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Finding help

For general help with Sugar, please see

→ Find help, and Getting started

→ Sugar Labs FAQ, for a compilation of the team FAQs

→ Category:FAQ - an index to all FAQ pages (with links for new questions)

→ Category:Help, for pages tagged as 'Help'

→ Category:HowTo, for pages tagged as 'HowTo'

→ Service - an index to Sugar Labs infrastructure services

→ Community Forums - on-line forums with lots of topics

If you can't find your answer, please request one or supply one!

New Help Requests & Answers

OLPC Project and XO laptop Help and Information

For general help and information about the OLPC Project, please see these links at their wiki:

Official OLPC FAQ, OLPC:Support FAQ, for questions about the XO laptop and its use, OLPC:Support, for more support mechanisms, OLPC::Category:OLPC FAQ, and Ask OLPC a Question (in roughly that order).

Setting Wiki Preferences

Visit your preferences page to adjust a variety of viewing and editing options for the wiki.

If you prefer not to experience the Sugar cursors, see Wiki Team/Resources/Remove Sugar Cursors.

Help on Using (building) the Sugar Labs wiki

Sugar Labs Wiki Guide

The Sugar Labs wiki is a standard installation of MediaWiki software for collaborative website building.

For a video introduction to wikis, see http://www.commoncraft.com/video/wikis.
See also wikipedia:Wiki.

See the Sugar Labs page for an overview of the organization and wiki structure for how this wiki models the organization.

Navigation

Navigation
Searching
Discussion
Recentchanges, a Special:Specialpages that tracks page changes.
Allpages, another Special page.

Editing

Basics

Overview - A generic wiki overview
Page Creation - Guidance on creating pages on this wiki
Style Guide - Writing style and conventions that are encouraged on the wiki
Wiki Structure - Sugar Labs wiki organization
Editing Pages
Formatting
Links
Talkpages
Category:Video Widget - How to embed videos
Category:Page flagging template - How to flag pages in special categories
Category:Highlighting template - How to highlight information on pages

Intermediate

Categories
Images
File Upload
Citations
User Links
Watchlist
hover explanations, such as, abbr are encoded like this: <abbr title="abbreviation">abbr</abbr>

Advanced

Guide pages

Policies

Create documented process for requesting sysop priv, for now model on OLPC:Administrators

Administrative privs are generally granted based on a need to use them to do "something good" for the wiki. At present, this is accomplished in a fairly informal manner, leaving a message on the discussion page or contacting one or more bureaucrats via wiki-mail would be a good place to start.

Wiki Infrastructure

Service/wiki
Wiki-barnraising, harmonization of familiar and useful templates, plug-ins, extensions (e.g. traclink,etc.) from OLPC wiki.
It would be good to get some countervandalism software (bot) running. User:Cjl has done some analysis of the vandalism (and countervandalism) actions on wiki.l.o and is interested in coordinating an effort that would cover both wikis with some automated countervandalism tools

Pages under construction

To aid collaborators, please use the Template:Under construction to signal that the page content is not stable and to avoid unintentional overwriting.
Category:Under construction will show pages in this state

Test wikis

Note: The following two wikis share the same page database, but have separate server configurations. Please observe http://wiki-devel.sugarlabs.org/go/Category:Under_construction before overwriting the page database.

http://wiki-devel.sugarlabs.org is set up for experimentation (Installed on Sunjammer at /srv/www-sugarlabs/wiki-devel/)
http://wiki-testing.sugarlabs.org is set up for testing (Installed on Sunjammer at /srv/www-sugarlabs/wiki-testing/)

Synchronize plug ins and templates

Trac related
Iframe
Semantic MediaWiki

Other Community Wikis

Example of how other communities are using their Wikis.

Wiki Team/Resources

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