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From Programapedia

Contents 1 Getting Started Guide 2 Additional Tip Sheets 3 Programapedia Training 4 Additional Wiki Resources

Getting Started Guide

• Becoming Familiar with Programapedia
• Requesting an Author Account
• Setting My Preferences
• Special Pages
• Adding a Page to Programapedia
  1. Gain consent from presenter before adding page
  2. Search to see if page already exists
  3. Which form do I use?
  4. Fill out and submit form
  5. Add documents and images
  6. Make additional content changes
• Additional Help and Enhancing Programapedia

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the mediawiki software. This User's Guide includes syntax for writing wikitext.

Additional Tip Sheets

• Adding and Editing Images
• Adding New Sub-Categories and Sub-Category Pages
• Wikitext Editing
• Q & A (Frequently Asked and Answered Questions)

Programapedia Training

Online through WIMBA:

Archives of the web-conferencing online Wimba sessions are available to view and listen to the workshops. Follow the links and enter your name in the Name box when entering the archive.

• Introduction to Programapedia - June 16, 2008 PowerPoint Slides
• Basic Programapedia Author Training - June 18, 2008 PowerPoint Slides
• Editing Programapedia Articles and Resources - July 1, 2008 PowerPoint Slides
• Programapedia System Operations - July 2, 2008 PowerPoint Slides

Online through OPAL:

These are the PowerPoint slides from an OPAL presentation. It's a large file and takes a few minutes to load but if you have problems please contact us.

Hands-on training manual for students

• Programapedia Training Manual
• Programapedia Training Manual (Instructor)

Additional Wiki Resources

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list
• Books available for checkout from Prairie Area and Shawnee Library Systems