Wireless Working Group

• a technology for collaborative creation of internet and intranet pages
• Wiki-Wiki is hawaii and means fast
  

• Fast - fast editing, communicating and easy to learn
  
  
• Open - everybody may read and edit everything
• Uncomplicated - everything works in a standard browser
• Easy - no HTML knowledge necessary, simply formatted text
• Simple - Content over Form (content counts, not the super-pretty appearance)
• Secure - every change is archived, nothing gets lost
• Interlinked - Links between pages are easy to make
• Flexible
  • Personal Information Management, Knowledgebases, Brainstorming
  • Collaboration, Coordination and Communication platform
  • Creating documentation and slide shows
  • etc...
    
    

• Help with problems or questions: HelpContents () and HelpMiscellaneous/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
• UserPreferences
  • Name (appears on RecentChanges)
  • Email address for subscribing to page change emails and retrieving a lost login/password
  • Personal preferences
  • Link with User-ID ( in any case, put a bookmark on that)
• Structure of pages
  • Navigation: Quicklinks, Icons link to system actions (HelpOnNavigation)
  • "Recently visited pages" (see UserPreferences)
  • Content
  • Quick search and additional actions (HelpOnActions)

• Backlinks (click on title)
• Icons at top right (HelpOnNavigation)
• Title search and full text search at bottom of page
  
  

• WikiSandBox: Sandbox page to play around and experiment with
• RecentChanges: What has changed recently?
• SiteNavigation: A list of the different indices of the Wiki
• FindPage: Searching the Wiki by various methods
• TitleIndex: A list of all pages in the Wiki
• WordIndex: A list of all words in page titles (i.e. a list of keywords/concepts in the Wiki)

First Line
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Last Line

• first level
  • second Level
  • second item indented text without bullet
• first level again
  
  

1. first item
2. second item (automatically enumerated)
   
   

Term

Explanation

• Macros allow dynamic (computed) content to be inserted into pages.
• A macro is called by "MacroName".
• The parameters are optional, depending on the macro.
• The most important macros:
  • TableOfContents - show a local table of contents
  • Anchor - defines a link target line
  • FootNote - generates a footnote[1]
  • PageList - generates lists of pages with titles matching a pattern

• click on create page to start with an empty page or
• click on one of the listed templates to base your page on the content of the selected template.
  
  

• AttachFile: Attach files to a page (HelpOnActions/AttachFile)
• DeletePage: Delete a page (after a security question)
• LikePages: Lists pages with similar title
• LocalSiteMap: List of all pages that are referred to, up to a maximum of 4 levels
• SpellCheck: Call check spelling for the current page (HelpOnSpellCheck)

• If you want to edit a page without being disturbed, just write a note to that effect at the top of the page and save that change first.
• If two people edit a page simultaneously, the first can save normally, but the second will get a warning and should follow the directions to merge their changes with the already saved data.
• Personal Homepages: normally only changed by their owner, but you may append messages at the end of the page
  
  

• Naming
  • don't create arbitrary wikinames (OracleDatabase, not OraCle)
  • common prefixes (topical correlation)
  • common postfixes (same page type, e.g. ...Index)
• Index pages
• Categories (see CategoryCategory)
• Templates
• /SubPages (allow shorter links, automatic correlation: HelpOnEditing/SubPages)
• Follow the guidance of the Wiki used about how to name pages etc.