Documentation for curating this wiki for Growing the Commons

There is a playground where you can try all of the skills below. Try it!

Don't worry if you don't understand all of this below, we will try to help you!

To manage a knowledge resource such as this, we need a variety of knowledge, skills and experience, which may not come all together in the same person. We need:

• knowledgeable and experienced people, who have deep knowledge of the topic, and its relevance to the Commons;
• people who can put this knowledge into a form that is easy to understand by non-specialists;
• more technical people who are able to get this knowledge into the right form for this wiki.

If someone has all three, that's wonderful! But it's not necessary. We would like teams of curators to work together collaboratively, to cover all three points in whatever way is possible. We hope that these people, with their different skills, will enjoy and benefit from working together.

• getting an account
• navigating the site
• watch pages
• editing, saving & reverting

These are the skills which we would like as many curators as possible to have.

However, you can still be a curator without going through this, if someone else is willing to do the technical work for you. We can't say anything general about the knowledge and experience of the topic itself — that's up to you! But we can say something about the skills needed to work with this wiki, and this is what is set out below.

• different editing techniques
• page section headings
• basic text formatting
• lists
• links
• linebreaks and spaces
• inserting images
• emojis and special characters

These skills are enough for most page editing, and we hope that there will be a good number overall of people willing to master these skills. Age is not a barrier, but we expect that more younger people will be able and willing to get into this.

• Uploading images
• Namespaces in DokuWiki
• Tables
• WRAP
• MediaWiki and DokuWiki
• Signing comments
• Concept pages
• Starting a new topic

When you look at a page you have edited, sometimes it looks wrong. Tell us when you come across a problem, and we will list it here with some kind of solution. If not a FAQ, it will at least be a “Sometime Asked Questions”…

• templates & page structure
• creating and deleting pages

• The modified and very dense syntax page, edited to show what actually works here. The point of the pages above is to thin out and give much more explanation, to make it easier for everyone.
• our very short "cheatsheet" for using some key features (thanks, Katja!)
• DokuWiki's own syntax page (which doesn't cover the Markdown plugin and its effects)
• DokuWiki's current whole manual