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This is a Wiki page dedicated to our Wiki explaining how to edit the wiki including this wiki page.

How to start editing the Wiki

Create an account.
Create a user page with contact info for yourself if you're comfortable sharing it. It does not have to have personally identifying info, pseudonyms or no contact info is fine if you want to remain private.
Volunteer to help maintain some part of Noisebridge by editing wiki pages.
Join the Documentation working group to get more involved in improving Noisebridge docs including Wiki and Signage.

You can edit most any page by clicking Edit.
You can figure out who else is recently maintaining a page by clicking 'View history.
Formatting page of mediawiki will tell you how to compose.
Some pages are protected so only logged in users or admins can edit them.
You should create an account and summarize your edits whenever possible to make collab with other editors work better.

Your best bet with wikis is always to reuse existing code in order to write better pages.

See this discussion on pruning and improving our wiki pages.
Integrate orphaned pages into the menu system by putting the appropriate { { guildmenutemplate } } at the top.
- Edit the menu you added it under with a link to it, especially if it is currently relevant or in a historical menu category like Lore.
- If it is historic, edit the main page in the submenu category with links to it under a Historic header at the bottom of the page instead of a menu link.
Mark outdated pages with the { { historic } }(no spaces between curly braces) template.
Mark parts of Noisebridge not fully constructed as { { construction } }
Create new categories and embed their tags in a template with a visible box like those.

Special:Version tells you all about how the site is setup, including installed extensions.

Oauth will allow us to integrate login from this wiki to our Discourse instance using wikimedia-auth plugin and to https://projects.noisebridge.info with this.
StopForumSpam extension for helping limit new user registration spam.
Define how to delete users with no contributions.

We use a rainbow of pastel hues for boxes:

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+# [[Special:CreateAccount|Create an account]].
+# Create a user page with contact info for yourself if you're comfortable sharing it. It does not have to have personally identifying info, pseudonyms or no contact info is fine if you want to remain private.
+# [[Volunteer]] to help maintain some part of Noisebridge by editing wiki pages.
+# Join the [[Documentation]] working group to get more involved in improving Noisebridge docs including [[Wiki]] and [[Signage]].
 == Important Editing Links==