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Note from another page: "Why don't you add your wiki to the [Directory]? That way the "crawlers" will make it more accessible to google." So we should avoid listing our site there until we're ready to go live. Line to add at that time: "|| ["HSL Wiki"] || [wiki:hsl] || [1] || Saranac Lake, NY, USA || ||"

Tabs are set in General Settings. We need to think about what belongs in tabs— basically anything you want to be able to get to from any page.

RandomQuote(Random Images) load as many images as you can stand into Random Images file as a bulleted list, and it pulls one at a time

Marc, I looked at those "good wiki" pages and seems like — as I'm sure you know — standard practice is to just have 3-4 tabs up there. I like the "all pages" though. Speaking of standard practice, I bet this is not correct to post a note to you here. Are there rules about that kind of thing? Guess I should go read more on those tips on the front page. Did you put those tips there, or do they come with the page when you are starting it new and then eventually we move or remove them? — Amy

I know, this is just for now, while we're feeling our way around. It's easy to undo/redo, and I'm sure we'll be doing lots of that.

As for rules on things like where to put comments, that's all up to us.  There is a nice tool specifically made to add comments to a page: Comments added to a page produces this

1. Comments— Marc

As for the tips/documentation here and there, it pretty much all came with the default setup. I've edited some of it— one of the best things about this setup is that almost everything is editable! You can go back and look at the original state of a page by clicking on the "Info" button, and then clicking on "view" on the lowest line. If you want to see what the whole thing looked like originally, there are always a bunch of untouched wikis here and there, especially on the [Wikis] page. Try [[2]], for example.
Deciding on how much policy to craft ahead of time and how much to create on the fly is worth thinking about. You don't want users to feel like you're pushing them around too much, but you do need to keep them in line. In the best case, they police themselves, and come up with their own policy. Wikipedia turns to it's founder, Jimmy Wales, from time to time when users are at loggerheads. I think we need to cast Mary or you in that role.

"User Statistics" is a list of all users and their edits— see the bottom of any "Recent Changes" page, or use User Statistics.

For a Users complete contribution history, click Info then User's Info.

Heading on a paragraph about what a wiki is: A Whati?

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[[3]] [[4]] <- The mother ship [[5]] <- they've messed with their css style sheet [[6]] see the story about them in the Sacramento News and Review, bottom of the Wiki News section [[7]] [[8]] [[9]] <- css [[10]] [[11]] <- Very nice design— they moved the tabs to a column on the left! [[12]] beautiful design but moribund [[13]] 700+ pages [[http:/ evada.wikispot.org/|nevada]] 1060 pages! [[14]] [[15]] started by 6th graders!

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