What is a "wiki" anyway? What exactly can you do with this site?

The central idea of a wiki is a website in which users both read and contribute. Without signing up, you can add pages, edit pages, add text, or just generally comment on the site. Nobody approves what you put (for now) and nobody filters. The site belongs to the very special community of people that use games and simulations in their training activities (or would like to).

To read, just click on the links on the left. There are different sections, the most useful resource being the games depository. Anything in here is in the public domain for you to use as you like. However, if you wish to re-distribute what you find on here, please give credit to those authors that request it.

Editing

The simple thing to do is to click the EasyEdit button above this section. Clicking on this will let you edit what you are reading right now! Anything you do edit will be seen by everyone that opens this page after you save your edits.

Obviously, there is faith that in the community, everyone is looking to continuously improve the site as a resource to them. If the spammers show up and start placing ads, the administrators will have to take some control. For now, this hasn't been a problem with public wikis.

Creating New Content

This is what we are truly looking for - people to add new materials. Its as simple as clicking "add a new page...." on the left hand column. You will be presented with a blank page. Click EasyEdit and you can either cut and paste your content in, or you can type to your heart's delight. Our chosen host for this wiki provides you with basic formatting tools as you'll see in the box that pops up after you hit EasyEdit.

When you add a page, be careful where you place it. When you click "add a new page...." the page will go as a child under whichever page you were last reading. If you wish to add a game, you should go to the games page before adding the page. The administrators can move pages around if you make a mistake.

Do not forget to save your changes!!!!!!!

You can create a page without adding content - this is called a placeholder. If you believe there's an article that needs to be written or a game that needs to be described, create a new page and title it - if thats all you have time for, just leave it there. Someone will come along and add something. When you come back, you may find that article you wanted to write has been written for you!

Structure

For now, the administrators of this wiki are not going to impose too much structure on the wiki contributors. If this site begins to grow and the contributions become unwieldy, we may begin to increase the structure we impose on contributions. For now this is the Wild Wild West.