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.

Everyone

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.

Page de personne

Les pages de personnes répertorient toute les autres personnes que l'on pourraient vouloir documenter, sans qu'ils/elles aient nécessairement leur compte d'utilisateur dans le wiki. On y retrouve donc des informations de contact de cette personne, ainsi que les rôles joués par cette personne dans le cadre du wiki. Il est à noter que les utilisateurs du wiki devraient avoir leur page de personne, comme il est tout aussi pertinent d'avoir leur information de contact. Afin d'apprendre à nous connaître et connaître les personnes impliquées dans le mouvement, il se peut que votre page personne soit déjà crée. Vous pouvez trouver cette liste par le menu de gauche, à la page Personnes. Si vous y êtes déjà, vous êtes invités à corriger d'éventuelles erreurs et à mettre vos coordonnées (professionnelles) à jour.

Liens Utiles

Liens internes

Liens externes

Aide Mediawiki (en anglais)
Manuel de l'usager Semantic Mediawiki (en anglais)
Aide à l'utilisation du thème installé Tweeki (en anglais)
Aide à l'utilisation de Bootstrap (en anglais)

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