Toward a Minor Tech:Editing guide

Newsletter sprint

Some practical notes for the newsletter spring during the workshop:

• Contributors page: we are collecting page a short text about the authors of each text at Contributors
• Preview the newspaper: click View PDF on this page https://cc.vvvvvvaria.org/wiki/Pdf:Toward_a_Minor_Tech
• Timezone settings of the wiki: under Preferences > Appearance > Time offset
• Contact Simon & Manetta: For any questions, suggestions, struggles, you can find us in this chat room at https://hello.vvvvvvaria.org/

Peer-annotations

We will work with peer-annotations using embedded etherpads.

To enable peer-annotations:

1. Copy this line of code to the writing area:

<div class="pad"><eplite id="CHANGEME" show-chat="false" /></div>

2. Change the id="" value from CHANGEME into an etherpad name of choice.

For example into the title of your contribution.

NOTE: You cannot use spaces in the id="" value.

3. Scroll down and click "Save page" to save the page.

4. The etherpad should appear on the right side of the screen.

Editing

To edit a page, you can use the visual editor or the wiki syntax editor.

Visual editor

• to use it, click Edit
• uses a WYSIWYG editor
• Visual editor user guide

Wiki syntax editor

• to use it, click Edit source
• uses a specific mark up language: wiki syntax
• Wiki syntax user guide

Categories

NOTE: It's recommended practice to add the category assigners at the bottom of your page.

Add your page to the category Toward a Minor Tech, by including the following line in your page:

[[Category:Toward a Minor Tech]]

1000 words

If you work on your 1000 words version (the preliminary text for the workshop), please include the following category assigner in your page:

[[Category:1000 words]]

500 words

If you work on your 500 words version (shorter version as part of the workshop), please include the following category assigner in your page:

[[Category:500 words]]

5000 words

If you work on your 5000 words version (for the online journal APRJA), please include the following category assigner in your page:

[[Category:5000 words]]

Skins

The interface of MediaWiki's are called skins.

The default skin that is used on this wiki is Vector, but more skins are installed.

You can change the skin for yourself only, by following these steps:

1. Click on Preferences in the right-top corner.
2. Click on Appearance.
3. Select a skin from the list.
4. Click Save.

NOTE: This does not change the skin for everyone. It only changes for your user account.