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#<font color="red">Important:</font> [[Special:Userlogin|Log in]] as admin and go to [[Special:Preferences|Preferences]] to change your password! | #<font color="red">Important:</font> [[Special:Userlogin|Log in]] as admin and go to [[Special:Preferences|Preferences]] to change your password! | ||
#Write down your password. | #Write down your password. | ||
#On this page: [[image_logo_url]] put just the url for the logo that you want in the upper left corner of your wiki. | #On this page: [[image_logo_url]] put just the url for the logo that you want in the upper left corner of your wiki. | ||
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Revision as of 21:38, 26 January 2008
This wiki contains narrative family histories for the ancestors of my wife Sue and I as well as related branch and off shoots. You are welcome add your knowledge to this page.
==First Steps=
Click on the "Login/Create Account link in the sidebar menu on the left side of this page. Enter a user name, passwork and your real name.
- Important: Log in as admin and go to Preferences to change your password!
- Write down your password.
- On this page: image_logo_url put just the url for the logo that you want in the upper left corner of your wiki.
Other optional things to do
- Control the rights of anonymous and logged in users through the Control Panel (which can be found in the toolbox on the left side of this page).
- Add the url for your wiki to the Categorized wiki list. Simply edit that page and put your wiki under the appropriate category.
- To increase the amount of space you have for uploads, add links to http://editthis.info from external sites, and go to the Link Quota Page to increase your uploads quota.
- Edit MediaWiki:Sidebar to change the navigation menu
- Add this wiki to some external wiki indexes:
- If you are feeling adventurous and know a little about web design you can edit the javascript and css to the Header to change the look of your wiki.
- You must log as admin to do this
- Whatever you enter in this page will be added to the html in the header after the standard style sheet, so you can override styles.
- Read the User's Guide for other usage and configuration help.
- Add your wiki to the map of wikis
- Add a message to the Feedback Page if you see anything that could be improved.
