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This platform

This platform is a so called wiki: it is a collection of pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The collaborative Encyclopaedia wikipediais one of the best-known wikis. Lots of things you find in Wikipedia and other Mediawiki wiki's are applicable here as well.

For a short introduction have a look at this 3 minute film on Wiki's. Just click the play button!

This dynamic platform will give you information on the Management Game. It is used for you, the players of the Game, but it also provides information to the staff and coaches on how all of you have decided to continue the park you are managing and it contains a secured section for your decisions and results as well.

You can always have a look using the tab edit to see just how pages etc. are made. Try to hold on to the lay-out used in the pages already there. Using copy paste (for layout purposes) is encouraged! Trial & error are the best way to learn to work in a wiki. Just copy the text you find under edit paste it into another page and change the content (names of pictures, texts etc.). If you copy content: be sure to mention the source and mind the copyrights! It is never allowed to copy large pieces of texts (without references) of course!

Rights

There are different levels of rights depending on who you are: this is effectuated by your login. So depending on your login you can

• see different things

• do different things (edit rights)

Apart from this structure there are also certain complete pages protected (no edit possible at all) as you can see by the tab 'unprotect' which means at this moment this pages is protected (like this one). And even in an article you can edit some sections mights be protected.

Lemma

The basic principal of a wiki are the so called Lemma: the pages (or maybe topics). Any contribution can be done by using edit in the tab above the page. This only works (and is visible) if you do have the proper rights to do so. You basically can just type in text (or paste it in without lay-out) with copy past from Word (without lay-out!) etc.

The software works with Wiki-code, which accepts most HTML and XML codes. Be sure to use the button save page a lot whilst working!

Basics on Wiki's

A Wiki is a place for storing, upgrading and collecting information, knowledge and sometimes just data.

• You adjust and improve an existing page or

• You make a new page yourself.

You can adjust an existing page by using the edit tab above the page. This is only possible if you are logged in and have the rights to do this. Some pages are protected, and depending on who you are you can only see a specific part of this Wiki!

You can just type in your text: the lay-out possibilities in a Wiki are limited with a reason: everything should be lean and mean: the pages should load quickly. As in so many applications you are working in a screen copy of the database. So use the button Save page a lot.

You can also have a look at the results first before you save them with the button Show preview. Remember, nothing is saved yet! As rolling back is very easy most people prefer saving the pages several times as you work in the document..

If you look at the bottom of the edit page, apart from Save Page, Show Preview, Show changes, there is also the possibility to explain to others shortly what you have edited on this page in a short summary. This is NOT a summary of the page but a summary of your changes. So if the page is new: new page will do. If you have only corrected a few typing errors write as summary: corrected typing errors.

If you click on the tab history you can see all the changes with this very short explanation.

Tags

Software running the Wiki's is working on so called tags. So if you want to have anything to be shown bold you use this shows bold in coding '''anything''' . Or this shows bold by HTML code-tag: codes from HTML. These tags are the instructions to the software what to do: wiki code and HTML codes both work. Most of them are words between <> or for instance other signs like'''. It is also possible to just see the tags without having the software doing anything: then use the <nowiki><nowiki> code. Then the instructions will not be done by the software.

Confusing, though is that for instance Flickr uses the word tags to describe the content of a picture. So these tags are something different!

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