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Welcome to the Sodor Island Forums Wiki! This wiki site is designed to give information about [http://sodor.proboards77.com/index.cgi Sodor Island Forums], or SiF for short. We still have a lot to do setting this all up, so please check back often for updates.
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==First Steps==
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==Contributing==
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The username and password for the administrative account is '''admin''', '''admin'''.
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In order to contribute to the wiki, please register an account. Only registered members will be allowed to add and edit pages, in order to avoid vandalism. We ask that only members of Sodor Island Forums register with us, because honestly, why would anyone else want to?
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#<font color="red">Important:</font>  [[Special:Userlogin|Log in]] as admin and go to [[Special:Preferences|Preferences]] to change your password!
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Once you have registered an account, feel free to start adding information. If you are unsure of what to do, then why not check [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User's_Guide The User's Guide] for help? I mean, it's not like it'll kill you (Unless it does, in which case we apologise for killing you).
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#On this page: [[image_logo_url]] put just the url for the logo that you want in the upper left corner of 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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#[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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Revision as of 17:53, 1 August 2006

Welcome to the Sodor Island Forums Wiki! This wiki site is designed to give information about Sodor Island Forums, or SiF for short. We still have a lot to do setting this all up, so please check back often for updates.

Contributing

In order to contribute to the wiki, please register an account. Only registered members will be allowed to add and edit pages, in order to avoid vandalism. We ask that only members of Sodor Island Forums register with us, because honestly, why would anyone else want to? Once you have registered an account, feel free to start adding information. If you are unsure of what to do, then why not check The User's Guide for help? I mean, it's not like it'll kill you (Unless it does, in which case we apologise for killing you).

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