What is a Wiki?
A Wiki site is a collection of Wiki pages. The main aim of a Wiki site is to make it easy for anyone to contribute and share information.
Logging in for the first time
When you first use this Wiki, you should set up your account. You can do this as follows:
Click on the Login button at the top right of the screen.
- Go to the User Preferences page from there
On the new screen, complete the text boxes labelled Name, Password, Password, Email
In the Name textbox, give the name we have sent you
Then click on Create Profile.
- A new user profile will be created for you and you will be logged in immediately.
The UserPreferences screen will be displayed. Click on the button labelled FrontPage.
Logging in the next time
You are now a known user, you can log in as follows:
Click on the Login button at the top right of the screen.
On the new screen, just complete the text boxes labelled Name and Password.
In the Name textbox, you will need to type the username we sent you
Click on the Login button.
The UserPreferences screen will be displayed. Click on the button labelled FrontPage.
Logging out
You can log out as follows:
Click on the UserPreferences button at the top right of the screen.
On the new screen, scroll down until you see the Logout button.
Click on the Logout button.
Now to the exciting stuff: creating/editing Wiki pages
It is easy to create a new Wiki page or edit an existing one:
- You can create a new page in the Wiki as follows:
go to a URL like: http://wiki.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg-public/YourName
where YourName is replaced by something like TonyBlair
click on Create new empty page
replace the text Describe TonyBlair here. by some text of your choice.
at the end of your text include the text @SIG@ and this will add your name and the time to the text
scroll down and click on Save Changes
And that's it: the Wiki now has a new page that anyone can read by going to a URL like http://wiki.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg-public/YourName
You can edit any Wiki page by clicking the Edit button at the top or the bottom of the page.
End your changes with the text @SIG@ and this will add your name, the date and time to the text.
Within a Wiki page, you can create a link to another Wiki page by using joined capitalized words like PitfallsWithOpenOffice or with ["pitfalls with OpenOffice"].
You can find out more about how to format what you type by going to HelpOnEditing or SyntaxReference.
Instead of creating your own page, you could visit the WikiSandBox; this is a page where you can do experiments.
Some info about the buttons at the top of the page
You can get back to the frontpage using the FrontPage button at the top of the screen.
You can see where people are currently working by using the RecentChanges button.
You can search or browse the collection of Wiki pages in various ways using the FindPage button.
You can access all of the help pages using the HelpContents button.
You can edit a page by clicking the Edit button.
Note Immutable Page will appear instead of the Edit button if you are not allowed to edit the page.
You can see what changes have recently been made to a page by using the Show Changes button.
You can see the revision history for a page by using the Get Info button.
Pointers to some information about Wikis
This wiki uses some software called MoinMoin. To learn more about what a WikiWikiWeb is, read about WhyWikiWorks and the WikiNature. Also, consult the WikiWikiWebFaq.