Getting Started

If you're new to Wikis, the basics you need to know about using the wiki are:

A Wiki is a web site which can be collaboratively edited by all users. See Wikipedia for a complete introduction.
Feel free to click around this Penguin Day wiki and get used to things
You can edit any page, and are strongly encouraged to do so!
- You will need to create an account, which you can do by clicking on "create account" in the upper right corner of any page
To edit a page, click on the "Edit" link near the top of the page.
- When you are editing a page, the current content of that page is displayed as editable text. You can make modifications, and then click either the Show Preview button, to simply preview how the edited page will look, or click the Save page button, to actually save your edits so that others may view them.
To create hyperlinks to other pages in the wiki you bracket the desired link term in square brackets.
- To make "Another Page" be a link to a new page associated with that term, put double square brackets around it while editing the current page content
- Let's say you want to create a page about "Your OpenOffice.org Example". Enter the following:

[ [ Your OpenOffice.org Example ] ]

- Save the page
- The saved page will display the text as a link, like Your OpenOffice.org Example. Click on the link to edit the page to which the term is now linked.
Please see the MediaWiki User's Guide for complete usage and configuration help.