About Groups

Groups are private wiki areas.  You may create private areas for collaboration with a limited set of people.

Note: While you may create private groups, consider keeping your content fully public!  Then more people can benefit.  See Creating Public Content.

Each group has a name.  The format for the name of a wiki object in a group is

Group:groupname:pagename

For example

Group:Club123:Zebras

If you are not a member of a group, you will not be able to see its content.

Note that the "home page" for a group is not private, for example

Group:Club123

is a public page.

• If you would like people to know what your group is about, so they can request membership, this is a good place to put some information.

A Quick Note on Security

While groups are private, please do not post highly sensitive information in a group.

• A group is only as secure as the weakest password of one of its members, and bugs do happen.
• Further, LittleWiki technical staff may view any content for troubleshooting, testing, and other purposes.
• Ultra high security is not the purpose of this site.

Creating a New Group

Create a New Group Page

Adding Users to a Group

Groups, upon creation, include a link from their homepage to the member administration page.

Alternatively, go directly to /member.jsp to add and remove members from groups.

• Change "groupname" to be the name of your group.

Requesting Membership to a Group

The group administrator is responsible for managing group memberships.

• You may request to become a member of a group here.

Viewing Members of a Group

If you are a member of a group you may view the membership roster by clicking here.

Only members of a group may see the full list of members; however, anyone can see who the administrator of the group is.

Adding Content to your Group

Remember that the root page for you group, for example Group:Club123, is public.  Thus, you may wish to create a page called Home under your group, for example, Group:Club123:Home.

Note that from a page like Group:Club123:Home, if you write a link such as [[Page2]], it will resolve to Group:Club123:Page2, as page Home was in the Group:Club123: namespace.  However, your root page is in the Group: namespace, so you must add your group name in front on the pagename there to link to a page within your group.