Spaces are a great tool provided by Confluence to organize information in a wiki. They give purpose to the collection of pages and they contain and make it easy to control access to those pages. Searches can be limited to a number of selected spaces and once a space is no longer needed it may be archieved (or even discarded) with all pages inside.

There is often the question of how to organize pages in spaces. The number of pages stays the same regardless the number of spaces they are distributed over. Too many spaces make it difficult to locate the information, but too few spaces have the same effect.

With the PDAC1 we developed names for the purpose of spaces. This makes it easier to categorize spaces, organize them, and hopefully hit the right number of spaces for an organization or a given project.