Setting up an enterprise wiki

An enterprise wiki is an efficient way to share knowledge across an organization. The wiki is an organic self-policing site for knowledge. In addition, the users who are consuming the site will categorize objects and the site will contain its own taxonomy.

In reality, it is an online database that promotes collaboration in an organization. SharePoint 2010 contains this functionality out of the box and includes a few bells and whistles such as:

• Tagging

• Comments

• Ratings

• Managed metadata

For some of the additional functionality to work, a managed metadata service should be set up and configured.

In this recipe, we will set up an Enterprise Wiki at the Site Collection level.

Getting ready

You must have farm-level administrative permissions to the Central Administration site.

How to do it...

1. 1. Open the SharePoint 2010 Central Administration website.

2. 2. Click Application Management.

3. 3. Under the Site Collections section, click Create site collections.

4. 4. Ensure that the proper...