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EVOKE WIKI: guidelines and basic instructions
evoke.mapofemergence.com/wiki
First of all, I would make clear a few things:
- the wiki was not conceived by me; it all came out from an exchange of ideas with Wintermute about his SEED project (please take a look at his post), after which we agreed that it would be nice to make the wiki a more readable, ad-free, medium
- it is an open project; please feel free to contribute, but be fair and try to provide only informations which are useful to the network
- in order to have complete control on it, instead of being hosted by some services, I activated it on my personal web space; then, please try to be wise and "efficient" when uploading media (choose only the most meaningful images and upload the others on your personal blog, on EVOKE).
- every entry from the old wiki has been moved to the new one, then I would invite you to use just this one, in order to avoid that contents were splitted between the two
Below I'll give a few instructions to begin working on the wiki; I'm sure that once you did the very first steps, everything will be much clearer and easier, than many of you think.
New Entries
If you want to create a new page, first check that it doesn't exist yet. You can do it by inserting the title of the page in the search box and clicking the “Go” button on the left of the page. If the page does not exists, you'll get a message saying: There is no page titled "ABC" (where ABC is what you typed). You can create this page. Then, just follow the link for "create this page" and you're ready to go.
Note that this technique doesn't work if you use the “Search” button instead of "Go".
Edit existing entries
Be sure you're in the page you want to edit, and click the “Edit” page tab at the top of the page. Make changes to the text. Click the “Save page” button. Simple as that!
Note that everybody can modify anybody else's entry, then be careful: it'd be fair if you only add contents to entries created by other agents; otherwise just correct grammar mistakes or broken/wrong links
for further infos, here's the link to the official wikimedia help: editing pages
Links
Normally,four sorts of links are available in a wiki: what we're interested in, by now, are the first two: internal links (1) to other pages in the wiki, external links (2) to other websites.
(1) write the page name you're linking to (e.g. "ABC DEF") and click the "internal link" icon (
). You'll see brackets appearing around youre words, like this:[[ABC DEF]]if you want to add a custom name to the link, add it within the brackets after the "|" symbol, like this:
[[ABC DEF | custom name to the link]](2) copy and paste the link you want to point to and click the "external link" icon (
). You'll see this:[http://mylink]in this case, for custom text you won't need to insert the "|" symbol, just write it after the link, with a blank space:
[http://mylink custom name to the link]here's the link to the official wikimedia help: links
Formatting
Formatting methods anre a little bit trickier; then I would suggest you to read directly the official wikimedia help: formatting or to write plain and having other to help you with that, until you feel experienced enough to do it by your own.
As a general suggestion, I would say that the better way to learn is to click "edit" on existing pages and see how they appear in the text box. I know you're all smart enough to learn by your-selves.
As I said in the message I sent to notify the wiki: open knowledge will empower all of us, within and beyond EVOKE; let's use it for the best.
I hope you'll enjoy it.
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Comment by PJE on March 22, 2010 at 7:32pm -
Thank you for doing this. Well done, I am off to read it now.
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Comment by Karen L. on March 23, 2010 at 11:30am -
Looks good. Thanks for the wiki instructions. I too am not familiar with wikis.
This is good.
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Comment by Radhika Darbari on March 23, 2010 at 5:02pm -
Hey Stefano just wanted to let you know have read your blog now full on :-) I gave +1 for sustainability because you looking to the future :-). Brilliant. Looking back to hearing from you still on our messages, straining my brain on best way to link most effective...I'll know it will suddenly hit us, but definate kudos before and I apologise not having seen this blog before, only seeing a link somewhere to wiki..Was top plan.
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Comment by MoE on March 27, 2010 at 9:01pm -
Hi everybody, and thank you for leaving feedbacks. Finally I'm taking some time to answer all your kind comments, write new posts, improve the wiki, develop new tools for my missions, write back to friends I got in touch with.
@PJE : I hope you found interesting infos, already, and that you'll be back there from time to time, to search for new ones and to give your contribution. That would be very much appreciated
@Karen : I wasn't familiar with wikis, either :)
That has been my very first test on a wiki installation. I learnt how to set it up, how to write new pages, edit and format them from scratch. But I found everything very easy as the Media Wiki doc**entation is very well written and the wh*** wiki very well programmed. I hope you'll find it as easy as I did.
@Radhika : nothing to apologise for, and thanks for taking time to read this. I'll message you my thoughts, for the best ways I see to link EVOKE Forever with the Wiki (it'll be more agile than commenting here)
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Comment by Wintermute on April 7, 2010 at 12:55pm -
I personally appreciate the info share, thanks S t e
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Comment by Mike Matessa on April 10, 2010 at 4:15am -
Thanks, Stefano. I started an Argument Map Directory under the Finding EVOKE Content section. Let me know if you think I should put it somewhere else.
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