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Technical guidelines

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To encourage as wide a participation as possible we have tried to make this site as easy to navigate and use as we could. But if anyone has any suggestions as to how we could make it still easier, please contact us at the address shown in the left hand column.


A Million Penguins uses the mediawiki engine, which is the wiki format that powers wikipedia. Anyone who has edited entries on wikipedia should find the interface familiar. There are useful articles on editing here and particularly here.


Most browsers will display a simple wysiwyg interface (the blue buttons) at the top of the screen and in general you should use these to add formating and links. We have disabled the facilities to insert pictures or media files for copyright reasons and to preserve the integrity of the narrative. One thing that it is vital to note is that if you navigate away from a page without saving, your changes will be lost.

  • What do the various links and buttons do?

Left hand sidebar

  • 'The Novel' - takes you back to the front page
  • 'About the Project' - a description of this exercise and credits
  • 'Pre-Launch discussion' - What we talked about when we were setting the wiki up (this was a learning experience for all of us ;-)
  • 'The Blog' - this is where Penguin editor Jon Elek will write his regular reading reports and we will also use the blog for further news and announcements
  • 'Current Events' - any major announcements will go here
  • 'Recent Changes' - tracks changes across the wiki


  • 'Technical Guidelines' - what you are reading now
  • 'Ethical Guidelines' - what sort of behaviour will make this wikinovel work
  • 'Terms and Conditions' - these are the terms and conditions for particpating in this project


DMU


  • 'MA in Creative Writing and New Media' - a link to the course prospectus
  • 'DMU Team' - the Faculty and students on the MA Course


Resources

Some Links to general Penguin sites


When you are logged into the wiki you will see the following links at the top of the page;

  • 'Your username' - you can edit and personalise this page
  • 'my talk' - you can use this page to discuss matters outside the main discussion areas of the wikinovel - other people can edit and comment and you will be alerted to any changes to this page.
  • 'my preferences' - edit how the wiki looks for you and works for you here.
  • 'my watchlist' - use this to keep an eye on changes to the wikinovel or any particular pages you wish to monitor
  • 'my contributions' - see all changes you have made to the wikinovel here
  • 'log out' - please log out at the end of every session if you are on a shared computer


Tabbed Windows

Please note that these tabs refer to the main page you are currently viewing - eg clicking on 'discussion' now will take you to the discussion page for the technical guidelines

  • 'main page' - the main page in a particular section
  • 'discussion' - the discussion for that page
  • 'edit' - click here to edit this page
  • 'history' - see the changes that have been made to the page.
  • 'move' - Please see the notes on this page and avoid using unless absolutely necessary. This is a drastic change.
  • 'Watch' - automatically adds the main page in that section to your watchlist
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