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-	Wiki successfully set up.	+	===Welcome:===
-	The username and password for the administrative account is admin, admin.	+	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.
-	#You should log in and change this now!	+
-	#On this page: [[image_logo_url]] put just the url for the logo.	+
-	#Please see the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] for other usage and configuration help.	+
-	#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.	+
-	-----	+	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.
-	Other things you can do:	+	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.
-	*Edit [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] to change the navigation menu	+
-	*Add this wiki to some external wiki indexes:	+	Entry point: [[UKI-England-Devon]]
-	#[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki Wikipedia list of wikis]	+
-	#[http://www.wikiindex.com/Add_a_Wiki WikiIndex]<br>	+
		+	Brian Randell, 4 Jan 2008

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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