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CSAAW wiki quickstart
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A wiki can be thought of as a web-based collaboration tool.
It allows us to collectively create and organize a web site
with information about the CSAAW group, including participant
contact information, meeting dates and places, meeting notes,
papers of interest from various areas, and so on.

Go to this page:
   http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~rlr/CSAAW/index.php
You probably want to bookmark that one, the top of the CSAAW wiki.

We are just starting to add and organize information on this wiki,
so it is a work in progress.  Remember -- this is a colloborative
project, so please do add pages and information you think will be useful.

Wiki's are *very* easy to change. Basically you go:

- bring up the page you want to change in your browser

- click on the "edit" link in the upper right of the page. 
  the pw is  *bugs!   including the asterisk and bang characters.
  you will only enter that once per "session"

- that will bring up an edit window, and you will see the content   
  that is already on the page.
  You can then just type in that window to add more text, change
  text, and so on.    You can copy/cut/paste in the usual ways.
  When you are done editing, just under the edit window there
  are save, save and edit, preview and cancel buttons.
  normally you will save or cancel.

- You can get some idea of the formatting rules that the wiki
  uses by looking at existing CSAAW wiki pages and editing them to
  see what was entered to produce that page.
  There is a short list of reminders about formatting just under
  the Edit window when you are editing a page.
  There is also a link to "Text Formatting Rules" page for   
  full wiki documentation.

- Some common formatting rules:
  - A blank line starts a new paragraph
  - You can force a newline by adding \\ to the end of a line
  - You can start a new subpage by entering something like
      [[My new page name -> MyNewPage]]
    The text on the left of the -> will be what appears on the page
    as the link name.  The phrase on the right of the -> is
    the wiki name for the page.  Note that the pmWiki (the wiki
    we are using) assumes names that HaveMixedCaseLikeThis
    are wiki page names.  So if you enter something like PhD
    to get it to not think its a page, add some single quotes: Ph''''D .
  - You can link to external pages the same way:
      [[ my external link name -> http://whatever ]]

As mentioned above, the best way to see how to do things is
to visit existing pages, edit them to see how they were produced.

**NOTE: don't worry about wrecking things irretrievably.
  Within the wiki there are ways to restore pages to previous state,
  and CSCS (the host for the wiki) has 1-day and 2-day old backups,
  as well as weekly backups that are saved for months/years.

I also would suggest you just play around a bit on a practice page.
Here are some steps to produce a practice area:

- go to the main page (see above)
- click on the CoreParticipants page
- Edit that page
- Copy the lines for some person already there, and then
  paste it to the bottom of the page, and edit it to have    
  your name, email, tele, fax and home page.
- Save the page
- You will see your information appear, but Your Name link
  will have an superscript up-arrow (or delta) character.
  That means that page has not been created yet.
  To create that page, click on that link.
  You will be automatically put into edit mode for that page.
  You can enter anything you want there---text, new subpages, etc. 
  I would suggest first just putting this on the page:

       Test page for Z

       ----
       [[Main.CoreParticipants]]

  where you replace Z with your name.
  Then save.  You will see your new page.
  There will be a link at the bottom to the Participants page.   
  You can then edit it again to add more information, to
  add subpages and so on.

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How to upload files:

On the page you want the upload to appear on, edit the page
and enter in something like:
  [[ link name for uploaded file -> Attach:filename.pdf ]]
Save the page.
You will see the line
    link name for uploaded file
appear on the page, again with a superscript indicating 
the material has not been uploaded yet.
Click on that link, it will prompt you for the location
of the file to upload.

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If you have problems or questions, please drop me a line:
 Rick Riolo <rlriolo@umich.edu>

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