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".

Your Second Edit

Look up the population for your neighborhood(s) in portlandmaps.com. Update the Neighborhood template(s) as above.

Your Third Edit

Look up stations on the fire station map and update your neighborhood(s).

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

Here is why it is useful:

	Unformatted text	Displays as
	net@portland.gov	net@portland.gov
	[mailto:net@portland.gov net@portland.gov]	net@portland.gov
template:	{{EmailLink|net@portland.gov}}	Email
	[https://www.facebook.com/groups/portlandprepares PortlandPrepares]	PortlandPrepares
template:	{{FacebookLink|groups/portlandprepares|name=PortlandPrepares}}	PortlandPrepares

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. If there is a disagreement that can't be resolved, send an email to net@portland.gov for help.

Can I edit any page on the wiki?

Subject matter experts are responsible for other pages. Team editors should limit their changes to team pages.

Can I upload photos or team documents?

For most files, please upload them separately and link to them from your team pages.

Where to host different types of files:

file type	where to host it
small inline images (e.g. team members in action)	team page
small neighborhood map	team page
Photo albums (e.g. team exercises)	send an email to net@portland.gov for an upload link
Operations plans	NET Team Operations Plans (email to net@portland.gov)
Meeting minutes	3rd-party file hosting (e.g. Google Drive)
Internal team documents (e.g. spreadsheets, planning documents)	3rd-party file hosting (e.g. Google Drive)
Outreach materials	3rd-party file hosting (e.g. Google Drive)

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 content moderators for the entire site, and exclusive editors of the site content they have created.