Site Help
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 | Site Help will be your guide to the commonenergy.org site - whether you are new to wiki and want to learn how to build a page or you are an experienced editor looking to contribute to our projects. A Wiki is designed to make it easy for visitors to read, edit, and build the site themselves. It provides an effective structure for mass on-line collaboration. For example, the english-language version of Wikipedia has more than 1.6 million articles, entirely written and edited by volunteers. Wiki upkeep and design is the responsibility of the wiki team.
This page links to Common Energy's Style Guides and resources created for Wiki Training. If you want to read, edit, and build commonenergy.org the first thing you should do is create an account. |
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[edit] Resources
Common Energy has developed a number of tutorials and style guides to help new (and experienced) users learn how to edit wiki content. For first-timers, check out Wiki-Basics, a step-by-step guide. The two more advanced tutorials, both used in Wiki Training sessions, are How to Use a Wiki, and How to Use the Common Energy Wiki.
[edit] Tutorials
- Wiki-Basics
- An introductory tutorial, outlining how to perform basic edits. Good if you aren't interested in doing more than fixing small errors or adding a few links.
- How to Use a Wiki
- A tutorial explaining most aspects of wiki editing and some helpful hints and good wiki protocol. Includes: text formatting, links, citation, tables, images, templates, categories, helpful features, etc.
- How to Use the Common Energy Wiki
- A tutorial outlining the design and use of the Common Energy wiki. Includes: network concept, site guidelines, style guides.
[edit] Style Guides
We are developing Style Guides to make the wiki more consistent, easier to read, and easier to use. Before editing too many pages on the site, it would be a good idea to go over some of them.
[edit] What's going on? What can I do?
To indicate where the action on the wiki is taking place, Recent Changes shows you what's been updated and is the best place to find out if people are asking questions or putting forward ideas in discussion pages. If you would like regular updates of changes to commonenergy.org, then signing up for the RSS feed of the recent changes is the perfect thing for you. This will mean that you are never more than the click of a button away from the latest developments.
If you want to get seriously involved with design of the website, check out the Wiki Development page, or email wiki(at)uvic.commonenergy.org.
[edit] External Resources
How to edit a page, from Wikipedia
A list of HTML character codes
A list of some common HTML tags
Image syntax explained by Wikipedia
Table help from Wikipedia
How to use the citation tool
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