Policy Groups

Policy groups are a special type of group manager group.

• They are organized under an umbrella policy space.
• Each new wiki is created using a support group which controls access to the wiki membership.
• Only IT staff are members of support groups.
• Only members of the policy group may edit the wiki space, which means that users will need to be added.
• A member of the support group needs to find the wiki's specific policy group in the duke-wiki policy space and click on it. The name of the policy group is the first bit of your wiki's address, before wiki.duke.edu
  • Then they will be able to add members to the group.
  • Nobody is automatically a member of a policy group, including the owners of that policy group.
• If the support-group owner of the space wants, they can add a regular ad-hoc group-manager group to the membership of the policy group, and then whoever has rights to that can control the membership of the wiki space.