How to use this wiki site

This wiki is designed to help share and build knowledge about innovation and invention in South Australia. The articles in the wiki describe inventions and innovations and the people and places associated with them.

Using a wiki is easy. A wiki is first and foremost a web site. You can do all the things you do on any web site. You can look at text and images, play video, follow hyperlinks or search for content.

What is special about a wiki web site is that registered users can comment, or add to and change what appears on the site. Registration is free and open to everyone. All that is required is an email address and a willingness to make a contribution.

Joining as a registered user of the Innovention wiki
To register as a user on the Innovention wiki, click where it says Join Here in the left hand column. A simple sign in process allows you to become a member with the ability to create articles, edit, comment and contribute memories.

Learning how to use the wiki authoring and editing tools is easy. The site uses the Mediawiki software, which is the same as that used for Wikipedia, the world famous online encyclopaedia. Innovention works somewhat differently from Wikipedia, but the principles are the same.

When you have logged in with your user account, the tabs across the top of the article allow you to add and edit, or to discuss it. Discussion is useful if you just want to contribute some information, or ask a question but don't want to edit the article itself. Usually the author will respond to your question and appreciate any new information you can provide.

By default, the page tab is active when you view an article. You can view other information using the other tabs such as discussion and history.

When you are a registered user and have logged in to the site, you see an additional set of tabs above each article. These include Edit, Watch, Refresh.

Edit gives you the ability to change the content in the article, using the data form and text authoring tools.

Watch enables you to be emailed details about any changes to a particular article.

Use Refresh when you have updated a page to make sure you are viewing the latest version of the article.

Always remember to save your changes before exiting.

Creating a new article
We welcome new authors and articles sharing information about South Australian inventions and innovations great and small and the people and places associated with them. To create an article you must be a registered member of the site. To create an article go to the category page for what you wish to create: Inventions (generally something entirely new) innovations (new practices or adaptations of existing technologies) or associated people and places. Once you have named your article a form enables you to create your article. Be careful in naming articles, because the names cannot be changed later. (This protects consistency in the wiki).

For more help with using the wiki, [mailto:Innovention12@yahoo.com.au send an email] to the site administrator of the wiki at the National Trust of South Australia.

Wiki etiquette
BE NICE! is the first principle. Treat others' work with the same respect you would expect for your own.

Please be considerate of others, Innovention is a shared, collaborative space. Use the editing and discussion functions to make constructive comments and contributions, not to criticise the work of others. If you believe there are errors or omissions in an article, use the discussion function to raise these matters with the author/s.

Most of all enjoy!