Error in creating a SharePoint Wiki site in SharePoint 2010

Problem Description: Error in creating a SharePoint Wiki site in SharePoint 2010

Creating a subsite underneath site collection by using ‘enterprisewiki’ throws an exceptions.

Please refer the following exceptions which is a series of error messages and helpful to understand the cause behind it.

Error Messages:

Error#1: Failed to activate site-scoped features for template 'ENTERWIKI#0' in site ‘http://sharepoint2007/sites/SP2010Projects’.    a41b91e6-385b-42a9-a10f-c69e15de613a

Error#2: Failed to activate web features when provisioning site at url " http://sharepoint2007/sites/SP2010Projects" with site definition "ENTERWIKI#0"

               

Error#3: Failed to apply template "ENTERWIKI#0" to web at URL " http://sharepoint2007/sites/SP2010Projects".  a41b91e6-385b-42a9-a10f-c69e15de613a

Error#4: SPContentTypeBindingElement.ElementActivated(). ContentType '0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF39004C1F8B46085B4D22B1CDC3DE08CFFB9C' not found on web ' http://sharepoint2007/sites/SP2010Projects'.              a41b91e6-385b-42a9-a10f-c69e15de613a

Error#5: specified argument was out of the range of valid values. Parameter name:content type not found(‘0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF39004C1F8B46085B4D22B1CDC3DE08CFFB9C’).

Analysis:

Wiki template is a dependency section of Publishing Infrastructure as per the following articles:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721051.aspx  

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee837434.aspx

Resolution:

Activate publishing infrastructure at the site collection level as well as at the site level.

How to do this:

Activate Publishing Infrastructure @site collection level:   

-Open the site

-site actions

-Site settings

-site collection Administration

-activate “SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure”

Activate Publishing Infrastructure @site level:   

-Open the site

-site actions

-Site settings

-site actions

-manage site features

-activate “SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure”

That’s it; your issue will be resolved.

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I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.

Product Applies To:

SharePoint Server 2010

SharePoint Foundation 2010