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it is a good idea to read first this section….
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Wikidot-For-Beginners
This is the entry page with the essentials of wikidot.com for absolut beginners.
it is a good idea to read first this section….
| Wikdot for beginners |
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| what is a wiki site? Introduction terms of service (Legal issues) What Is A License ? Find A Page Create an account Login At Wikidot Logout From Wikidot Private messaging Profile settings Join a Wiki |
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what-is-a-wiki-site
According to Wikipedia, the world largest wiki site:
A Wiki ([ˈwiː.kiː] <wee-kee> or [ˈwɪ.kiː] <wick-ey>) is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit and change most content very quickly and easily.
And that is it! As a part of Wikidot.com network this Site is a customizable piece of the Internet where Users can edit content, upload files, communicate and collaborate.
Introduction
This section contains the overview about wikidot network, browsers, users , roles, accounts, sites.
All links open in an extra window.
What is Wikidot
Have a look on the explaination on http://www.wikidot.com/what-is-wiki
Typical general questions about wikidot: http://www.wikidot.com/faq:general-questions
Browser Requirements
Here is the point to have a look: http://www.wikidot.com/doc:browser-requirements
Technical answers: http://www.wikidot.com/faq:technical
Users
User- their roles and permissions: http://www.wikidot.com/doc:users
User- their accounts: http://www.wikidot.com/faq:user-accounts
Sites
Site Features and Managing Sites : http://www.wikidot.com/faq:site-features
Editing pages:
Some overview - answers about Editing: http://www.wikidot.com/faq:editing-pages
terms-of-service
[[include http://www.wikidot.com/legal:terms-of-service]]
What-Is-A-License
This article is meant as a general introduction to licenses. As the specific laws will vary from place to place and given the fact that the author is not a lawyer, please do not consider this legal advice.
Thanks to hartnell for his words here, the founder of Game Design Novice - a typical Wikidot - Site created from him with the free Software of Wikidot - it is Open Source!
What is a License?
In amateur game programming and design you hear about licenses all the time, especially when games and resources are distributed across the internet. In fact, even the the text of and resources provided by Game Design Novice are available under the terms of a license. What are these things, that we call licenses? What use are they? Do you really need one? This article will answer those questions.
Copyright
Before there can be a license, there must be copyright. Someone must own the rights to something. This is very important. Because if someone doesn't own the copyright, the material in question is public domain and therefore no license is needed.
Copyright, of course, is the legal right to control your work. Many people believe that copyright is the right to "profit" from your work. While this is certainly part of it, you can't profit from your work if you cannot control it. If anyone, anywhere, at anytime can copy your work, there is no reason for anyone to pay for it, they can just copy it.
Therefore, copyright gives you the legal right to determine who can and cannot make copies of your work.
The End User License
Whenever you buy and install software, you agree to what is commonly titled "The End User License". When you buy Adobe Photoshop or any other commercial software, you do not actually own the software. You do, however, own the CD that it came on. However, the program itself still belongs to the company who owns the copyright. The End User License gives you permission to use that software under certain conditions, assuming that you have paid for the permission to use it. The most common conditions of use under an End User License are :
- That you only use the software on one computer. After all, that's all you've paid to get permission for.
- That you do not make copies of it.
- That you do not hold the company responsible for any damages the software does.
The Group License
With an End User License it is assumed that one person has paid for permission to make one copy of the software. This copy is not necessarily a back-up copy and such laws are not discussed in this article. Instead, you must realize that when you install the software, you are making a copy of it. The copy is from CD to your computer.
The Group License is an option with many software packages and helps us illustrate the "permission" aspect of licenses. A group license grants further permission for the software to be copied on more than one computer. Often the limit is based on a finite limit (say 5) of computers, or all of the computers at a location (at one school). Naturally, since you are buying more instances of permission with a Group License, it costs quite a bit more.
Copyleft
The above two sections describe how a copyright holder sells permission to people who want to use their work. The permission, and the terms for gaining that permission, are encompassed in the license. But what if someone wants to retain copyright over a work and doesn't want money for someone to use it? What if they do not even care if someone asks for permission in the traditional sense (buying a product, or a friendly email)? Enter Copyleft.
A copyleft license such as a Creative Commons license or a GNU license gives permission for someone to use a copyrighted work under simple and easy to understand conditions without the exchange of money. For example, Game Design Novice is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. Under this license, you are allowed to use anything you see here (unless stated otherwise) for any reason as long as you follow one condition : You attribute the work to "The Game Designers of Game Design Novice" and link to the page you got it from.
In short, since money is not involved, and work is used more or less freely, Creative Commons and GNU licenses are a way for an author to get credit. In fact, if someone decides to use your work without following your conditions, there's nothing you can do about it without spending a large amount of money on lawyers. Here, in the Copyleft world, we tend to work on an honor system.
How to set and choose the license for your wiki
Go to your site manager yoursite.wikidot.com/admin:manage.
You can set different licenses for different categories of pages.
You will get a page with following content:
It is very important to clarify the copyright and ownership issues for your site. We highly recomment setting an open "copyleft" license that allows making the Content more or less free to copy, modify and use.
This is particularly important when your Site is created and edited collaboratively.
Read more about Creative Commons licenses, use a wizard to select the proper license or just visit Creative Commons.
Choose the category (typical example list here):
- _default
- admin
- css
- forum
- nav
- system
or set Inherit from "_default" for the others..
Choose the license:
( see list next paragraph)
Licenses supported
(copied from Site manager)
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License (recommended)
- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License
- Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 2.5
- Creative Commons Attribution 2.5
- Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives 2.5
- Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial 2.5
- Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike 2.5
- Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives 2.5
- GNU Free Documentation License 1.2
- Standard copyright (not recommended)
- Other: Custom license text: (max 300 characters ) - A few HTML tags are allowed: <a>, <img/>, <br/>, <strong>, <em>
Wikidot Terms of Service
Licences are part of Wikidot Terms of Service (TOS)
which can be read at http://www.wikidot.com/legal:terms-of-service
Conclusion
And there you have it, the bare minimum you need to know about licenses.
You will find the choosen license on a wikidot.com site as the last line at the bottom of any page! Have a look and you will find here:
"Unless stated otherwise Content of this page is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License"
ToDo
Adapt the text specifically to wiki edition …
gerdami
Find-A-Page
You have some ways to find a page in a site:
1. Search for any text
On the right top of your wikidot page you will find the search box where you can enter any text to search in the site (forum and/or pages). If the site uses a custom "theme" different to the used one in the community than you will find this "search box" perhaps on another location.
You will get a list of all pages (and/or forum threads) with such text in its content.
2. Module Pages used
If it is present you can use the menu point "List all pages" to show all pages in the site.
Or if not possible You can create ( or edit) any page to include following module-line(s):
[[module Pages preview="true" details="true" category="en" ]]
Notes:
Category="en" for the English pages of this wiki. Omitting a category is equivalent to category="_default" for the "standard" pages (there are other categories available on the site manager/permissions menu) ;
preview=true includes the first lines of the text;
details=true includes the last Editor, revision number and update date/time.
You will get some lists like this one (real time , means the list is from now, this moment !):
| Add Another Language | BerBuz | (rev. 9) | 1208898371|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Administration | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 12) | 1186933517|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Advanced Editing | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 6) | 1217937314|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Advanced Site Management | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 1) | 1196255391|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Advanced Wikidot Usage | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 2) | 1196259032|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Basic Editing | gerdami | (rev. 3) | 1193906466|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Block Anonymous Users And Wikidot Members | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 24) | 1196257924|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Center an Image in a Div | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 24) | 1197449747|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Colored Text | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 9) | 1196257216|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Contact | gerdami | (rev. 2) | 1196423523|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Content | Anonymous (202.88.234.x) | (rev. 10) | 1197884010|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Content 2 | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 24) | 1190533956|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Content 3 | hartnell | (rev. 11) | 1191441195|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Content Control | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 2) | 1196258822|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Create An Account | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 31) | 1196256548|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Delete A Wiki | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 10) | 1196258199|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Editing | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 24) | 1185901767|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Editing-advanced-techniques | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 6) | 1185962508|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Editing FAQ | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 10) | 1217866878|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Editing For Beginners | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 2) | 1196257194|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Edit Your Profile | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 20) | 1196256617|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Find A Page | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 8) | 1196256510|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| First Steps On A New Wiki | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 6) | 1196256964|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Forum Option Buttons | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 8) | 1196256740|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Getting Started | hartnell | (rev. 19) | 1191301575|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Glossary | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 21) | 1196258466|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Google Analytics | whatifitsnot | (rev. 6) | 1200789013|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| How To Edit Pages | gerdami | (rev. 6) | 1198271771|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Info Box | David Drascic | (rev. 9) | 1210968369|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Introduction | achille | (rev. 6) | 1198837480|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Introduction to Divs | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 6) | 1196257749|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Introduction To Images | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 6) | 1196256842|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Join a Wiki | Anonymous (134.146.9.x) | (rev. 10) | 1206721984|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Keyboard Shortcuts | gerdami | (rev. 19) | 1209737495|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Known Issues | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 18) | 1196258431|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Links | gerdami | (rev. 1) | 1202990988|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Link to a Wiki Page | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 11) | 1217746264|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| List en:pages | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 4) | 1203953036|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Login At Wikidot | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 17) | 1196256572|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Logout From Wikidot | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 10) | 1196256598|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Magic Language Navigation | Anonymous (80.236.209.x) | (rev. 17) | 1199024451|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Module Flickrgallery | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 3) | 1218901973|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Modules Administrierung | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 2) | 1217938186|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Modules: All | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 3) | 1217937657|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Modules Changements | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 1) | 1217938387|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Modules Forum | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 1) | 1217938687|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Modules Pages | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 1) | 1218902324|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Multi-Columns | achille | (rev. 18) | 1198919433|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| NewPageNameHerePlease | Phil Chett | (rev. 2) | 1185911655|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Pagecalendar | gerdami | (new) | 1217762070|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Page Option Buttons | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 7) | 1196256715|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Page Tags | Phil Chett | (rev. 2) | 1185911720|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Page Title - How to edit? | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 19) | 1196256795|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Private Messaging | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 8) | 1218736499|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Problems with Divs | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 9) | 1196257780|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Public Or Private | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 12) | 1196256985|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Restore A Wiki | BerBuz | (rev. 11) | 1208366156|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Sandbox | gerdami | (rev. 4) | 1186316338|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Site Creation For Beginners | achille | (rev. 4) | 1199713554|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Site Manager | achille | (rev. 98) | 1200227531|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Site Map | chriscullen_uk | (rev. 7) | 1186095129|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Site Promotion | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 1) | 1196255673|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Site Structure comparisons | Anonymous (89.97.35.x) | (rev. 33) | 1198487839|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Start a New Page | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 12) | 1196256769|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Start A Wiki | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 18) | 1196256944|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Start Glossary (en) | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 3) | 1203948168|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Statcounter | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 5) | 1196258271|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Table Layout | smsalgebra | (rev. 4) | 1203860623|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Tagcloud | Phil Chett | (rev. 1) | 1185912084|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Templates | gerdami | (rev. 24) | 1207738221|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| The Editor | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 56) | 1196256696|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Translations | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 14) | 1196258351|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Upload an Image | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 14) | 1197215944|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| User And Community Control | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 1) | 1196255499|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Welcome! | ferdi-m | (rev. 32) | 1221036698|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| What Is A License ? | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 18) | 1217832180|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| What Is A Wiki Site | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 3) | 1196256431|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Wikidot For Beginners | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 3) | 1198853010|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Wikidot For Beginners Print | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 14) | 1198768986|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
| Wiki Syntax | Helmuti_pdorf | (rev. 11) | 1218901389|%e %b %Y - %H:%M|agohover |
Create-An-Account
This page describes how you can create an account on wikidot.com.
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1. Create account button
If you have not yet created an account on Wikidot.com you need to use the link-button Create_account_ at the right-top of your wikidot screen. Here is what it looks like:
2. Create account
When you click on this button-link, the following frame appears:
Click on next and the "Create Account" window opens. Here you will need to fill in some important details:
- a good unique user-id (your "screen name", unique inside the wikidot.com network).
- a valid mail-adress where the system can send the acknowledgment (this email requires a response from you for security purposes).
- a decision on which language you prefer to use (right now, the choices are English or Polish). This choice only affects the internal pages within the wikis you create.
- a good password for security.
- a repeat of this good password
- and good eyes to answer a security question to protect the wikidot system from evvvvvil robots.
Finally, you have to confirm that you have read and aggree to the Terms of Service of wikidot.com.
3. Verification of Your Email-adress
After click on next You will get following screen asking for the verification code sent to you by email.:
Key in this code from the email you got (it takes about five minutes to get sent to you) which should look like this:
Hi Helmuti_pdorf!
You are receiving this email in order to confirm your email address
which is
required for successfull wikidot.com account creation.
Please copy the key below to a proper form in your browser:
verification code: xyz….abc123
_
Best regards - the wikidot.com team
If you have NOT attempted to create an account at any of the
wikidot.com
sites please ignore this email - it might have been sent because
someone _
mistyped his/her own email address. If you however suspect any abuse,
please contact wikidot.com staff at http://www.wikidot.com or send
an email to moc.todikiw|troppus#moc.todikiw|troppus.
4. my_account
Congratulations! You now have a wikidot account. Now you should see the "your account" buttons at the right-top of the wikidot screen changes to a personal account_menu:
An important reminder:
- Your my account menu button leads you to your personal Account settings; it is a good idea to set up those settings right off. Just follow the link!
- The little square box to the right of your account name ("screen name") up in the right hand corner of the screen is a pull-down/"hidden" menu where you can logout from wikidot.com: Logout from Wikidot
Login-At-Wikidot
This document descibes how You can login onto wikidot itself.
This is only the step into the "overall" community, not an entry in on specific site. Many wikis are public and you need not to be logged in to read, but sometimes a login is neccessary to collaborate with other members on a wiki site. And some wiki-sites are private and restricted to allowed users only. Than You have to be logged in anyway.
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1. Login button
The login (button-link) You will find on the right top of Your wikidot screen. Looks like this image:
2. Create account
If You have not yet created an account on Wikidot.com You should use now the Link-button Create_account_. You need:
- a good unique User-id ( unique inside the wikidot.com network ) and
- a valid mail-adress where the system can send to You the acknowledgment awaiting a feedback from yourself for security only.
- a decision which language You prefer for your own internal pages of wikidot ( now english or polish)
- a good password for Your on security
- a repeat of this good password
- and good eyes to answer a security question to prevent the wikidot system from robots.
At last Yuo have to confirm that You have read and aggree the Terms of Service of wikidot.com.
3. First Login
If You have created an account on wikidot.com then You can make login on (the whole !) wikidot-system:
with Your first click on this Link this Login frame will open and ask for Your mail adress ( key in the same as in your account!) and Your password:
Notes to the check-boxes:
Do not timeout my session does exact what it says: if not checked on Your login disappears after some time. This is a security option not to let You be logged in on a public PC after Your leave. Be careful to switch this on!
Bind session to my IP let the system remember your IP adress.
Notes to the litle Link-buttons at the bottom:
forgot Your password? let the system help You by sending (to Your mailadress) …
no account yet? leads You to the create account step.
4. my_account
After Login the right-top of Your wikidot screen changes to the personal account_menu:
An important reminder:
- at this location You have now Your my account menu button which leads You to Your personal Account settings. And
- behind the little square right from the menu is the personal pull-down menu "hidden" where You can make logout from wikidot.com: Logout from Wikidot
If You made Your login the first time think about the view other user should have from You and edit-your-profile. On the other hand: it is not neccessary for wikidot and its forum. Whatever You wnat to give personal details away…
5. Second Login
If You make login the second time the system believes You are the same as before and ask You only for the password:
If You are NOT the same user as before than You can use the little button-link under the password entry-gadget: (login_as_a_different_user)
Logout-From-Wikidot
This document explains how to logout / logoff from Wikidot.com and shows a little short-hand menu hidden at a little icon right from your "my_account" link at the top right side of the page.
If You are logged in with Your User Id You will find at the top right side (right from the page link "my_acount") a little icon (normally a little DownArrow, but in Internet Explorer 7 it is a little button);
if You click on this icon a small pull-down menu will open with some short-hand and at the end the "logout" link:
If You want You can logoff / logout with this link and can leave the WIKIDOT.page.listeners ….
I for my own have not seen this little menu-icon for a long time - and made no logout therefore.. :)
Text ( and images ) derived from: http://community.wikidot.com/howto:logout-from-wikidot
text and images from gerdami
Edit-Your-Profile