Help On Contributing New Wiki Page

Explains steps for creating, maintaining, and sharing a wiki page.

Goals of Wiki Content

• Owned

  • To be owned by an individual who is responsible for making sure the page is up-to-date and relevant. To own a page, just make sure that its path is underneath your HOMEPAGE.

• Findable

  • To be findable by the appropriate audience(s) without having to resort to a Search.

• Modifiable

  • To be modifiable so that it can "live", "evolve", "transfer to another owner", or "die" as necessary to best reflect its useful purpose.

Steps

1. Determine page location
   • Pick a location underneath your HOMEPAGE (you will then own it)
   • Don't worry that it may need to live (or be owned) by somebody else in the future
   • Organize your pages to fit your own work processes and habits
2. Create the page
   • Manually using the browser

Optional Steps

• Categorize the page

  • Make it easy for others to find without resorting to Search
    MoinMoin categories are similar to Tags

  • Determine one or more appropriate categories.
    • Choose from existing categories
    • Or create your own
  • Append category name to your page
    • Syntax:

      • Category<DescriptorHere>

    • Type the category name at the bottom of the page

      • = My Page Title =
        All my content here.
        .
        .
        .
        ----
         . CategoryFoobar

    • Make sure that it is not already there which may be the case if you copied or created the page from a template.

    • You can use more than one category

• Make a unique and permanent link for the page

  • Maybe you want to publish the link in a blog or other system?

  • Decide upon a unique name (for a new page)
    • Plan on this name being relevant for a long time
    • Try to make the name self explanatory

  • Create new page underneath Permalinks with the following contents:

    • <<Include(<FirstLast/PathToOriginalPage/PageName)>>