Important Guidelines
Privacy and security. Anything you write on a wiki page may be visible on the internet. There are ways to protect information on the wiki using Access Control Lists. Essentially, you add at the top of the page lines which say #acl JoeBloggs:read,write magd1561:read,write,admin All: and this allows user JoeBloggs to read and write, magd1561 to do the same plus change access control on this page, and the group "All" (everyone else) is denied access.
Be aware that the administrator of the site can read any page on the wiki.Sentitive information. Needless to say, it is inadvisable to put genuinely sensitive information on a wiki page, or to post personal information and/or derogatory comments. This is because a wiki is by nature a public tool. Until you add an Access Control List to your page, anyone can see it and they can also see the version history of the page (that is, derogatory comments that have been deleted are still accessible in previous versions). If you are about to post information that you would not be willing to say in public, think again.
Advice to get the most out of the wiki
- Copy other people's formatting techniques. You can even copy their entire page and substitute your own information. A useful tool for this is the "Raw Text" action which allows you to see what the page looked like while being edited.
It's sometimes interesting to see who's been editing pages recently: for any particular page, click on the "Info" button in the page menu, but if you want to see which pages have been changed most recently and by whom, visit RecentChanges.
Take a look at OrphanedPages to see which pages are not linked from anywhere (this could happen if you create a page but don't refer to it on any other pages).
- Don't worry about the formatting too much; make sure the information is good. Someone will often come along and tidy up the page for you.