Each HDA contains a personal/home wiki instance for your use. It is accessible as <pre><nowiki>http://wiki/</nowiki></pre>in your browser.

in your browser. For even more simplicity, you can simply type '''[http://wiki/ wiki]''' in the browser.

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 linking linking 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 to to the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that facilitates the operation of such a site, or to certain specific wiki sites, including the computer science site site (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 WikipediaWikipedia].

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 interfaceinterface) 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.

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 some some 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 first first person editing the page will have a few hours to edit the page, at which point, that edition of the page will time out.

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 modeled modeled after.