Help:Site Features
From WaterWiki.net
Here's a quick look at the main features of the Wiki software
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Basic Structure
In a Wiki, information is organized into "articles". These can be edited or new articles added by people using the Wiki, without going through an editor or facilitator. The Wiki supports collaborative knowledge generation as well as updating.
Top row
- Log in
- At the top right of the page, you'll see a link to the log in page. Login is not required to read, but to edit or upload documents. Just use your UNDP login and password, or contact the Wiki administrator for a user account.
- Watchlist
- The watchlist link allows you to track changes made to an article / page that you are interested in. Just add the page you are interested in to your watchlist.
Tabs
At the top of every article/page in WaterWiki are three tabs:
- The article-tab is selected by default; it displays a particular/page article in regular "read-mode".
- the edit-tab brings up the editing-window (see below)
- the history-tab lists the past versions of this article/page; you can compare and display the changes made, or even restore an earlier version
- the watch-tab marks this article to be displayed bold in the "Recent changes" list
Breadcrumbs
Below the article tabs is a list of the last five pages you've visited in the Wiki. This is useful to find your way back to an article while browsing.
Left Column
Links to useful pages are always available on the left side column of every page.
- Navigation
- Recent changes is a list of pages that have been recently edited on the Wiki; it is a good tool to get a sense of what's been happening lately.
- Go/Search
- Search within article titles and article text for keywords. The "Go" button brings you directly to the article/page with the exact name entered in the search window. If irt doesn't exist yet, search results are displayed (and the option to start a new article with this title - see below).
