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-	Wiki successfully set up.	+	===Welcome:===
-	==First Steps==	+	This is the access page to a small set of information pages that constitute an initial experiment in seeing how GENUKI could be implemented in a wiki.
-	The username and password for the administrative account is '''admin''', '''admin'''.	+
-	#<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.	+
-	#On this page: [[image_logo_url]] put just the url for the logo that you want in the upper left corner of your wiki.	+
		+	Currently there are just three pages in this set, based on the Devon county page, the Towns and Parishes page, and the Abbots Bickington page. These are interlinked appropriately, and provide links leading out to GENUKI proper and elsewhere. Such external links are distinguished by the inclusion of a little double square icon.
		+	The present experiment has concentrated on providing a replica of the GENUKI look and feel (as opposed to mimicking Wikipedia's style), and on investigating how much of GENUKI's source HTML can be reused in the wiki. Problems that it has exposed, and not investigated, include (i) how to represent and store GENUKI's hierchically organised set of pages, (ii) how the handcrafted conversions, particularly related to linking, that have created these wiki pages could be automated, and (iii) how to convert GENUKI's conventional HTML into Wikimedia's simplified text mark-up language, so as to increase the chances of casual users taking on editing.
		+	Entry point: [[UKI-England-Devon]]
-		+	Brian Randell, 4 Jan 2008
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-	==Other optional things to do==	+
-	*Control the rights of anyomus 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.	+
-	*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.	+
-	*Edit [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] to change the navigation menu	+
-	*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.	+
-	*Read the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] for other usage and configuration help.	+
-	*Add your wiki to the [http://editthis.info/wiki/index.php/Map_of_wikis map of wikis]	+
-	*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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Current revision as of 17:22, 4 January 2008

Welcome:

This is the access page to a small set of information pages that constitute an initial experiment in seeing how GENUKI could be implemented in a wiki.

Currently there are just three pages in this set, based on the Devon county page, the Towns and Parishes page, and the Abbots Bickington page. These are interlinked appropriately, and provide links leading out to GENUKI proper and elsewhere. Such external links are distinguished by the inclusion of a little double square icon.

The present experiment has concentrated on providing a replica of the GENUKI look and feel (as opposed to mimicking Wikipedia's style), and on investigating how much of GENUKI's source HTML can be reused in the wiki. Problems that it has exposed, and not investigated, include (i) how to represent and store GENUKI's hierchically organised set of pages, (ii) how the handcrafted conversions, particularly related to linking, that have created these wiki pages could be automated, and (iii) how to convert GENUKI's conventional HTML into Wikimedia's simplified text mark-up language, so as to increase the chances of casual users taking on editing.

Entry point: UKI-England-Devon

Brian Randell, 4 Jan 2008