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Terms to Know
Wiki – Hawaiian for “quick” or “informal.” A wiki can refer to a quick informal webpage that anyone can edit, or the collaborative software that allows for this practice.
Wiki Farm – website that hosts wikis, so you don’t have to download, install or host anything on your own server, or worry about the programming end of creating a wiki.
Wiki Gnome – anonymous poster who bats cleanup, tirelessly making minor edits.
Wiki Squatting – using a wiki as free personal webspace
Wiki Tags – elements that add formatting, such as bold, italics, etc.
Wikipedian – avid contributor to Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia, created and maintained by its users.
Sandbox – wiki page for testing and playing
Orphan page – page with no links that has been abandoned or not updated
Walled Garden – a series of Wiki pages that link only to one another
Editing the Metrowest Wiki
1. Go to http://metrowest.pbwiki.com
2. Enter your name
3. Enter your email address
4. Enter the password ****
(Metrowest members may email bethg AT mmrls.org for the password!)
Wiki Tags
You don’t need to know HTML to edit a wiki; formatting such as headings, italics, bold and links are done with one or two keystrokes. A list of common tags follows:
* = bullet
! = headline
** = bold
'' = italic
| = box
NewPage = new page (two or more words strung together with no spaces and capital first letters creates a new page and a link to that page
[url|link] to create a hyperlink to somewhere on the web
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