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-	Wiki successfully set up.	+	Welcome to the Brackbill Wiki! The purpose of this site is to collect information (mostly textual) about the Brackbill family of Lancaster County and its extended relatives (Sheaffers, Hersheys, Leamans).
-	==First Steps==	+	==What's here==
-	The username and password for the administrative account is '''admin''', '''admin'''.	+	* [[Herman Brackbill Journals]], 1937 - 1940 (work in progress)
-	#<font color="red">Important:</font>  [[Special:Userlogin|Log in]] as admin and go to [[Special:Preferences|Preferences]] to change your password!	+	* [[Letters and papers of Herman Brackbill]] (work in progress)
-	#Write down your password.	+	* Past [[Brackbill Reunion]] information (work in progress)
-	#On this page: [[image_logo_url]] put just the url for the logo that you want in the upper left corner of your wiki.	+	* [[Eva Sheaffer Journal]] (work in progress)
		+	* Online resources about the [[Brackbill family resources|Brackbill family]] (work in progress)
		+	==How to join==
		+	Lorem ipsum etcetera.
-		+	==For administrators==
-		+	* [[Admin to-do list]]
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-	==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 [http://www.editthis.info/wiki/index.php/Categorized_Wiki_List Categorized wiki list]. Simply edit that page and put your wiki under the appropriate category.	+
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-	*Add this wiki to some external wiki indexes:	+
-	#[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki Wikipedia list of wikis]	+
-	#[http://www.wikiindex.com/Add_a_Wiki WikiIndex]<br>	+
-	*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.	+
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Revision as of 22:44, 16 January 2008

Welcome to the Brackbill Wiki! The purpose of this site is to collect information (mostly textual) about the Brackbill family of Lancaster County and its extended relatives (Sheaffers, Hersheys, Leamans).

What's here

• Herman Brackbill Journals, 1937 - 1940 (work in progress)
• Letters and papers of Herman Brackbill (work in progress)
• Past Brackbill Reunion information (work in progress)
• Eva Sheaffer Journal (work in progress)
• Online resources about the Brackbill family (work in progress)

How to join

Lorem ipsum etcetera.

For administrators

• Admin to-do list