Create Enterprise wiki from Central Administration

1. Open the SharePoint Central Administrator (CA)
2. In the left navigation (Quick Launch), click Application Management
3. Under Site Collection group, click Create Site Collection
4. Select the web application, for the Wiki site from the dropdown menu
5. Type “My Wiki Site” in the title and fill the description (Optional)
6. For the web site address, type a proper character (ex: MWS)
7. In the template selection area, select the proper language if you installed more than one language then select the Publishing Tab and “Enterprise Wiki”
8. Specify the Primary and Secondary Administrator
9. And finally select the right quota or leave it “No Quota” then click OK

How to Use Enterprise wiki

From the wiki page you can connect to other resources such as pages, lists, views and items without leaving the page which give you the ability to write the discussion faster and without linking error.

Connect to other Page

1. Click the “Edit This page” link to move to the edit mode
2. In the content editor, type “[[” to open the menu
3. The menu will include the all pages available in the site as well List: and View: records
4. Select the page then type “]]”

Connect to List

1. Repeat the above steps 1 and 2
2. Select the List: then press Tab which will open the all available list
3. Select one then type “]]”

Connect to View

1. Repeat the above steps 1 and 2
2. Select the View: then press Tab which will open the all available list
3. Select the List you want then the view menu will open immediately
4. Select one of the available views then type “]]”

Link to List Item

In Wiki page you can immediately connect or link to item directly:

1. Type [[
2. Select “List:” then press Tab
3. Select the list or library then press Tab again
4. The menu will now show the all available items
5. Select the item then press ]]

Change the Link Name

To change the displayed text for the link, before typing the “]]” just type “|” and the text you want to show then type “]]”.