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=Editing the VTLUUG Wiki=
 
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Everyone is invited improve the VTLUUG Wiki through additions and edits. The wiki is powered by [[w:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]], the same code that [[w:Main_Page|Wikipedia]] runs on. For an introduction to editing MediaWiki pages, see [[w:How to edit a page|Wikipedia's editing instructions]]. While this and other pages may list some guidelines and rules, if a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining the VTLUUG Wiki, ignore it.
 
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==Editing Suggestions==
 
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* [[w:Wikipedia:Be bold|Be bold]]
 
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* Provide a [[tl;dr]] summary.
 
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* Upload pretty screenshots in [[:Category:Howtos|howto articles]].
 
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* Tackle large coverage expansion goals incrementally.
 
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==Conventions==
 
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* "at Virginia Tech" is an assumed suffix for every title. You can add a redirect if you'd like, but the shorter name should be the main article.
 
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* In general, follow [[w:Wikipedia:Naming conventions|Wikipedia's naming conventions]].
 
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* Follow [http://www.cmu.edu/styleguide/capitalization.html Carnegie Mellon's capitalization guidelines] for university-related capitalization.
 
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=Licensing=
 
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Please note that all contributions to the VTLUUG Wiki are considered to be released under a [[w:Creative Commons|Creative Commons]] [[VTLUUG Wiki:License|Attribution-Share Alike license]]. Do not submit copyrighted work without permission. This includes copying and pasting Knowledgebase articles. Copying from appropriate [[copyleft]] sources such as Wikipedia with proper attribution is acceptable, but consider whether improving the original content and linking there via an interwiki or external link is more appropriate.
 
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If you do not want your writing to undergo the merciless collaborative editing of a wiki or be redistributed at will, then do not submit your work to the VTLUUG Wiki.
 
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=Non-Standard Features=
 
=Non-Standard Features=
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Currently, the VTLUUG Wiki has two plugins installed: [[mw:Extension:ReCAPTCHA|ReCAPTCHA]] and [[mw:Extension:SlippyMap|SlippyMap]]. See [[Special:Version]] for exact versions. Also, the [[w:interwiki|interwiki]] links table has been tweaked. Currently, we support the interwiki links below. The <code>$1</code> will be replaced with intended page name. See the source of this section by clicking the <code>Edit</code> link to the right for several examples.
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Currently, the VTLUUG Wiki has four plugins installed: [http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/CanonicalHref/CanonicalHref.php Canonical Href], [[mw:Extension:Cite|Cite]], [[mw:Extension:ReCAPTCHA|ReCAPTCHA]] and [[mw:Extension:SlippyMap|SlippyMap]]. See [[Special:Version]] for exact versions. Also, the [[w:interwiki|interwiki]] links table has been tweaked. Currently, we support the interwiki links below. The <code>$1</code> will be replaced with intended page name. See the source of this section by clicking the <code>Edit</code> link to the right for several examples.
  
 
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Revision as of 23:49, 7 December 2009

Non-Standard Features

Currently, the VTLUUG Wiki has four plugins installed: Canonical Href, Cite, ReCAPTCHA and SlippyMap. See Special:Version for exact versions. Also, the interwiki links table has been tweaked. Currently, we support the interwiki links below. The $1 will be replaced with intended page name. See the source of this section by clicking the Edit link to the right for several examples.

com http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/$1
fc http://vt.freeculture.org/wiki/$1
gw http://gentoo-wiki.com/$1
jarg http://sunir.org/apps/meta.pl?wiki=JargonFile&redi...
lw http://linuxwiki.de/$1
moz http://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php/$1
mw http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/$1
oc http://www.opencircuits.com/$1
osm http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/$1
rfc http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc$1.txt
sf http://sourceforge.net/$1
ud http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=$1
w http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1
wb http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/$1
wh http://www.wikihow.com/$1