How to Use Wiki

"Wiki wiki" means "quick" in Hawaiian. A Wiki Wiki Web is meant to be fast and easy to edit.

Table of contents Browsing Plug-ins and add-ons Editing Editing is very easy More detail What pages should be like How to write pages How to organise pages How to manage pages How to discuss the content How to find out what needs to be done How to find out what has been done Reference material The underlying technology Maintenance functions SL as a community SL in other languages

Browsing

• Understanding wiki pages
• Finding wiki pages:
  • Search pages
  • Search by Difficulty
  • Find position page
• How to read RecentChanges
  • Watched pages — How to keep track of changes to specific pages

Plug-ins and add-ons

• Senseis Search Plugin For Firefox
• SL-RSS feed

Editing

Note that “edit” is used on this page in a broad sense, to cover all sorts of modifications to pages; many pages (e.g.) use “edit” in the limited sense of “modify the technical content” as opposed to commenting, discussing or asking questions.

All you really need to know is:

To edit any page click on the "Edit page" link at the top of the page. Try it out in the SandBox now! Read its source code and edit it to your heart's content — it will make more sense.

Editing is very easy

• Adding Pages
  • Sometimes you might want to use DeletingPages
• Text Formatting Rules - Introduction
• Wiki Etiquette
• Editing Guidelines
• Large Editing Test Page

More detail

Can’t see the answer to your wiki question in any of the pages below? Ask the Wiki Wizard!

What pages should be like

• SL conventions
• Conventions used in these pages
• SL is not Wikipedia
• Editing hypertext — i.e. how to organise the content of an article
• Wiki Master Edit — how to clean up an article with many contributions

How to write pages

• Text Formatting Rules
• How Diagrams Work — how to make diagrams of positions on the go board
  • On The Fly Diagram — limitations on diagrams when previewing edits
• How to add images
• Special Templates / Table (How to add tables)
• How Templates Work — how to define and use building blocks for uniform text

How to organise pages

• About Page Headers – How to set the difficulty, type and keywords for a page (for use in searches)
• How Paths Work
• How Aliases Work
• see also Text Formatting Rules #references Links

How to manage pages

• How to restore a previous version of a page — e.g. after vandalism or a mistaken edit

How to discuss the content

• How Forums Work
• /Editing Discussions
• /Editing Freedom

How to find out what needs to be done

• Distance from frontpage — find pages that need to be better linked
• Undefined pages — find pages that are wanted (linked) but not yet written
• To be Master Edited — pages that need a Wiki Master Edit

How to find out what has been done

• see under Browsing above, in particular How to read Recent Changes and Maintenance functions below

Reference material

• SL Tips and Tricks
• SL - shortcut keys
• SL copyright
• SL privacy policy

The underlying technology

• GoWiki — the underlying ‘engine’

Maintenance functions

Some maintenance functions, such as deleting revision?s or special searches (ee.g. to find vandalism or when when a page was deleted), are only available to librarians; see Levels of Access for some more details.

SL as a community

• Sending messages to other people: see Editing guidelines #messages To People
• Home Pages

SL in other languages

• Languages