Getting+Started+in+the+C3HUU+Wiki

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Getting Started
Welcome to our collaborative web space, the C3HUU Wiki! See [|Wikipedia for history of Wikis] -- simply put a Wiki is a set of tools designed to allow multiple people to rapidly create and update web sites for team collaboration and communications. This C3HUU Wiki may be viewed by anyone on the Internet, but editing is only by members who have applied for access. In order to edit, you will need to first join Wikispaces.com by clicking on the "Join" link in the upper right hand corner of this web page. Please follow the directions or click on the "Wikispaces" icon in the far upper right corner for help.

Once you are a Wikispaces.com member, sign in and your user name will appear in the upper right corner as you work. Then go to any web page that starts with "http://C3H.Wikispaces.com" and click on the "Join this space" link that appears in the upper left corner under the flaming chalice logo and just under the "Actions" title.

You will get an e-mail response within a few hours to perhaps a day and then you can get started editing content on this C3H Wiki. If you already have a C3HUU Wiki page assigned to you or your group, then go to that page. If you don't already have a C3H Wiki page, [|send a message to C3HITServ] and one will be created for you. There is also a C3H Test Wiki page which you are welcome to try editing and using special effects prior to working on your page.

Once you have a C3HUU Wiki page to work on, then you can get started, click on the 'Edit' link which now appears at the top center of any C3HUU Wiki page to edit or add content to page. You and other contributors can also comment on pages using the 'Discussion' link at the top of every Wiki page. There are tutorials available from http://www.wikispaces.com/help on how to create content. The editor that pops up is very much like the Microsoft Wordpad editor, it is a simple "What you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG) editor with some special functions described in the Wikispaces.com tutorials.

About This C3HUU Wiki
This C3HUU Wiki is currently **protected**. It can be seen by everyone, but only Wikispaces.com members who have been approved by the C3HUU Wiki organizers can edit pages.

If you are a space organizer, you may change your space's settings, look and feel or permissions and members. As a space contributor, you can also change your subscription options and see [|statistics] about this wiki.

When you create new section headings, click on the "Normal" pull down menu in the Editor toolbar above, and pick any "Header" type. Each header forms an entry in the page table of contents which displays by default in the upper left corner of the page. If you wish to have a "Table of Contents" (TOC) added to a page in the upper left corner, then add toc

to the top of the Wiki page (or wherever you want a TOC to appear).

Subscribing to Changes
Once you are a Wikispaces.com member, you can "subscribe" to any Wiki page and get an e-mail message when that page is updated either by editing the page, renaming the page, or deleting the page. To subscribe, click on the "notify me" tab toward the top of the screen, usually to the left of center.

Other UUA Wikispaces

 * Champlain Valley UU Society
 * South East District UU Tech Wikispace
 * UUA Congregations and Beyond project wikispace
 * Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Of Briarcliff, Croton & Ossining gardens

Need Help?
For more information on how to use Wikispaces, see the Wikispaces.com help section. Some other references that we have found very useful and inspiring in setting up Wikispaces.com pages:
 * Web 2.0 Cool Tricks for Schools (school related wikis on this service are free and have no ads!)
 * [|Using a Wiki in Education], much of the material seems relevant to a church
 * Getting Tricky with Wikis

Contact Us
If you need help from Wikispaces.com, please contact them at help@wikispaces.com.