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What is a wiki?

At its most basic, a wiki is a web site that is easily modified by its readers/visitors/users. It runs on software that allows pages to be edited in a simple format, rather than mess about with HTML. The software we're using here is called [UseModWiki].

(What is a wiki? Here are some definitions courtesy [UseMod] and [Wikipedia]. Wikipedia is a huge open-content encyclopedia, based on the wiki model and completely user-contributed.)

Have a look around the site. Notice how everything's interlinked. Also note the "Edit" link in red at the bottom of almost every page. It's for real. Anyone can edit the pages here. (See the Editing Guide for more about how to do this.)

Revision history: The wiki also keeps track of every edit made to a page, which is useful for tracking down who wrote something, or reverting to an older version in the case of an editing error (it's also how 'vandalism' is handled on wikis). At the bottom of every editable page, the wiki reports the time and author of the most recent edit. The "(diff)" link will highlight the most recent changes on the page. To go back further in a page's history, click the "View other revisions" link.

The Recent Changes page shows a list of all pages that have been edited in the past month.

Under Preferences (visible when you've logged in), you can change how many of the above pages are displayed.

About the Puzzlebox Wiki

This is a repository of information about stories, characters, places and ideas surrounding Puzzlebox MUCK.

A few somewhat-standard conventions that have arisen since we started: (we really don't know what we're doing; we're making it up as we go along)


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