Wikis in general
Wiki is hawaiian and means fast. The software called wiki is thought to enable spacially distributed groups to create websites collaboratively and very easily, i.e. fast.
It looks weird at first, but after you get used to it, it makes things considerably easier. It helped the development of our association in the core team a lot and we believe that it will even more do so in its open form.
Here is an introductory link to a page on a different wiki website that explains what a wiki is: UseMod:WhatIsaWiki.
Here is an even quicker introduction (specific to the software on this website):
- Anyone can edit any page and is encouraged to do so. On the page you wish to change, use the “Edit this page” link at the bottom.
- Each page keeps a version history for the last two weeks, so don’t worry about screwing stuff up; other community members will back out your changes if they don’t like them (this is done with the “View other revisions” link).
- Recent Changes lets you see how others are changing or adding to the wiki.
- Words surrounded by double square brackets like [[About Wiki]] are automatically linked to the page named after that word. If there is no such page, a question mark link is created as an invitation to create one.
- Links with a colon in them or surrounded by square brackets (Like:This, or [like this]) go to other, different websites.
If you are wondering why a wiki can work, see MeatBall:WhyWikiWorks.
Medical Wikis
Not a wiki, but also a collaborative online medical project is the Flexikon at http://flexicon.doccheck.com/ [de]
More advanced usage
- See UseMod:TextFormattingRules for a detailed specification of the markup used to make bold text, etc. (you don’t need to read through that page, though, since the edit page provides a short help below the editing window).
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