Many of you should have received a message reporting that an EVOKE wiki is available here:
evoke.mapofemergence.com/wikiFirst 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
Some of you wrote me, saying they would be actively involved but they never contributed to a wiki before and don't know how to do it. That is why I chose to write this post.
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 EntriesIf 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 entriesBe 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 pagesLinksNormally,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
FormattingFormatting 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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