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<noinclude>{{TeamHeader|Wiki Team}}
 
[[Category:Wiki]]
 
[[Category:Wiki]]
 
[[Category:Help]]
 
[[Category:Help]]
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=Finding answers to help=
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=Finding help=
 
For general help with Sugar, please see
 
For general help with Sugar, please see
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'''&rarr;''' '''[[Sugar help]]''', and '''[[Getting Started | Getting started]]'''
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'''&rarr;''' '''[[Find help]]''', and '''[[Getting Started | Getting started]]'''
    
'''&rarr;''' '''[[Sugar Labs/FAQ | Sugar Labs FAQ]]''', for a compilation of the team FAQs
 
'''&rarr;''' '''[[Sugar Labs/FAQ | Sugar Labs FAQ]]''', for a compilation of the team FAQs
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'''&rarr;''' '''[[:Category:HowTo]]''', for pages tagged as 'HowTo'
 
'''&rarr;''' '''[[:Category:HowTo]]''', for pages tagged as 'HowTo'
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'''&rarr;''' '''[[Service]]''' - an index to Sugar Labs infrastructure services
    
'''&rarr;''' '''[[Sugar_Labs/Communication channels#Forums|Community Forums]]''' - on-line forums with lots of topics
 
'''&rarr;''' '''[[Sugar_Labs/Communication channels#Forums|Community Forums]]''' - on-line forums with lots of topics
    
If you can't find your answer, please request one or ''supply one!''
 
If you can't find your answer, please request one or ''supply one!''
: '''[[Sugar_help#Help Requests: | New Help Requests & Answers]]'''
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: '''[[Request help | New Help Requests & Answers]]'''
 
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: [[OLPC:Official OLPC FAQ | 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 [[OLPC:Ask OLPC a Question | Ask OLPC a Question]] (in roughly that order).
 
: [[OLPC:Official OLPC FAQ | 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 [[OLPC:Ask OLPC a Question | Ask OLPC a Question]] (in roughly that order).
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=Setting Wiki Preferences=
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Visit your [[Special:Preferences|preferences page]] to adjust a variety of viewing and editing options for the wiki.
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* If you prefer not to experience the Sugar cursors, see [[Wiki Team/Resources/Remove Sugar Cursors]].
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<div style="font-size: 1.5em; background: #ffffff; padding: 0px;" align=left>'''Help on Using (building) the Sugar Labs wiki'''</div>
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<div style="font-size: 1.7em; background: #ffffff; padding: 0px;" align=left>'''Help on Using (building) the Sugar Labs wiki'''</div>
 
=Sugar Labs Wiki Guide=
 
=Sugar Labs Wiki Guide=
The Sugar Labs wiki is a standard installation of [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki Media Wiki] software for collaborative website building.
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The Sugar Labs wiki is a standard installation of [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki] software for collaborative website building.
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* For a video introduction to wikis, see http://www.commoncraft.com/video/wikis.
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* See also [[wikipedia:Wiki]].
    
See the [[Sugar Labs]] page for an overview of the organization and [[Wiki Team/Guide/Wiki Structure| wiki structure]] for how this wiki models the organization.
 
See the [[Sugar Labs]] page for an overview of the organization and [[Wiki Team/Guide/Wiki Structure| wiki structure]] for how this wiki models the organization.
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* [[:Category:Video Widget]] - How to embed videos
 
* [[:Category:Video Widget]] - How to embed videos
 
* [[:Category:Page flagging template]] - How to flag pages in special categories
 
* [[:Category:Page flagging template]] - How to flag pages in special categories
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* [[:Category:Highlighting template]] - How to highlight information on pages
    
===Intermediate===
 
===Intermediate===
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* [[Wiki Team/Guide/User Links | User Links]]
 
* [[Wiki Team/Guide/User Links | User Links]]
 
* [[Wiki Team/Guide/Watchlist | Watchlist]]
 
* [[Wiki Team/Guide/Watchlist | Watchlist]]
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* hover text/tip - <nowiki>[[Target Link|<span title="Any hover text">Displayed Link text </span>]]</nowiki>
 
* hover explanations, such as, <abbr title="abbreviation">abbr</abbr> are encoded like this: {{Code|<nowiki><abbr title="abbreviation">abbr</abbr></nowiki>}}
 
* hover explanations, such as, <abbr title="abbreviation">abbr</abbr> are encoded like this: {{Code|<nowiki><abbr title="abbreviation">abbr</abbr></nowiki>}}
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*[[Special:PrefixIndex/Template:]]
 
*[[Special:PrefixIndex/Template:]]
 
*[[Wiki Team/Guide/Interwiki Linking | Interwiki Linking]]
 
*[[Wiki Team/Guide/Interwiki Linking | Interwiki Linking]]
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*[[:Template:Transclude]]
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*[[Wiki Team/Guide/Collapsible content|Collapsible content]]
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*[[:Template:Iframe]]
 
*[[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]
 
*[[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]
 
*[[Wiki Team/Guide/Patrolled Edits | Patrolled Edits]]
 
*[[Wiki Team/Guide/Patrolled Edits | Patrolled Edits]]
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* Wiki-barnraising, harmonization of familiar and useful templates, plug-ins, extensions (e.g. traclink,etc.) from OLPC 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 [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC:Bot_Interest_Group coordinating an effort] that would cover both wikis with some automated countervandalism tools
 
* 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 [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC:Bot_Interest_Group coordinating an effort] that would cover both wikis with some automated countervandalism tools
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===Pages under construction===
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* To aid collaborators, please use the [[:Template:Under construction]] to signal that the page content is not stable and to avoid unintentional overwriting.
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* [[:Category:Under construction]] will show pages in this state
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===Test wikis===
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: {{Highlight|'''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.}}
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* http://wiki-devel.sugarlabs.org is set up for experimentation (Installed on Sunjammer at /srv/www-sugarlabs/wiki-devel/)
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* http://wiki-testing.sugarlabs.org is set up for testing (Installed on Sunjammer at /srv/www-sugarlabs/wiki-testing/)
    
==Synchronize plug ins and templates==
 
==Synchronize plug ins and templates==

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