Wiki HowTo

Never used a wiki before? Please complete the following tutorials. But first, a little background.

What is a wiki?

• A wiki is a web site where everone can add new pages or edit the content of existing pages.
• Wiki pages have two states, a 'viewing' state where users can simply look at a page (that's what you are doing right now!) and an 'editing' state where users can change the contents of the page.
• Wiki pages are practically indestructible! You can make all the changes you want, but you can always go back to previous versions of a page.

Some conventions

Our wiki is accessible to the whole world (at least for viewing, not for editing). To protect everyone's privacy, I prefer that you do not use your full name anywhere on the wiki.

Video Tutorials

Please watch the following videos. They are 6-8 minutes each. You may want to keep a separate window open where you can practice what you are learning.

Editing Pages



Inserting Links and Images



Creating New Pages and Using the History Page

The wiki engine we are using

TikiWiki is an open source wiki based on PHP and MySQL. From the project website:

"TikiWiki CMS/Groupware is a full-featured, tightly integrated, open source, multilingual, all-in-one Wiki+CMS+Groupware, written in PHP and actively developed by a very large international community. Major features include articles, forums, newsletters, blogs, a file/image gallery, a wiki, bug & issue tracker (form generator), a calendar, RSS feeds, a category system, tags, an advanced user, group and permission system and more."

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