WikiEditIntro

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A WikiWiki, commonly abbreviated to Wiki, is a collaborative document creation tool. This Wiki is intended to facilitate the development of the INAP GARD Guide.

The Wiki pages are ordinary Web pages, but the pages are produced from textual data in a database. This allows us to keep track of edits, and even allows rolling back to a previous version, if necessary.

Paragraphs of text are added as plain text, then formatting is added, if needed. You can always look at existing pages to see how formatting works, or follow links on the Help page to topics of interest.

Help is provided for every stage of creating the guide.

  1. The Wiki already contains the approved Table of Contents for the Guide as a set of pages ready for content.
  2. Help with common formatting and data entry problems is available from the Editing Help page.
  3. Email help is available from Conrad Muller at Golder Associates, Redmond, WA US cmuller@golder.com.
  4. Classes (by teleconference) are available. Contact Rens Verburg at Golder Associates, Redmond, WA US RVerburg@golder.com.

The Wiki software converts your text and markup (formatting) into a Web page.

  1. First you must create an account so that you can edit.
  2. This Wiki uses special markup that is meant to be easy for non-programmers, and most of the "tags" used for formatting are on the Editing Tool Bar.
    1. On this Wiki we will use the simplified markup wherever possible.
    2. Formatting works like MS Word. Select the text to be formatted, then click the appropriate toolbar button.
    3. Be sure to try out the Editing Tool Bar at the top of each edit page.
    4. Take a look at basic text formatting techniques.
  3. Experiment in the The Sand Box. This is a safe place to create new pages and try your editing and formatting.

Back to: Editing Help.