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- | ==First Steps==
| + | The username and password for the administrative account is admin, admin. |
- | The username and password for the administrative account is '''admin''', '''admin'''. | + | #You should log in and change this now! |
- | #<font color="red">Important:</font> [[Special:Userlogin|Log in]] as admin and go to [[Special:Preferences|Preferences]] to change your password! | + | #On this page: [[image_logo_url]] put just the url for the logo. |
- | #Write down your password.
| + | #Please see the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] for other usage and configuration help. |
- | #On this page: [[image_logo_url]] put just the url for the logo that you want in the upper left corner of your wiki. | + | #Categorize your wiki. See [[Categorized Wiki List]] for a list of categories to place your wiki. To place your wiki in the appropriate category, edit this page (by clicking the above ''edit tab'') and put: |
- | | + | [[Category:''category name'']] |
- | | + | :at the bottom of this page. Where <u>''category name''</u> is a category that is found on the [[Categorized Wiki List]]. |
- | | + | :Don't see your category there, create a new category for your wiki! |
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- | ==Other optional things to do==
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- | *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).
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- | *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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- | *To increase the amount of space you have for uploads, add links to http://editthis.info from external sites, and go to the [http://editthis.info/wiki/index.php/Link_Quota_Page Link Quota Page] to increase your uploads quota.
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- | *Edit [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] to change the navigation menu
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- | *Add this wiki to some external wiki indexes:
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- | #[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki Wikipedia list of wikis]
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- | #[http://www.wikiindex.com/Add_a_Wiki WikiIndex]<br>
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- | *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.
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- | **You must log as admin to do this
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- | **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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- | *Read the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] for other usage and configuration help.
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- | *Add your wiki to the [http://editthis.info/wiki/index.php/Map_of_wikis map of wikis]
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- | *Add a message to the [http://www.editthis.info/wiki/index.php/Feedback Feedback Page] if you see anything that could be improved.
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