EditingTeamPages

Accounts

Who can have an account?

Team Leaders, and optionally a team member they designate.

How do I get an account?

Send an email to net@portland.gov.

Moderation

Your initial changes will be reviewed by a moderator. That means pending edits will be invisible.

As you get the hang of it, future edits will take place immediately.

Getting Started

WikiNET is a wiki, which is a collaboratively edited website. Each edit to a page is recorded as a separate change, resulting in a history of what the page looked like in the past and which user made which changes to it.

(Wikipedia is the most famous example of a wiki, but there are important differences here, explained below.)

Your First Edit

1. Log in with your account.
2. Click Edit on your team page.
3. Update the schools listed for your neighborhood:

   1. 

      Double-click the yellow "Neighborhood" box on the right side of the page.

   2. 

      Check the "Schools" checkbox on the left side of the dialog.

   3. 

      Find the "Schools" content section in the center of the dialog. Add schools you know of, one per line, with an asterisk ("*") at the beginning of the line.

   4. 

      Click the Apply Changes button in the top right corner.

4. Click the Save page... button.
5. Provide a summary of your changes or rationale. For example, "Update school list".

Editing

Editors

There are two editors available:

• The visual (WYSIWYG) editor, entered via the Edit and Create buttons.
• The wikitext (markup) editor, entered via the Edit source and Create source buttons.

The visual editor is most useful for new users, but even users comfortable with markup will find its guidance useful for e.g. providing template parameters. You can choose either, and even switch between them in the same editing session.

Templates

There are a number of templates useful for NET Team pages.

Every team page should use these templates. They provide a consistent sidebar with basic stats, and group your pages into categories for navigation:

• Template:Team
• Template:Neighborhood

Other templates do things like make links pretty. Please use them for more appealing team pages:

• Template:EmailLink
• Template:GoogleDocLink
• Template:FacebookLink
• Template:GroupsLink
• Template:InstagramLink
• Template:SignalLink

How to get help

• Start at https://mediawiki.org. Keep in mind that advanced MediaWiki features may require extensions that are not installed here.
• To reach administration team of this site, send an email to net@portland.gov.

Policies

Can other NET members edit my team's page?

Yes, and these contributions should be welcomed.

1. Watch your team's page so you receive notifications when it's changed.
2. If someone else's change needs improvement, improve it.
3. To discuss changes and work out differences of opinion, click on the user's Talk page and leave a comment.
4. If a change truly needs to be removed, use the View history button to revert it.
5. If there is a disagreement that can't be resolved, send an email to net@portland.gov for help.

Can I upload photos or team documents?

Fine for team pages:

• A few individual photos (e.g. team members in action)
• Neighborhood maps

Host these elsewhere:

• Photo albums (e.g. team exercises)
• Meeting minutes
• Operations Plans
• Internal team documents (e.g. spreadsheets, planning documents)
• Outreach materials

Link to these from your team pages.

Copyright

Copyright law can be nuanced, but as a general rule, please do not add text which you didn't write or files you didn't create.

Your contributions to this wiki are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.

What role do city employees have here?

They are the exclusive editors of the site content they have created.