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Welcome to the Community Portal. This is the place to find out what's happening on WikiWOOD. Learn what tasks need to be done, what groups there are to join, and get or post news about recent events or current activities taking place on WikiWOOD. The talk page is a good place to discuss issues that affect the whole wiki.

To date, there are 72 woodworking articles in WikiWOOD.

Getting started, Sharing your woodworking experience

First, read the rules below.
Second, go to Category:Help to see how pages are created, edited, navigated, etc ...
Third, visit the sandbox. This is an area where you can freely edit and experiment without fear of breaking anything.

When you have an article in mind, search the topic to see if it has been already been started or at least has a link. Again, just because an article has already been started does not mean that it is complete or cannot be expanded and collaborated.

Even if you have little or no experience with wiki's, you can contribute by simply putting your content into an article ... don't worry about formatting. Typing {{wikify}} at the bottom of your article places it in a list of articles that could use some formatting or organizing. Because you article will contain the {{wikify}} tag, experienced wiki users can find it later and fix it up.

If you need help finding your way around, take a look at Guide for newcomers, and if you want to learn how to write a great WikiWOOD article, a good place to start is WikiWOOD:Writing quality articles.

Be Bold: Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful. ~ Mark Victor Hansen

Quick editing links: Help:Editing | General Help Page | Sandbox

Getting help

  • The main help pages contain information about how pages are created, edited, navigated, etc ...
  • Search your help topic. Tip: When searching, be sure you have selected the 'help' category otherwise the default search will not show help items.
  • If you are still stuck, go to the Help Desk and leave a question.
  • The wiki forums at woodBASE.org is a good place to post questions and make announcements.

To do list (wiki related)

Add your to-do's here

  • Safety template needed for How-to articles etc. see WikiWOOD talk:Community Portal See {{stopandread}} and {{safetyfirst}}
  • Clarify / reduce the text at the top of the page on Category:Help - it's probably confusing to newcomers.
  • Sidebar link to Forum is broken.
  • Make a favicon
  • Need code like wikipedia's 'ref' for adding references and notes.
  • Need some mechanism for recommending pages for deletion.

Articles requested

See also: Woodturning, Open tasks and Wood, Open tasks

WikiWOOD communities you can support

WikiWOOD communities are dedicated to improving WikiWOOD's coverage of particular topics, or to organizing some internal WikiWOOD process.

Add your WikiCommunities here

Pages flagged for expansion or cleanup

Don't know where to start or are out of fresh ideas for new articles? You can help by improving existing articles that have been flagged for maintenance.

Articles that need to be wikified ... this may be the most important tag of all!

By typing {{wikify}} at the bottom of an article places it in the list of articles that need wikification.

Because this allows the novice user to contribute their experience, even with little or no wiki knowledge, the {{wikify}} tag is perhaps the most important tag we have.

Novice users can contribute by simply dumping their content into a new article and flag it with the {{wikify}} tag. More experienced wiki users can then come behind them and fix up these articles.

example of the {{wikify}} tag ...

Image:50px-Wikitext.png This article or section needs to be wikified to meet wikiWOOD's quality standards.
Please help improve this article by applying the proper formatting, layouts and links as well as tagging any further issues.


Note: this maintenance template is inserted here for reference only and is not meant to indicate a need for editing.

Patrol

There are many things on a wiki that need constant monitoring, mainly associated with vandalism and making sure content does not get lost. There are a number of Special pages that should be checked regularly:

Also Category:Files with no copyright status specified.

Policies & Guidelines

Policies are basic rules everyone is expected to follow. Guidelines are recommendations rather than hard-and-fast rules. Please consult the Policies and Guidelines.

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