Adding and Editing Wiki Forums

While the wiki will function using only the forums defined in the Namespace Manager, some Administrators might want to give further structure to their wikis by adding sub-forums.
You can add a forum as you would normally, by going to Forums & Moderators > Add new Forum
Most of the settings can be filled out to your preference, but there are a few exceptions.

Parent Forum

In order to add a subforum to an existing namespace, you must select either the namespace's "Top-Level Forum" (defined in the Namespace Manager) or a subforum of it.

Enable Wiki in This Forum

This controls whether the forum will act as a wiki forum or not. There are 3 options:

• Disabled - won't treat the forum as a wiki forum.
  
• Wiki - will treat the forum as part of a namespace. If the parent forum isn't the default forum of the namespace or a subforum of it, selecting this will give an error message.
  
• Island - will treat the forum as a wiki forum that doesn't belong to any namespace.

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The Island Setting

Island forums can have more than 1 article with the same article title. On the other hand, you cannot link to an article contained in an Island using the namespace link BB-Codes. You can still link to Island articles using the URL tag if you know the direct URL.

Show wiki headers in the forum ?

Display an introductory header at the top of the thread list and the contained threads. This header can contain any information relevant to the forum. It will be saved in and can be edited from the designated Header namespace.

Automatically create links to relevant wiki pages ?

When posting throughout the forum, users may not consider linking to articles relevant to their discussions. The Auto Link system automatically converts phrases in posts that match existing article titles into links to those articles.

While Auto Links make the article creation process easier in this way as well, wiki editors should make every effort to manually create links. This will help VaultWiki to better track links to articles that have not been created, which Auto Links do not consider.

Note: This setting will be ignored unless the corresponding box is also ticked for the global setting "Enable Auto Links to VaultWiki Articles."

Allow group pages in this wiki forum ?

When the forum is already set as "Wiki"-type, Social Groups that are permitted to create Group Pages can post them in this forum.