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First Steps
The username and password for the administrative account is admin, admin.
- Important: Log in as admin and go to 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.
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 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 Link Quota Page to increase your uploads quota.
- Edit MediaWiki:Sidebar to change the navigation menu
- Add this wiki to some external wiki indexes:
- 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 User's Guide for other usage and configuration help.
- Add your wiki to the map of wikis
- Add a message to the Feedback Page if you see anything that could be improved.
Intro
Welcome to the Scouting wiki.
A wiki is a collabrotave effort, run by volunteers and contributed by any one. This one is about scouting in genral, and sepcific to the Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, and Such.
Two sister projects :
- Girl Scouts
- Order of the Arrow Troop/Team Representative Training Sessions
If any one would or needs help starting one of the above projects (or one of their own), please contact us, and we can help out.
Possible topics:
- How to keep older boys interested?
- How to keep contacts with Packs and Lodges?
- Common Board of Review questions and explainations
- Possible ways to demonstrate the scout oath, law, motto and slogan
- Resources to merit badges (including meritbadge.com)
- Explain the purpose of a Venture Crew, The Order of the Arrow, Varsity Team, etc.
- Information on a Council or District
- Proper commitee and patrol leader council functions
- Explainations of the Positions
- Dutch oven recipes
