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NOTE: Eventually we will want to create our own more secure wiki, but for now at least security through obscurity is probably going to work better than not having a collaborative site at all.

I'll edit this Main Page more shortly, but for now I'll put most of my comments at Kurt because I want to leave the original default instructions and maybe just add a note or two up here at the top.

One must be logged in to edit a page but anyone can quickly get an account and be logged in. Once everyone is aboard we can raise the drawbridge but for now it will remain that any visitor can get an account and visit any page here.

Through the Control Panel it is possible to disallow anonymous users from getting an account. If we did that we would need to moderate and add new users ourselves. Anonymous users can also be disallowed from reading pages, but there is a warning that this is not to be considered secure and that anything posted may be seen by the world even if protected.

If logged in as Admin it is possible to do some additional administrative tasks including protecting pages from additional editing.

Contents 1 Personal Pages 2 Original Text 3 First Steps 4 Other optional things to do

Personal Pages

Kurt

Original Text

Wiki successfully set up.

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.