This wiki is a place to post anything that will help achieve the goal of "the left hand knowing what the right hand is doing" in the MU Libraries. Anyone with the password can post information here. Anyone can delete information. Anyone can change information...including the information on this page. Everyone is trusted to do this. There is no "grand gatekeeper" of this wiki. It belongs to all of us.

 

The following is a set of suggested conventions we can choose follow in order to keep communication efficient and helpful. Think of them as "things your colleagues will appreciate." Following these suggestions is a short introduction to the mechanics of this wiki software and a link to more.

 

• When you log in to edit the wiki, include your name. Sometimes it is also helpful to include your name in the text of your posts. If you make anonymous changes to the wiki, you can expect that others will feel free to undo them. If you post someone else's text (e.g. from an email), consider asking their permission, and consider including a note to the effect that the information is "copied from an email," etc.

 

• When posting about events and projects, consider including any relevant info on: WHO (people involved, leader(s), contact person(s), sponsoring organizations), WHAT (title of item plus short annotation; any resources being sought), WHEN (please include DAY, DATE, TIME, whichever is relevant), WHERE (venue for events, location of further information including links and/or file locations), WHY (goals, purposes, whose idea was it)

 

• Keep the wiki current. This means:

1. Remove events for which the dates have passed.
2. As projects progress from "proposed" to "in progress," move them to the appropriate section of the "projects" page.

 

• Respect others' postings and treat your colleagues with respect, even if they annoy you. However, if someone makes anonymous changes to the wiki, the expectation of respect is diminished and the likelihood that such changes will be undone increases.

 

• Log out when you are finished editing, or when you're interrupted. When making long posts/edits, save frequently. This helps prevent inadvertently losing information if someone steals your edit lock.

 

Now, a few basics on mechanics:

 

To edit any part of this wiki, go to that part of the wiki and click the "Edit Page" button. If you have not yet logged in with the wiki password you will be asked to do so at this point. You know when you are in edit mode when you get a white editing box instead of all the "pretty" web type. There will be some familiar-looking buttons at the top.

 

Why are all the links from the main wiki page to the sections words pushed together without spaces? Because on pbwiki, that is how you create new, offshoot pages. Type a word like that, and you'll get a dotted underline link. Get out of edit mode, click that new link, and you'll get taken to a blank editing screen. Put content on that screen, and you have just created a new part of the wiki.

 

To write a word like PowerPoint without it becoming a new link, enclose it between the tags that say <raw>. The second (closing) tag should have a slash before the word "raw."

 

Bold: put your text between sets of double-asterixes. Or just use the MS-Word style button at the top of the page.

 

White box: put your text between vertical lines. The vertical line is located above your backslash key (\).

 

Insert a table of contents on a page: type "toc" between angle brackets (shift-comma and shift-period)

 

Headings: start the line with one or more exclamation points (single one for HUGE heading, 2 exclamation points for big heading, 3 exclamation points for medium-sized headings. etc.)

 

This is just a start, but it should get you pretty far. For further formatting tips, please see http://yummy.pbwiki.com/WikiStyle . -RLB

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