Registry Topics

[Tony Linde]

Hi Ray,

Any registered member can create new pages in a wiki site. If you edit
any page and add a reference to your new page in the form of a wiki word
(starts with capital letter and has at least one more capital in it -
usually capitalized words strung together, eg IvoaRegistry, IvoaResReg,
RayPlante etc.) wen you save the page you'll see that word with a
question mark after it. Click on the question mark and it'll create the
new page for you then you just need to add the text using the wiki
shorthand or html.

If you're not sure what to do, check out the tutorial, manual and other
stuff referenced from the Twiki page:
  http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/TWiki/WebHome
especially the one-page primers.

To try stuff out, use the Test web:
  http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/Test/WebHome

You'll see some samples there of pages that haven't yet been created
(TestTopic1, TestTopic2 etc - all with question marks after them). Click
on the question mark after one of these to create a new page and then
try doing the tutorial:
  http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiTutorial

As it says, it'll only take 20 minutes or so. It seems strange at first
but is dead simple once you've created a couple of pages. Another way to
get familiar with the wiki style etc is to click Edit on existing pages
and see how the page has been written.

Once you're okay with the wiki, just choose whichever page you want to
have a link to your new page, edit it to include the new page name (as a
wiki word), save it, click on the question mark and there you'll have a
blank page ready to fill.

Hope this helps out. I've copied this to the Registry mailing list as
well in case others are unfamiliar with the wiki.

Cheers,
Tony.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Plante [mailto:rplante at poplar.ncsa.uiuc.edu] 
> Sent: 30 January 2003 15:55
> To: Tony Linde
> Subject: Registry Topics
> 
> 
> Hi Tony,
> 
> I trust your London trip was full of good fortune.  I had a 
> question about 
> the registry wiki site.  Is it possible for users to add 
> topics, or is 
> that restricted to the moderator/administrator?  In any 
> event, would it be 
> appropriate to add a requirements topic?  Or should we 
> combine that with 
> the RegistryUseCases topic?  I'd like to post our 
> requirements document 
> somewhere.
> 
> cheers,
> Ray
> 
>