Help

general notes on organization

This wiki collects information and ideas that can help to grow the Occupy Boston movement. As authors we want to create compelling and interesting content. To a large extent, the wiki organizes itself as we link to each others ideas.

wiki philosophy and etiquette

The defining thing with wikis is summarized in the proviso on every page

If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here.

Wikipedia has proven that participatory democratic content creation can work on a worldwide basis. As a member of this wiki you can become a content creator. Before you modify a page consider that someone else probably put in the page what they thought was best. Before you modify a page check in with the prior editor/creator by:

• go to discussion tab for the page and create a topic that discusses your proposed changes. Sign your comments with ~~~~
• check the page history to find who authored the page. Click on their username and when you get to their page email them by clicking on the menu item in the lower left column.
• as an author try to be open to change and collaboration. No one really owns a page or the ideas on a page.

personal webspaces

This wiki (Mediawiki(same software that runs Wikipedia) allows the creation of webspaces for each user and working group.

As a general guideline, we suggest that you put your developing work, personal manifestos and collected interesting stuff in your user webspace. Consider the main wiki to be a public face of Occupy Boston and as such it should draw in readers to the movement with concise well edited content arrived at by an attempt at concensus.

Working Groups - pages a workspaces

Working Groups have a public face and can have a group workspace. To have a workspace for the group create a working group account by creating a new user account following the convention User:WG-groupname and create internal working group content as subpages of User:WG-groupname (see below)

referencing other documents

to link to pages on the wiki

Put a link using double brackets and the name at the top of the page like this [[page name]]

to link to pages on other sites

You can create a link to content off site by creating a link with single brackets like this [http://urlofpage.com/page]

posting a document hosted only on your personal computer

Click on 'Upload file' on the left menu bar.

Adding Notes

• Notes about format and language often belong right on the page.
• Notes should be in brackets and announced. [Note: This is an example of a note.]

In order to contribute you need to...

to create a login account on occupyboston wiki

1. click-on the login/create_account button in the upper right corner
2. click on "Create an Account"
3. Put in username, password and email

Creating content (basic)

Creating your own content is easy. You can edit any page by clicking on Edit this page (top right) . You can comment on any page by clicking on Discussion tab. After you add your content sign it by clicking on the signature button (the second button from the right on top or enter ~~~) then save page (bottom).Mcktimo 00:47, 23 October 2011 (EDT)

creating content in your webspace

1st make sure you are logged in.

To write in your page click on your username at the top of the page. Click on edit this page. Just start writing at the top of the page. Your prior writing will be pushed down and your most current writing will always be at the top of the page. Start a new paragraph by skipping a line. Don't indent(if you want a paragraph to be indented put a : in front of it). Hit save page (at the bottom of the page) to save your work. Do it often!

making a table of contents and titles/heading

To organize your work give each piece of writing its own title. To create a title, type, on its own line:

==your title here==

making __NOTOC__

Put that at the top of your page if you don't want to show a table of contents.

you cannot erase

You can always get back to a prior version of the page by clicking on it in view history(top right)

taking notes, creating lists

To organize your notes you can use bullet lists and numbered lists. To create a bullet list like this

• first point
• another point
• etc

just start a line with an *
For a numbered list

1. first
2. second
3. third

just start each line with a # symbol (don't skip lines)

writing a poem

If you don't skip a line the text on the next line always 'wraps' to follow the text on the line above. Sometimes that's not cool,like for a poem. To avoid word wrap you can use <pre> </pre>

Another way to prevent word wrap is to just skip a line.

using the graphical editor

A graphical editor is a little slower. It hides the guts of the wiki markup language.

moving stuff from Word?

Write in Word. Single spaced, do not indent first lines, skip lines between paragraphs. Copy and paste into the wiki when you are done.

There are many other cool things you can try that create nice pages...

other help

Editing and Formatting

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents

A lot of HTML will work in the wiki. Try editing HTML

SandBox

To try out formattng and editing features use this space

Magic Words

If you want to be able to do some thing like Wikipedia does we may need to add an extension. Find somebody from the OBIT(tech) working group and we'll try to get it set up.

Checking occupyboston.org email

To check your occupyboston.org email address go to the May First/People Link member page choose boggs as the server and enter your username and password.

For other email related questions check these FAQs.

Managing Mailing Lists

If you need to manage your mailing list, please read over these FAQs. If you cannot find and answer to your question, email obit@lists.mayfirst.org and ask for assistance.

We use software called Mailman for mailing lists. You can change how your address appears on the list by logging into the mailing list at https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/LIST_NAME and changing your settings.

If you do not know your password, you can put your email address in at the bottom and click submit and receive a password reminder, then you can log in. To keep your membership hidden, visit the page at https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/options/LIST_NAME - you will see an option that says "Conceal yourself from subscriber list?" check the "Yes" box, and save your options.

This can also be set globally by the list administrator, so you might want to ask on the list itself to have this option turned off.

If you need to set up a new email address email obit@lists.mayfirst.org and someone will set up a list for you.

List Moderation and Notices to List Owners

the trick for reducing the number of notices is to set the filter here:

https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/admin/EMAIL_LIST_NAME/privacy/sender

"Action to take for postings from non-members for which no explicit action is defined" -> Accept

The filter here:

https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/admin/EMAIL_LIST_NAME/privacy/subscribing

"What steps are required for subscription?" -> Confirm

The filter here:

https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/admin/EMAIL_LIST_NAME/general

"Should administrator get notices of subscribes and unsubscribes?" -> No

With these settings, you shouldn't get any requests for anything. This means the lists will be wide open, but it should also permit a more free flow of information without a bunch of notices.