Quickstart

From espians

To get started:

Register as a user by clicking "register" up top
Edit your new user page and put "{{profile}}" in the source.
Edit the appropriate sections by clicking on the "+/-" things.
Check out recent changes and dive in!

1 Register
2 Edit Userpage
3 Edit Sections
4 Dive In
5 References

Register

Look at the top of the window, on the right, and you will see the option to "log on". If you click on that, you get the option to "create an account". Fill in the correct fields, and you are registered.

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Edit Userpage

Look at the top of the window, and you will see that the options are different. Click on your username and this will take you to a blank page. Click on the edit tab, and you will get a blank editing page. Whatever you write in this large box will change the wiki. In this case, write "{{profile}}" in the editing box; make sure you write profile and surround it with two sets of curly brackets. Look below the editing section and you will see a few options. Click on "Save page". You will see that your Userpage now looks quite different, since it is including all the information from the template "profile".

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Edit Sections

All you have to do now, is click on the red sections. Start with your name, and make sure you write your first and second name since this makes it clear for all participants on the wiki. Save the page, and return to your Userpage. Go ahead and fill in all the different sections. If you want to change any of your entries, you click on the "+/-" sections, and then edit that page.

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Dive In

This is a person-based wiki, and as such departs from the standard use of wikis, which are mainly concerned with knowledge crystalisation. There are a number of different ways of using the person-based wiki well. For example, by clicking on the titles of each section, you will be able to view everyone else's entries; eg by clicking on the title "Today's Intentions and Achievements", you will go to "Today" and see everyone's intentions and achievements. In this way, you can keep abreast of what other people are doing. You will notice that people often have links on their lists, which enables you to see in more detail what they are doing, for example what meetings they are going to. All you have to do to learn anything about the wiki, is see a page which is doing something you would like to do, such as make links like this one, is click the edit tab, and then you can see the code that is required to create the link, in this case the use of double square brackets and a bar in the middle to separate the name of the page from the lable specific on this page. You will see... try it out. If you have any problems, please feel free to leave a message on my talk page: simply click the edit page and leave a message :)

Check out the person-based wiki conventions for hints and tricks on how best to use this wiki :)

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