HowToUseWiki

The basics:

• Read pages. Follow links from page to page. Click on a page's title to see other pages that mention it.

• To edit a page, follow the Edit Text link. Words smashed together to form a WikiName will AutoMagically become links. See the TextFormattingRules for more details, and experiment with editing in the WikiWikiSandbox.

• Add a page by clicking on the "?" after a NewWikiName (please leave this one as illustration). Before you do this, read the guidelines below!

• Go to CategoryHomePage and create a WikiName for yourself.

• You can mark your work as a "minor edit." Use this when no one will want to reread the page just because of the changes. See MinorEdit for more specific guidelines.

• FunWiki has an RSS feed: http://www3.hmc.edu/~jkentdobias/funwiki/index.cgi?action=rss&showedit=1&all=1&days=5

Guidelines for adding pages:

• Please, don't make new pages without a good reason. Make a new page when you really have something to say. Remember, NearlyEmptyPages become obstacles to browsing.

• If you think a WikiName should exist but you aren't ready to write a page about it, just leave the name in place with a ?. You can come back to it later. Often someone will have done the work for you.
  • This does not mean that you should replace every instance of said word with a WikiNamed version. If you have the time to do that, you have the time to write a page about it.

• Once a WikiName has been created, it can never be destroyed completely. Think before you create. As they say on the original wiki, Content comes and goes, but UgLy is forever.
  • This actually isn't quite true--it is possible to delete Wiki pages now. Only the wiki administrator can do so, however. Let him/her know if a page needs to be deleted. Still follow the rule of "Think before you create", though.

• Don't make your WikiName plural. It is often possible to pluralize WikiNames by adding letters. It is rarely possible to singularize a WikiNames in the same manner.

Tips for editing pages:

• See MakeItEvenBetter.