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New page: Each HDA contains a personal/home wiki instance for your use. It is accessible as <pre><nowiki> http://wiki/ </nowiki></pre> in your browser. For even more simplicity, you can simply ...
Each HDA contains a personal/home wiki instance for your use. It is accessible as
<pre><nowiki>
http://wiki/
</nowiki></pre>
in your browser.
For even more simplicity, you can simply type '''[http://wiki/ wiki]''' in the browser.
= What is a wiki? =
But ... what exactly is a wiki, you ask?
From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Wikipedia] (an online encyclopedia built with wiki technology that popularized wikis worldwide):
A wiki is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, and otherwise edit and change content, typically without the need for registration. It also allows for link
ing among any number of pages. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring. The term wiki also can refer t
o the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that facilitates the operation of such a site, or to certain specific wiki sites, including the computer science si
te (the original wiki) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/[[Wiki Wiki Web]] [[Wiki Wiki Web]]] and online encyclopedias such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Wikiped
ia].
= Editing the wiki =
Wikis today are still best edited with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki#Pages_and_editing wikitext], though some wiki engines have some GUI (graphical user interfa
ce) editor for editing the pages. In some cases, the GUI editors are usable, however, they may not be able to exploit all the formatting features in wikitext.
Consider the differences in editing this page with the [http://help.yourhda.com/Wiki?action=edit&editor=text Edit (Text)] button
on the right, vs. the [http://help.yourhda.com/Wiki?action=edit&editor=gui Edit (GUI)] button below it. In the text case, the edit page will tell you at the bottom s
ome of the wikitext you can use, such as ''italics''; '''bold'''; '''''bold italics'''''; ''mixed '''bold''' and italics''.
* Shared Documents: if two people attempt to edit a given page at the same time, the second one will be warned that there is someone editing that page already. The f
irst person editing the page will have a few hours to edit the page, at which point, that edition of the page will time out.
* Creating new pages: a new page is created when a user puts a [[Word With Camel Case]] or <code><nowiki>[[Words with brackets and double quotes]] </nowiki></code>.
This will create a new link, which, when clicked, will create a new page. When creating a new page, the user is offered with some templates of pages which can be mo
deled after.
= Templates =
The wiki comes prepared with a few [[templates]] from which you can copy and paste into your own pages. Here are some examples:
* [[Trip Template]]
* [[Recipe Template]]
* [[Sports Schedule Template]]
* [[Blog Diary Template]]
* [[Contacts Template]]
<pre><nowiki>
http://wiki/
</nowiki></pre>
in your browser.
For even more simplicity, you can simply type '''[http://wiki/ wiki]''' in the browser.
= What is a wiki? =
But ... what exactly is a wiki, you ask?
From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Wikipedia] (an online encyclopedia built with wiki technology that popularized wikis worldwide):
A wiki is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, and otherwise edit and change content, typically without the need for registration. It also allows for link
ing among any number of pages. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring. The term wiki also can refer t
o the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that facilitates the operation of such a site, or to certain specific wiki sites, including the computer science si
te (the original wiki) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/[[Wiki Wiki Web]] [[Wiki Wiki Web]]] and online encyclopedias such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Wikiped
ia].
= Editing the wiki =
Wikis today are still best edited with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki#Pages_and_editing wikitext], though some wiki engines have some GUI (graphical user interfa
ce) editor for editing the pages. In some cases, the GUI editors are usable, however, they may not be able to exploit all the formatting features in wikitext.
Consider the differences in editing this page with the [http://help.yourhda.com/Wiki?action=edit&editor=text Edit (Text)] button
on the right, vs. the [http://help.yourhda.com/Wiki?action=edit&editor=gui Edit (GUI)] button below it. In the text case, the edit page will tell you at the bottom s
ome of the wikitext you can use, such as ''italics''; '''bold'''; '''''bold italics'''''; ''mixed '''bold''' and italics''.
* Shared Documents: if two people attempt to edit a given page at the same time, the second one will be warned that there is someone editing that page already. The f
irst person editing the page will have a few hours to edit the page, at which point, that edition of the page will time out.
* Creating new pages: a new page is created when a user puts a [[Word With Camel Case]] or <code><nowiki>[[Words with brackets and double quotes]] </nowiki></code>.
This will create a new link, which, when clicked, will create a new page. When creating a new page, the user is offered with some templates of pages which can be mo
deled after.
= Templates =
The wiki comes prepared with a few [[templates]] from which you can copy and paste into your own pages. Here are some examples:
* [[Trip Template]]
* [[Recipe Template]]
* [[Sports Schedule Template]]
* [[Blog Diary Template]]
* [[Contacts Template]]
