This page lists handy tips on creating and editing wiki pages.

Tips

• your work here doesn't have to look pretty (we have volunteers who periodically clean for formatting and style). Just post your ideas, make new wikipages, put links to the wikipages, etc.
• Choose a short, relevant title.
• The first few lines of each page should explain what the page is (e.g. see the top of this page)
• use table of contents by clicking 'insert plugin'... "pbwiki magic"... table of contents... 3 deep; then highlight the desired headers and click format... "header 2" or for a subheader "header 3" ("header 1" tends to be too big and ugly).  Owing to a pbwiki bug, you have to highlight text from right to left to get headers to work out properly (not left to right). 
• link back to other pages within the wiki liberally. 
• you can download the wiki to view it offline at: https://wiki.nyayahealth.org/settings/backup

Private vs. Public Pages

The default security setting for this wiki is "public".  For public pages, you do not have to change anything when you create the page.

We do not use private wiki pages since they are inefficient.   For any pages that have private content, such as passwords, email addresses, or contact information, please put them within our google apps spreadsheets or docs and create a link to the webpage.  These google apps spreadsheets should be shared across our domain to allow easy and efficient login. 

Folders

For the most part, pages do not need to be organized into folders.  The only exception to this is the INGO Operations folder.  

Sandbox Pages

Sandbox pages are ideas-generating pages on which we brainstorm.  They are created like any other page, but with the Sandbox_ZZZ in the title.  They  should be linked to the corresponding formal page, and the formal pages should be updated.  Sandbox pages allows us to organize our creativity without overwhelming the formal pages for content. 

For example: BloggingGuidelines is the formal page for the Sandbox_Blog

Inviting New Members

Go to https://wiki.nyayahealth.org/settings/users.  Add the user.  If you need to add a core member who should have administrator prilviledges and be able to see ALL hidden private pages, select "user settings" and add through that portal.  If you want a writer to have access to only one of the private pages, click on "page security" of that page and add that user.

Alternatively, on the right-hand side of any page, go to "share this wiki" and add the email address of the person you would like to add as a writer. 

Finally, tell the person: "i have invited you to the wiki via your email address.  please create an account with your email address at wiki.nyayahealth.org by clicking on "create account" on the upper right hand corner.  please see http://wiki.nyayahealth.org/WikiTips for some quick pointers on how to get started."