Date:         Thu, 1 Nov 2007 21:33:12 -0700
Reply-To:     Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon Wiki Haaaalp????? (was Re: VanagonWiki.net up,
              and running(NEEDS CONTENT))
Comments: To: BA <oddstray@ODDSTRAY.COM>
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Hi,

Don't worry about the URLs -- that's www stuff. This is wiki, an alternate
universe. Do this:

go to Vanagonwiki.net and log in (if you haven't already created a user
account it will ask you to do so) then return to the main Vanagon Wiki
page as before.

Then click on Tech Pages organized by Subject > Westy-Specific

Click "edit" at the top of the page.

Insert a new line under "Skylight Repairs" and add ""Westy Curtain
Patterns" (keep things alphabetical).

Highlight "Westy Curtain Patterns" and click the Link button on the
toolbar (looks like an earth with a bit of chain in front of it).

A dialog box will open. In the "Link" window you may see something already
filled in, don't worry about that -- it's inherited from the previous
link, delete that text and type, "Westy Curtain Patterns" and click OK.
This will return you back to editing the page.

Click "Save Page" at the bottom and you'll see "Westy Curtain Patterns"
has been added to the list of subjects. Click it and you will be taken to
a new, blank page in which you can create your instructions.

I'm looking forward to seeing them, I need to make new curtains.

At some point you may want to add image files. Easiest to add .jpgs, .pngs
or .gifs. Starts by Uploading the file, then you can use the Insert/Edit
Image button on the toolbar.

URLs aren't used in wikitext, and html isn't used either. Wikis handle
their own links and pointers.
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR



On 11/1/2007 8:56 PM BA wrote:

> So, OK ...
>
> I want to insert a page which will ultimately provide sewing patterns
> for '87 Vanagaon Westfalia curtains.  Right now they provide maybe
> enough information that a new owner can sort through the pile of
> curtains and determne which ones belong where.
>
>
> I went to:
>
> http://www.vanagonwiki.net
>
> and it re-directed me to:
>
> http://www.vanagonwiki.net/index.php/VanagonWiki
>
>
> So far, so good.  The "non-technical" pages seem like social-type
> pages.  So I go to "Tech Pages organized by Subject ".
>
> Then I click on the link whose title is "Westy-Specific".  But I wind
> up on a page whose URL is
> http://www.vanagonwiki.net/index.php/Westy_Mods
>
> Does this not violate wiki standards?  Since I clicked on a link whose
> text was "Westy-Specific" then I expected to wind up on a page whose
> URL was
> http://www.vanagonwiki.net/index.php/Westy-Specific
>
> Anyway.  I do not want to add curtain information to a page named
> "Westy_Mods" since this is not a mod.  How do I create a page with the
> URL:
>
> http://www.vanagonwiki.net/index.php/Westy-Specific/Westy_curtains
>
>
> ???
> Inquiring minds want to know ...
>
> B&S
> '87 Westy 'Esmerelda Blanc'
> SoCal