A Welcome & Tutorial
Table of contents
- 1. Contribute content
- 1.1. Collaborate
- 1.2. Create mashups
- 1.3. Share media
- 1.4. Track changes
- 2. Let OpenGarden help you
- Sign in using your full first and last name with caps and a space between, just like you'd write it elsewhere, and the password you received by email.
- Go to any visible page using either the directory/menu structure on the left, or perhaps a link you received in an email or on another website, if either applies.
- Read the page
- Click "Edit Page"
- Change/add things
- Click "Save" without concern, because a goof can be reparied by rolling back the page (Click on the date after "Page last modified" above-right)
- Barring editing the page, consider leaving a comment at the bottom
Here are some more tips on getting started with this wiki:
#1 When you notice something missing here, please assume no one's got to it yet and Add It.
A wiki is a user editable web page. Instead of needing a special piece
of software or a designer who knows what they are doing, anybody can
click edit, change content and formatting, and save.
A great
experiment is to go to your user page
http://aikiext.org/User:First_Last, upload a small photo in the
file area at the bottom, and then edit the page to install the photo
(the button for it is the Insert Image icon - a mountains and sun scape to the
right of the bold underlined capital L), and add a short biographical piece from your resume cover letter or similar so people can know a bit about you.
Don't forget to Save (on the upper left of this text area above "Cancel").
After you've saved you are responsible for adding "tags" by going up to the "More v" option on the menu above and selecting tags. There are standard tags for this site, with which you should become familiar as you go, that will allow your page to be indexed by topic and area. The list is here. All tags for specific page may be seen at the bottom of that page above the Files, Images, and Comments.
Contribute content
You may think you have no text content to upload and therefore no need for a wiki but, little did you know, you do have, all in one place, a user page that needs a photo and a bit of bio info, an excellent place to put small articles and ideas in progress needing responses before they become full blown writing projects, a page for people who have experienced your unique gifts for public reflect on their efficacy and applicability, a place for additional promotional text to draw more people to your work.
Create mashups
This wiki supports boatloads of extensions - these are little features which allow you to embed content from other websites. For example, you can embed Google Maps, Windows Live Maps, AND Yahoo! Maps, all on the same page. You can also dynamically manipulate images using our ImageMagick extension.There's so much you can do, so learn all about available extensions by clicking the "Extensions List" tab (when the editor loads), or by viewing the Extensions page on OpenGarden.
Share media
Attach photos, files, and all sorts of media to any page to share with
your community. Files and images are revisioned, just like pages, so
you'll always be able to retrieve older files. Please add things that you know other will find useful, rather than all the files that could possibly relate to a given topic, until you are ready to contribute additional funding to our storage for this site. :-)
AE needs this wiki so there is a place online where we can work without waiting for a web designer, co-create projects, etc. and create an experience of membership to strengthen the reality (obscured by distance) of being connected.
I don't care for wikis myself, as you can see, I'm just dispassionately relating the facts. :-)
When
you see a personal comment with no attribution (as the above) you may
want to go to "Page last modified" area (on the upper right of this
text window) and investigate the page's history, going back through the
page's edits to see who added what. That is a little cumbersome, so it
is best for everyone to add a user mark after
contributions, especially on pages created by more than one person. The
fastest way to do this is to type your user name as it appears on this
site (usually First Last on this site -- if you are signed-in it will
be above and to the left of the "log out" button), highlight it with
your mouse, and click the L link button on the edit bar.
Options should appear, including User:Your_Name. Click "Update link".
Your name where you typed and then linked it, in my case Brandon, will point to your user page, in my case http://aikiext.org/User:Brandon.
Let OpenGarden help you
Create an account if you like
OpenGarden is for anybody who wants to participate in the growth of this platform (Deki Wiki) - creating a free account gives you access to their community forums, our bug tracker, and to our wiki. Feel free to drop in, ask questions, or contribute.- Tag page
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