d like better editing tools and would be interested to know if these have changed as well.
Ramnic: In the right-side tool area, click “Manage Wiki”, then under Settings, click “Wiki Info.” Scroll down to the “Wiki Type” area and change the selection. HTH.
-Togusa
Great idea. Can one convert an existing wiki from Basic to Editable?
WOW! Editable Wiki’s … how marvelous! Excuse the pun … but I can just “eat them up”. What a wonderful, efficient concept … it seems! I’m ready to explore this … super.
Thanks much,
Ted
is there any way i could convert my wiki into some form of web language such a javascript or html?
hey i just created a wiki still new i kinda still have no idea wat im doin but i will soon figure it out. if any would like to help i would be thankful!!! thanks :)
More information and a few examples would be helpful in deciding whether to give it a trial
Rod
Hi Rod! Feel free to email us at help@wikispaces.com and we’d be happy to share a few more ideas with you.
Glad you’re trying Wikispaces! Please visit http://help.wikispaces.com/ for tutorials and more.
Great to hear!
Absolutely! Manage Wiki-> Settings->Wiki Info->Wiki Type-> Change to Editable.
It’s okay but I might need help from time to time. I was having problems logging in and finding this page
Thank you, Wendy.
I found the basic version very useful for my own stuff… with the new name ‘editable Website’ I was hoping to be able to use the theme area at the top!
Nevertheless, I’ll play around with it for my club’s site and see how it goes.
Rod
I like this blog alot! It gives me detailed outlines of how I can edit my wiki but I have a concern with exactly what the first picture is about? I need more details or an explanation
Hi! I´m trying to use thi wiki, because I´m from Finland and i have to do somethig to pass the course. Took 3 hours from me to be able to write :) heh heh. well…learning by doing.
taria