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

WMACS stands for the Washington Metropolitan Association of Chinese Schools. WMACS hosts a week-long sleep over camp (of the same name) that has been held at Frostburg State University since 1997. Kids that attend this camp range from age 8-17. What started out as a volleyball camp has evolved into a Chinese Culture camp where legendary attendees like Jeffrey Ian Chen, June Liang, and Kevin Fang have touched the hearts of many camp-goers. If you have taken part in this camp, please feel free to add anything you might remember about camp. This wiki was set up to keep the great memories and moments of camp alive.


We're just getting started, so there aren't too many entries yet.



What YOU need to do: Sign up for an account and start adding entries!


We hope to eventually have a page for every camper, counselor, inside joke, Frostburg classroom...you name it! The best part is you (yes you!) can create a page for anything! But first you must create an account to create or edit entries. Go to "Sign in/create account" in the top right to get started! Also, if you have anything to add to existing entries, please feel free to do so. Just make sure you leave what's already there, unless you're making a correction!



Hints:

  • To create a new entry, change the URL to editthis.info/wikimacs/(name of your new entry), then hit edit.
  • Blue links mean a page exists, red links mean they don't. You can edit a page by clicking "edit" at the top. If you follow a red link, it will take you straight to the edit screen for that page, letting you create it by writing the first version!
  • See sample pages for help with coding by clicking "edit"
  • Check out the Wikipedia tutorial Here!
  • Put [[ ]] around a word or phrase to link it to an internal WikiMACS page. Add |{word or phrase} if you want another word or phrase to appear as the text. For example, if I want to link to Cindy Yu's page, but only want it to say "Cindy," I would do this: Cindy (edit the main page and check the formatting to see how I did it)
  • Put [{URL, including http...} {text you want to appear}] to link to an external (non-WikiMACS) page, such as Google (again, check the formatting to see how I did it!).



Sample pages: O_RLY, YA_RLY, NO_WAI, Barry Huang, Quentin Tai, Brett Chung.


Here's a running list of things and ideas to add/edit:
Campers...
BU GUAIs...
Counselors...
Staff...
Teachers...
Frostburg
2nd Floor Lounge

Classes:
Arts and Crafts, Wushu, Folk Sports, Chorus, Calligraphy and Chinese Painting, Modern Dance, Traditional Dance
Jokes:
Quotes:
Stupid Tim Quotes, The Size of her Heart
Songs:
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight, Alex To stuff, Peng You
Awards/superlatives:
cutest... best... etc.
Activities:
Orientation, Games Night, Game Show Night, Night Market, Volleyball Tournament, Skit Night, The Dance, Field Day, Basketball Tournament, The Amazing Race

What are you waiting for? GO GO GO!!!


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.
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  • 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.
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