Microsoft Azure DevOps – Create a Wiki for your project

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Background: We have started discussing Azure DevOps. In last 11 articles of Azure DevOps ( 🙂 yes, we have 11+ articles and many more to come 🙂 ) we discussed

• Introductory part of Azure DevOps – Introduction of Azure DevOps
• Organizations in Azure DevOps – What are Azure DevOps Organizations, how to create Organizations, permissions etc.
• Microsoft Azure DevOps – Deleting and Recovering Organization
• Microsoft Azure DevOps – Projects – What are Azure DevOps Projects, how to create Projects, permissions etc.
• Microsoft Azure DevOps – Types of Projects – Public project, Private project
• Microsoft Azure DevOps – Project settings
• Microsoft Azure DevOps – Deleting and Recovering Projects
• Azure DevOps – REST APIs – Part 1 – for Projects
• Azure DevOps – REST APIs – Part 2 – Creating Personal Access Tokens (PATs)
• Microsoft Azure DevOps – REST APIs – Part 3 – Personal Access Tokens (PATs) – “Revoke”, “Edit” and “Regenerate” operations
• Microsoft Azure DevOps – Boards

In this article we will move ahead and will discuss how to create Wiki for our Azure DevOps project.

Take away from this article: At the end of this article we will got to know about

1. What is Wiki in Azure DevOps
2. How to create Wiki for our project. What kind of information is shared in Wiki. 
3. What exactly happens in Azure DevOps when Wiki is created

Prerequisites : 

1. We must have team project. 
2. We need permission for “Create Repository” to publish our code as Wiki. Default permission is set for members of “Project Administrators” group
3. To Add / Edit wiki pages, user need to be member of “Contributors” security group

What is Wiki in Azure DevOps :

1. Wiki in Azure DevOps is used to share details, information within the team.
2. Wiki is the collaboration tool for the team
3. Wiki is available at project level in Azure DevOps

Creating a Wiki for our project : 

• Here, we will create a Wiki for our “Knowledge Junction Intranet” project 
• To go to Wiki, log in to the Azure DevOps – https://dev.azure.com/ as

• Click on any project as shown in below Fig – here we are using “Knowledge Junction Intranet” project

• To create new Wiki for the project, please click on “Wiki” option from left side panel, we will be redirected to “Wiki” section (Wiki landing page) as shown in below Fig

• As shown in above Fig, please click on “Create project wiki” blue color button. We will redirected to new empty Wiki page as shown in below Fig

• Please note the name of the Wiki – <ProjectName>.wiki, here we have Knowledge-Junction-Intranet.wiki. Spaces are replaced by the character “-“
• Following is the Wiki created for our project Knowledge Junction Intranet as 

Next Article : In next article we will discuss more features of Azure DevOps Wiki

We have very good series going on Azure DevOps. Please have a look once – https://knowledge-junction.in/?s=Azure+DevOps

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