All
Gus is still wrangling with getting the Help pages migrated across from
Mediawiki's main site. I'm trying to lend a hand as time permits - I
worked mainly on an earlier version of the software that did things a
little differently to the way it's done right now. Hopefully this will be
resolved in less than a week. In the meantime, look at the Help link on
the left hand side of http://en.wikipedia.org/ to get some guidance.
One of the VERY IMPORTANT things is to understand how a Wiki is supposed to
work in order to extract maximum benefit out of it.
Wiki contributors write Articles, and then they are added to Categories by
putting appropriate [[Category:category-name-here]] tags at the (normally)
end of the article.
Categories automatically "collect" articles. Apart from a brief bit of
introductory text, there's nothing more to add.
So, if I was writing an article about my local club, Southern Cross Gliding
Club in Camden, NSW, I might add some tags at the bottom of the article to
include it in Australian Gliding Clubs and NSW Gliding Clubs categories.
In fact, that's just what I did.
See
http://www.ausgliding.com/wiki/index.php/Southern_Cross_Gliding_Club
and notice the links to two Categories at the bottom of the page.
You might also notice that there's a link to Camden Airport and in my web
browser (Internet Explorer 6) it appears as having red text for the
hyperlink (or some other shade if you're colourblind like my dad !). That
means no article currently exists - articles which do exist appear to have
blue links to me. If you follow the red link you can then edit the
article, thus creating a brand new one. That's one of the neat things with
wikis. People can add links to articles they'd like to see written, but
perhaps don't have the time, or would like to do it later on (or even right
after finishing the current article). This is as simple as putting a word
or phrase inside a pair of double square brackets e.g. [[Camden Airport]]
create the link mentioned in this paragraph.
If you also click on the Recent Changes link on the left hand side of the
page, you will notice that the Southern Cross Gliding Club article, and its
categories, have been recently added/edited by me.
I'll try to keep an eye on new articles that appear on the Wiki and provide
guidance as appropriate, or simply "wikify" them bit by bit.
Cheers
Jason
At 07:09 PM 24/01/2006, you wrote:
Gus Stewart wrote:
Although only in its very infancy and barely configured, I've decided to
go live on the new Australian gliding site www.ausgliding.com
<http://www.ausgliding.com/>.
To get things rolling, I have added a new category (Meteorology) in the
"General" area, adding a link to my article about using the SkewT/LogP
diagram and the NASA site which provides (predictions) at any lat/long in
the world.
I also added DDSC to the gliding clubs section.
In both cases, I used a link to point out at the sites that host the info.
--
Robert Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+61 (0)438 385 533 http://www.hart.wattle.id.au
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