Help:Summary

Before anything: the wiki attitude
The wiki is a living, evolving and especially non-linear tool. Don't be afraid to bring your contribution by trial and error! The success of this wiki will come through an active participation to the sharing of knowledge.
The more we are, the more we wiki ;)

According to who you are

Whether you are a participant, accomplice, partner or promotor of the Fab Labs Nation projet, thank you for your implication. To start collaborating with others, we invite you to contribute in the following ways, according to the category to which you identify.

Anyone

Add your personal page and keep it up to date.
Add events related to Fab Labs that interest you.
Share this wiki on social medias.
Translate pages using the Special:Translate page.

A Fab Lab coordinator/Fab Manager

Update your Fab Lab`s page.
Make a list of the organisations that are related to your Fab Lab.
Add the list of equipment available in your Fab Lab
Add the list of employees in your Fab Lab
Let us know what you need in your lab

A representative for an organization related to Fab Labs

Update or create your organizations page
Make a list of the other organizations that are related to both you and Fab Labs across Canada
Add a list of employees of your organization that contribute to the Fab Lab world
Add events, past and future, related to Fab Labs

A representative for an event related to Fab Labs

Create and maintain the page dedicated for your event
Add or complete the pages for the organisations implicated in your event
Create the pages for the people implicated in your event
Add other, past and future events related to Fab Labs
Share this wiki on social media

Any person implicated in Fab Labs

Add or complete pages for organisations related to Fab Labs
Add events related to Fab Labs

Starting up

Preference configuration

To access your preferences, click on your username in the top menu and select "Preferences". You'll want to set up a few options here including:

If you want the wiki to refer to you using gender specific pronouns, you can choose between the "he/she edits wiki pages", under the "Internationalization" section
If you want to receive mail when pages you follow are updated, you need to validate your email in the "Email options" section.

2 pages in you name

In your first uses of the wiki, you should learn to understand and use 2 pages: you Person page and you User page.

User page

User pages exist for each person with an account in the wiki. If you click on your name in the top menu and again on your name in the dropdown menu, you will be directed to your user page. If it hasn't been created yet, you can go ahead and click "Create with form" in the top menu and fill out the form.

Aside from helping to keep track of users in the wiki, the user page is the place where you manage your activity in the wiki: your Actions, Suggestions and Projects and their status are listed here. These lists are organised in such a fashion that you can change the status of their elements by clicking on the arraow symbols (↑, → et ↓) to transfer them from one list to another. The progression follows an inverted "U" shape, starting on the bottom left and ending on the bottom right.

You can also use your User page as a "sandbox": a place where you can add code to test the different functionalities such as semantic queries, and where you can take various notes throughout your usage. This is your space, you can have fun with it.

For an example of an amply filled user pagem you can have a look at Utilisateur:Guillaume Coulombe.

Person page

The People pages identify all the people that we would like to store information about, without requiring that they have an account in the wiki. As such, you can find information on how to contact them and what roles they might play in the wiki. Its worth noting that users should also have a Person page as its information is complementary to that found in a User page (rather than redundant). To learn about ourselves and the other people invested in our projects, we might already have created your page. You can find a list of the people we've listed in the wiki by looking at the People page. If you're already there, we invite you to update an complete your info.