Penn State Wikispaces

Submitted by Ryan Johnson, technology training coordinator


Wikispaces recently upgraded to Confluence 4. A new editor replaces both the wiki markup editor and rich text editor. It makes wiki markup easier to use and makes the rich text editor more stable and consistent, especially when viewed in display or edit mode. Some of the new features of this editor include autocomplete, shortcut keys and superscript and subscript text formatting.

Below are some other questions you may have with the new editor:

Will you be able to paste wiki markup into the new Confluence editor?

There will be multiple ways to insert wiki markup in the new editor. For those of you that have learned wiki markup and like the speed of wiki markup, you will still be able to write wiki markup in the new editor. This wiki markup converts ‘on the fly’, providing a faster editing experience. For those of you that have scripts that produce wiki markup, or often write wiki markup in meetings, the new Confluence 4.0 editor introduces an Insert > Wiki markup dialog that will let you paste wiki markup for a one-way conversion.

Will Confluence 4.0 support the Office Connector, including ‘Edit Page in Word’ functionality?

Most of the features of the Office Connector (the View File macros, Import from Word)  work in Confluence 4.0, but it does not include the ‘Edit in Word’ feature, which is replaced by a simplified new editor user interface. These are just a few of the changes, for more information about the changes to Wikispaces, please see the release notes or view some of the Tutorial videos.