Editing wiki guide

This guide is meant to help new members become acquainted with editing the Protospace Wiki (this website).

Since the information added to this wiki can be viewed by every member, editing the wiki is an easy way to make a large volunteer contribution.

What is a wiki?

A wiki is a website with a collection of knowledge that can be edited by its users. In our case, the Protospace Wiki can only be edited by logged-in Protospace members.

Our wiki is powered by MediaWiki software, the same software that runs Wikipedia.

Basic Editing

Editing the wiki on your phone is an inconvenient mess. For simplicity, this guide will assume you're editing on a desktop (normal computer).

Logging in

• Click the "Log in" link at the top right of any wiki page.
• Log in with your Protospace username and password. These are the same as what you use to log into the member portal (Spaceport), the forums (Spacebar), and Protospace computers.
  • If the log in fails, you may need to authenticate with Spaceport and then try logging in again.
  • If you're unable to authenticate or you forget your username / password, do a password reset then try again.
  • If you still can't get in please email directors@protospace.ca, they will be happy to help you.

Edit a page

Make sure you are logged in.

• Browse to the page you'd like to edit.
• Click the blue "Edit" tab somewhat near the top right of the screen. A text editor will load.
• Edit the page however you'd like. You can use the toolbar above to format the text.
• Click the blue "Save changes..." button on the right.
• Enter a short summary of what you changed in the dialog box.
• Finally, click "Save changes" to finish, or "X" to cancel.

Additional info

Testing sandbox page

If you'd like to experiment with editing, feel free to edit the Testing page.

You can make any changes you want there to practice.

Editing source

test