How To Post a Moment

About Using this Wiki

This site is a WikiWikiWeb -- a collaborative authoring system that allows multiple people to edit a common set of pages via the World Wide Web.

A collective of people has begun to work on this website to develop a set of Alternative Heritage Moments. You can add a new moment to this site or you can browse the others, add comments and make corrections.

To edit a page, simply click the Edit Page link in the header or footer, and then modify the text in any way you want. Yes, you can even edit pages others have created--that's part of WikiNature. It creates the potential for a most repuatable source because if someone sees a mistake they can correct it.

Don't be afraid to edit—anyone can edit almost any page, and we encourage you to be bold (but please don't vandalize)! Find something that can be improved, either in content, grammar or formatting, and fix it.

You can't break a Wiki site. Anything can be fixed or improved later. So go ahead, edit an page and help prove wiki sites can be an excellent source of information that break down negative structures of power and give authority to collective process as apposed to hierarchy.

How to use this wiki

To stem vandalism we are not making our password public. If you would like to post a moment or help edit, please contact us at sgibbs2@connect.carleton.ca.

Select a category appropriate for your moment. Click on edit, enter the edit password and add the title of the moment in double square brackets (double square brackets look like [[ on the leftside and the opposite on the right). Save these changes. When you return to the index of the category's content your new moment's title should appear with a dotted underline. Click on this to arrive at your newly created section where you can edit to add content.

The rules for basic editing are fairly simple--start each line without spaces and put a blank line between paragraphs. There are more Text Formatting Rules for lists and other specialized text, if you want to do that. You can edit the WikiSandbox page if you want to try things out in a way that won't affect any of the pages on this site. To create references to other pages, run capitalized words together to make a WikiWord page title. This automatically creates a hyperlink.

After you Save a page, you may need to click Reload to make your browser do a refresh. This will let you see the changes you just made. Click the ? after any new WikiWords to edit them and add text.

A page's full name is GroupName.PageTitle, such as Main.HomePage. To refer to a page in the current group, write its PageTitle. To refer to a page in another group, write its full name.

If the page you want to make has no natural WikiWord title (for example it might be one word) use [[double brackets]] to create a link.

Not sure how best to organize a collection of wiki pages? The WikiStructure? guide describes the options.

Not sure how to write for wiki? The GoodStyle? guide describes wiki writing conventions.