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Welcome to the Global Voices Wiki, a place to share and create documents and guides, as well as discuss the shared goals of Global Voices (See the about documents on that page to learn about what/why/who Global Voices is)
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[edit] Categories you should watch and use
Content on the wiki is organized using categories. Use these links to find relevant content, and please add these categories to pages you post.
Category:GV Guides - Documents to help you write for Global Voices and use the site.
Category:GV Policy - Documents outlining the policies and best practices of GV.
Category:Rising Voices - Information related to Rising Voices
Category:Lingua - Documents for the Lingua Project (both help files and collaboration documents)
Category:Screencasts - pages linking to screencast guides.
[edit] Actively Maintained Pages
These are documents that are currently being maintained and SHOULD be accurate. You can take responsibility for a page if you want (if you have a questions about a page here, please contact the maintainer).
Style Guide - maintained by Jeremy Clarke
Lingua Posting Guide - maintainted by Jeremy Clarke
Language Exchange Ideas - maintainted by --David Sasaki 21:38, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
http://feedback.globalvoicesonline.org/ - maintainted by --David Sasaki 21:38, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Blog Posts About Future of GV --David Sasaki 13:45, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
Using GV as an educational resource
[edit] Using The Wiki / HELP!
[edit] Adding New Pages
If you want to create a new page, just go to the url where the article WOULD be and click the edit tab. So, for example, if you want to create a page called 'Using Rss Aggregators' you can just go to this url (just add the title of the post to the end of the normal url but with _'s instead of spaces):
http://globalvoicesonline.org/wiki/article/Using_Rss_Aggregators
When you visit the url you will be able to use the 'edit' button at the top to add content, then just save and the page is ready. You should make sure to create some links to the page so that people can find it though.
[edit] Creating Links
You can create links within a wiki page (like this homepage) to other pages by using the 'internal link' button in the editor or by just entering the name of the article you want to link to in the text inside square brackets. So if you put the following text in your article it would create a link like Using Rss Aggregators :
[[Using Rss Aggregators]]
A great way to create a page is to add a link to it from another page, then follow the link and create the page once you're there.
[edit] Using Wiki Categories
The last thing you need to do to keep the wiki organized is add categories to your pages so that people can find all similar pages. Categories should be standard across many pages, so look for an existing category you could use rather than creating a new one (we should have one 'Guides' category, rathar than 'Guides', 'GV Tutorials', 'GV Help' etc competing for articles).
To add a wiki category to an article, just add text like the following (with the category you want to use) :
[[Category:GV Help]]
That will automatically create a link to the category page at the bottom of the article. Category pages list all articles tagged with that category, so they can be very useful to see if there is related documentation or a similar article.
If you just want to LINK to the category page (like i do above on the homepage) then add a colon before the category link inside the square brackets:
[[:Category:Rising Voices Guides]]
