http://www.modeltrainwiki.com/ Go there, and you'll see the home page of the Wiki. Click on "register" in the right-hand column, and it will give you a registration screen for your user name and password and email. You will be sent an email with a link in it, which you will have to click on to validate your account. Your account also will have to wait until one of the Wiki Administrators (currently just me) enables the account. I'll generally do that right away. I apologize for the inconvenience of these measures, but they are needed to keep spammers and bots out of the Wiki. Once you are registered, you will be able to add or edit any page on the site. After you have registered (or even before,) if you want to play around with the Wiki to see how it works, click on the sandbox. in the left column. The initial home page has three stubs, only one of which has a page behind it: S Scale. Once you are registered, have at it! To answer the question about why do this here instead of Wikipedia: This site lets us manage downloadable files, image galleries, blogs, calendars, discussion fora, and lots more. Further, it is the only place we can reasonably include all the preexisting articles that I'm hoping we can include, and still have them searchable from the Wiki. (Right now, nothing is activated but the Wiki, but it is all there.) I DO expect, once we get the first 50 pages or so on here, that we should go into Wikipedia and create lots of links to here. If you need help using the Wiki, there is an amazingly well-done and easy tutorial on it here: http://twbasics.keycontent.org/tiki-index.php The great thing about a Wiki is that it is YOUR site. If it's wrong, correct it. If it's missing, put it in yourself. No need to wait for anyone else. Have fun, Brian
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ctxmf74 Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 1:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} A lot of yakking - who is doing? --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com> .com, "Vivamus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Accordingly, I have registered modeltrainwiki.com. It's going to start out > as a general model train wiki, but the first stub built off the home will be > for S scale modeling. How much goes in there will be up to you all. > Will there be easy instructions so we computer illiterates can add something usefull? I think putting S in general modelrailroading wiki on equal footing makes a lot of sense. S has size on it's side and this will give a direct comparison for those shopping the available scales. One question though is ...will this have any advantage over a modelrailroading S stub off the established wikipedia?....dave [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
