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==Welcome to The Anime Central Wiki==

This is our proposed site for a variety of planning and consensus building activities at Acen. Here are the projects we have started:

* [[Stevens Center photos]] - Use these to plan what goes where.  Help us by adding notes about what each photo is and what would go well there.

* [[The anti-schedule]] - Post what you've got done, and what you need others to do for you.

* [[Stories and Scripts]] for the opening animation, the web comic, and other activities involving our mascots.

* [[Your user page]]  When you register a screen name, you automatically get a page about you.  Put your photo here, tell us what you do at the con, and anything else you want to share.  If you want to talk directly to someone outside of a specific article, post on the discussion page attached to their member page.

===What is a wiki?===

A Wiki is a web page where any staff member can create pages and edit anything, including this sentence you are reading now!  But don't worry, if someone makes a mistake, it is easy to revert to any previous version of any page.  The most famous wiki is '''Wikipedia''', [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page|Wikipedia] which uses wikis to build an encyclopedia.  Check them out for tutorials on how this works.  The only difference between us and them is that while their pages are designed to be encyclopedia entries, ours will look like schedules, plans, and the various other documents that a convention needs.

One important thing you'll notice at wikipedia is that every page has an "article" and "discussion" version.  Our articles should look like finished plans. (Even though they will likely change a lot.) Our discussions are more like forums, where people can talk with each other about how the article is progressing.  If you find you need to revert someone else's change, be sure to post in the discussion page why you felt it was necessary, and what could be done better.  Note that etiquette and civil discussion are very important in a wiki.  It doesn't matter how "right" you are if you offend people into resisting you.  Discussion pages are conversations, so you need to sign your comments by typing <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>.  When I type that, the page replaces it with ''[[User:Allan G Reilly|Allan G Reilly]] 03:31, 26 November 2006 (EST)''  This produces your name, date, and a link to your user page.  You don't usually sign article pages.  (But in the anti-schedule you do.)

===About this wiki - Create an account quickly===

For the moment, only people who have read the e-mail I just sent out to the staff list know about this page, so it is currently set up to allow anyone to make an account and read the content.  However this will change in a day or two, so make your accounts now - later you'll have to wait for me to manually add you, which might take time.  This page is being hosted on a free service, and is currently run separately from our web site and forums, however this too may change, as our web staff get ready to do their own hosting.

===What shouldn't go here===
This site will be set to admit only pre-registered staff, so in theory, it ought to be secure.  In practice however, anything on the web can end up on someone's headline, so be careful.  I invite those who know better then I to add examples to this paragraph about what is safe to discuss here and what isn't.