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Learn about what makes Google a great place to host your next wiki project.
A Google Sites Wiki is an encyclopedic web property meant to serve as a community knowledge base. Due to the contributor settings of Google Sites, several wiki admins can band together to create a free wiki.
Build a new wiki or migrate an existing wiki using Google Sites. It's a free and stable platform for wiki hosting. Collaborate with contributors to create small or big wikis together. Successfully fork away from other wiki sites. Create a home for games, hobbies, communities and other groups to share an online encyclopedia's worth of knowledge.
A Google Sites wiki can be used for:
fan communities
games and gaming guides
private team sites
local communities and committees
private wiki sites
policies, procedures and standard operating procedures
volunteering organizations and non-profits
A Google Sites Wiki is an encyclopedic web property meant to serve as a community knowledge base. Due to the contributor settings of Google Sites, several wiki admins can band together to create a free wiki.
Build a new wiki or migrate an existing wiki using Google Sites. It's a free and stable platform for wiki hosting. Collaborate with contributors to create small or big wikis together. Successfully fork away from other wiki sites. Create a home for games, hobbies, communities and other groups to share an online encyclopedia's worth of knowledge.
This Google Wiki template is meant to be a starting point for clean, unobtrusive and accessible free wiki design. It can be downloaded from the Google Sites template gallery.
Here's a list of some of the features you'll find helpful in building a wiki.
Table of contents is great utilized as a sidebar at the top of your page to display the all the headings sorted below. If you have an extensive wiki page with many categories or subjects, insert this widget to provide users an anchor point.
Formatting options include the titles, headings, subheadings that are recognized by the table of contents feature. Half the battle of a successful wiki is tidy organization. Establish the logical semantic structure of a page for editors and your viewers will thank you.
Collapsible group is a handy component for discretely preparing text content without leaving a large footprint on the page itself. It acts as a clickable accordion for text and images only. You'll frequently see this being used in FAQ sections at the bottom of a page. Showing and hiding the lower container of text is obvious and done with a single click.
Insert a link to bring together pages of information, networking your relevant wiki information. Internal and external links are possible. When creating your wikipedia like site, promote link building as much as possible. Links are blue and underlined by default because this is the most quickly identifiable hyperlink.
No ads whatsoever with this platform
Free to create, free to host, free to publish publicly
No self hosting necessary or hosting through a third part wiki building software
Total control on the look and feel of your wiki with no restrictions other than general terms of use for Google products.Â
No code or coding require.
No special wiki markdown or knowledge because the editor is WYSIWYG.
SEO friendly with ability to set site name, page name, all headings, analytics and search console.
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Google Sites can be used for private wiki applications, just check your sharing settings. A published site can be set to restricted. If you are using Sites in conjunction with Google Workspace, set access for the wiki to domain only.
You can use Google Drive to create your entire wiki. You don't need coding, API or third party apps with a subscription. Here are the key file types you'll use:
Embed whole Google Docs in your wiki
Only worry about updating policies and procedures in one place
Use tabs in Google Docs to organize multiple pages of Google Docs content
Integrate whole Google Drive folders or file pickers in grid or list view
Organize and share your data
Manage sharing settings so your data stays private if need be
Insert tables for better looking directories, project management or other chart types
Add in custom videos and all your video assets from Google Drive hosting
Supports inserting a video player for Drive, YouTube or Vimeo
This is the heart of the wiki and has a full web editor for creating environments to manage your content
Organize navigation, pages, tables of contents, links and more
Integrate AppSheet apps for workflows, automations and apps for viewing your Google Sheets data in the field
You can consolidate all your information, data, images and files all within Google Drive, which everyone has free access to from standard Google or Gmail accounts. It's so accessible and easy to use. No code or markup languages needed.
It's up to your topic, audience and objectives, but here are a few great ideas for Google wikis:
Employee onboarding and staff orientation
Company benefits, policies and procedures
Instructional for processes across decentralized or remote teams
Google Workspace domain resources, links and hubs
Centralized database all in one Google Drive folder with your Google Sites, Docs, Sheets, media, etc.
Business knowledge, strategy plans, committees sites
Knowledge and resources launcher site or team sites
Project management sites managed in Google Drive
No. Google Sites hosting is free. We have custom templates available for one-time purchase if you want to import a theme right away into your wiki site.
It's free and requires no outside permissions, access, subscriptions, hosting or third party app access integration. It's pure base Google, just optimized for wiki management.
Yes. You can customize themes with options for fonts, colors and other style treatments. We have created themes for modern wiki, classic serif wiki, and dark mode wiki.