New Feature - Scroll Saw Wiki

[Travis]

I'm excited to announce the newest feature added to Scroll Saw Village. Introducing Scroll Saw Wiki. Scroll Saw Wiki is a online reference that anybody can edit!

 

Scroll Saw Wiki runs on the same powerful software as Wikipedia. Anybody can edit articles to correct misinformation, add new information, or just to correct spelling errors. If you're looking for something specific and there isn't an article about it. Create it! This will be a great place to hold information on equipment, scroll saw manufacturers, cutting techniques, different types of scroll sawing, types of wood, books, magazines, websites, blogs... You name it. If it has anything to do with scroll sawing, let's have it included in the wiki!

 

Editing and creating articles is easy to do. If the link is blue, there is an article already written. Any written article can be edited by anybody just by clicking Edit. If the link is red, there hasn't been an article written, so feel free to write the article. You can do a search for a term and if it comes up empty, you're allowed to create that article! Its that easy! And don't be concerned with writing a brilliant article. Just write it and if it needs to be edited, someone will come along eventually and fill in the holes, fix grammar or whatever! If you need help, there's some help pages on the wiki. I've also created a Wiki Talk forum in the Help & Feedback section that you can ask questions.

 

Anyway, have fun with our new feature. Hopefully together, we can create an awesome scroll saw reference that will benefit all scrollers!

[Christina]

Way cool Travis! This ought to be loads of fun for everyone! Thanks.............you always have the best ideas!

Christina

[blame]

i'm still working on the wood species i'm now done with the B's then i will go back thru and add pictures of the leaves, bark and dimensioned lumber as i get time

 

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[Travis]

I just installed a new button to the compose window of the forums. Now you have basic wiki-linking ability. To link to a wiki article, all you need is the wiki page name. Then you just put it between the wiki markup. You can see an example below.

 

[wiki]Scroll Saw Village[/wiki]

 

will get you: [wiki]Scroll Saw Village[/wiki]

 

Hopefully this will be a fun way to link to articles on the wiki and help direct people to the correct article. Have fun!

[Christina]

Thanks so much Blame...............that is going to be a fantastic resource!!! I love it!

 

Travis, I figured that out finally lol................I added names of different forums that I know of and the links. Took me awhile to figure it out though and get it right.

 

I still haven't figured out how to add a page though. I'm not sure what I would put on that page yet...........but I'm hoping to come up with something to contribute. Thanks!

 

I'm also hoping that some of the more experienced scrollers will add some tips and techniques for beginners. I think that would be another awesome resource.

 

Also, an article on different finishes and what to use them on and why would be a great article. Maybe different backer ideas, etc...

Christina

[Travis]

I'm glad you're enjoying it. Wikis are really easy to do. It looks intimidating at first, but once you realize its only text on a page, you'll be hooked. Making pages are pretty easy. If the link is red, click it and it will create the page for you. If you do a search for a page and nothing shows up, you'll see red link that says "create this page". Then its just a matter of creating the page. Go nuts! The more info we can throw out to our fellow scrollers, the better.

[blame]

while editing an existing page use [[page title]] to create a new link to your new page once you save the page you can then click on the new link and it will take to the edit page

 

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[Christina]

Cool! Thanks Travis and Blame. I don't know what I can come up with lol............but surely I can find something to do!

Christina