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| - | ==The Helsinki Times Project==
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| - | Already long before February 2003, when http://www.helsinkitimes.net was registered, the idea of an English Language daily newspaper for the Metropolitan area in the south of Finland was born.
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| - | There were many reasons for this, some of which I will list here later.
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| - | ==Web 2.0==
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| - | With the impact of internet on society in general in mind, we set out to research, evaluate, test and implement the latest and greatest applications we could find from the some of the most innovative internet companies in the world.
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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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Helsinki Times was first established in 2003 by Rockfield Communications and is the first online newspaper in the world where an Avatar (named Oobio) represents the editor-in-chief. The website http://www.helsinkitimes.net was first registered on February 24, 2003.
