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Welcome to WikiMACS, the (un)official wiki for all things WMACS-summer camp related!

We're just getting started, so there aren't too many entries yet. But sign up for an account and start surfing around! We hope to eventually have a page for every camper, counselor, inside joke, Frostburg classroom...you name it!

The best part is YOU can create a page for anything!

Sample pages: O_RLY,YA_RLY

First Steps

The username and password for the administrative account is admin, admin.

1. Important: Log in as admin and go to Preferences to change your password!
2. Write down your password.
3. 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:

1. Wikipedia list of wikis
2. WikiIndex
   

• 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.