Create a wiki

Verify the information in a Doc by turning it into a wiki. 

Use wikis to manage knowledge and quickly identify the most up-to-date info in the following ways:

What you'll need

  • Free Forever and Business Plans can create one wiki per Workspace.
    • Saving a wiki as a template counts as creating a wiki.
  • Business Plus Plans can create unlimited wikis.

Create a wiki

You can create a wiki from the Docs Hub, a view, toolbar, Home Sidebar, Spaces Sidebar, location header, using /Slash Commands anywhere that accepts text, and a new or existing Doc.

Learn how to Create a Doc and where in your Workspace Docs are saved.

 

Create a wiki in Docs Hub

When you create your first wiki in Docs Hub, you can use a template or create a wiki from a new blank Doc. In Docs Hub, you can also browse Doc templates and import spaces and pages from Confluence.

To create a wiki from Docs Hub:

  1. Open the Docs Hub.
  2. From the Docs Hub sidebar, click the plus icon.
  3. Click Create wiki.

Screenshot of the option to create a Wiki from the Docs Hub sidebar.

Create a wiki from a template

To create a wiki from a template in Docs Hub:

  1. Open the Docs Hub.
    • In the upper-right corner of the Wiki card, click the plus icon.
    • Or in the upper-right corner of the Hub, click the dropdown on the right of the Create Doc button. Then click Create wiki.
  2. Build your content into the template.

You can also create a Doc using a standard Doc template, and mark it as a wiki at any time.

Create a wiki from an existing Doc

To create a wiki from an existing Doc:

You can convert a Doc into a wiki without losing any info or formatting.

  1. Find the Doc and open it. 
  2. From the open Doc in the upper-right, click the ellipsis ... menu. 
  3. Click the Mark Doc as wiki toggle on.

Screenshot of the option to mark a Doc as a wiki.

Convert a wiki to a Doc

You can find a wiki in the same way you would a Doc. You can convert a wiki into a Doc without losing any info or formatting.

To convert a wiki to a Doc:

  1. Find the wiki and open it.
  2. From the open wiki in the upper-right, click the ellipsis ... menu. 
  3. Click the Mark Doc as wiki toggle off. 

Organization of wikis

Wikis are easy to distinguish from Docs. Wikis have a badge next to their names or in the upper-right of the open wiki.  
Screenshot of the purple badge next to a wiki's name in the Docs Hub Docs table.

Access your wikis in Docs Hub from the Wiki card or Docs table

Wiki privacy and sharing

Wikis created in Docs Hub are private by default on the Business Plan and up. You can share and set permissions on a wiki the same way you would a Doc.

Brain AI will only display a wiki to people if they permissions to access the wiki.