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Occupy.net Wiki
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Occupy.net Wiki
resources for contributors
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Welcome to the RƎVO⅃UTION
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Can you:
- Write about what you are doing
- Check for typos
- Look things up
- Discuss what we should do next
- Make a page look better
- Design a template
- Thank someone for volunteering
- Fix a grammar mistake
- Show someone how to wiki
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Welcome! You are already changing your world just by being here, but we want you to do something a bit more: we'd like you be active. Here, on this wiki, but better yet be active in your community, in your neighborhood, in your General Assembly. Because we, and that's all of us including you, need to hear your voice.
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How do I:
- Get around this site?
- The left sidebar navigates the site, the row of tabs up above are the actions you can take with this page, and above that is your user account menu.
- Edit a page?
- At the top of the page should be an edit tab (if you have logged-in.) Just click it.
- Find help?
- Help:Contents has many articles to get you started on the wiki, but you can also ask questions of administrators, or leave a message on another user's talk page.
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Wikis for the People
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In addition to the on-wiki help pages, there are other ways to find help online. Wiki mailing list at occupyeverywhere.org will quickly put you in touch with knowledgeable people who run wiki.occupy.net. Even more quickly if you have an IRC client, you can join #Wiki-support channel on irc.fusionfs.com for some real-time support.
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There are many help pages:
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The following features require extra permissions that are not normally granted to all wiki users.
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This is just throwing dozens of links to pages where you can read about how to do things, and they really do help! but not everyone can just read a page and learn how to do things. First: you cannot break this website. Please, go ahead and experiment! it is easy to change things back to the way they were before you edited, if necessary. Second: Ask others! This message is on your talk page; and every user has a talk page. There are also community discussions and you can also ask an administrator for support.
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A wiki is not a software designed for clear, threaded conversations; quite the opposite in fact! It is more like many people talking about a single statement, and every so often what everyone has said is simplified into single unified statement (a process called refactoring.)
But before the refactor, we all agree to follow certain communications guidelines:
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- Never edit another user's comment. (Well, maybe fix a typo if it really really bugs you.)
- Add one more ':' to the start of your response to someone's comments, until there are lots and it's hard to count. Then insert a line saying you're 'undenting', and go back to one colon at the start of your comment.
- Be brief, on-topic, focused on actions. Avoid justifications, persuasive arguments, etc. Use a better forum for those messages.
- Generally, add your post to the bottom. Wikis are refactored from the top (older conversations) to the bottom (new conversations.)
- Sign your message, so we know who said what in the conversation. In mediawiki this can be done by adding 3 '~', which will be replaced with your signature (see Help:Signatures), or 4 '~' which will be replaced with your signature + timestamp.
- Include an edit summary. Mention what the edit is about. "Baffled" doesn't cut it, but "Baffled by user preferences" does.
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These guidelines are about how best to communicate on the wiki. There are plenty of other guidelines which we are sure you are aware of: do not be rude, do not shout, play nice with others, and so on. Etiquette is the social lubricant which keeps us working smoothly with the least friction: apply liberally.
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