This page describes the usage of this wiki. We invite all volunteers to have a quick look around before they start editing. This is important, as there is a lot of information to organize. Please feel free to discuss as well.

• Sign up to be able to edit existing articles. Just click "edit". For guidelines read this page.
• If you want to create a new article, try a search first. Look if there already is a stub or something similar that you can work on or extend. If not, please log in and add your new article to the inbox namespace. Please try to use one of our article templates for a nice and uniform look.
• The wiki syntax can be found in syntax

For more detailed information, continue reading. Thank you!

We use namespaces, categories and tags. The structure is defined from top to bottom goes like this:

• Namespaces are highest. Example: doc
• Categories are within namespaces. They distinguish different kinds of docs. Example: howto
• Tags can be used to create more grained pointers to a piece of documentation.

Please refer to the structure page for a specific overview.

There are 4 different namespaces:

• Meta is this page
• TOH (aka Table of Hardware),
• Inbox and
• Documentation
• Oldwiki only for legacy reasons. It can be a good source and inspiration for new documentation. Please do NOT link from wiki or nuwiki into the oldwiki namespace! Instead, please have a look at migrating.

• Visitors just pass by and read what they find useful. They don't need logins.
• Gardeners are all the great people creating and editing information in this wiki. Gardeners are allowed to edit all docs, but to prevent structural chaos, new articles can only be dropped into the inbox. To be a gardener all you need to do is to create an account and log in.
• Moderators are the ones who are mastering the disaster, they need to keep looking at the inbox and have an eye on edits throughout the entire wiki. Moderators take care of, and have of their focus on, structure and content.
• Admins are there to help out everywhere and also manage user permissions.

More information on the moderation process: moderating.

Keep things simple. We shall never ever have redundant possible places for the same content! This means that information shall only appear in the wiki once. If it be needed somewhere else, we refer to it with a link! Also, in each namespace, there shall be a maximum of 3 (three) sublevels!

All articles should generally reflect information that is valid for the current stable release. Information that applies to trunk builds may be included, but should be marked as such.

Please go to migrating if you would like to help migrating info into nuwiki.

If you want to contribute, these are the top open issues we need help with:

1. Migrating Oldwiki pages and other info migrating
2. Templates for articles - Add these to inbox if you lack permissions
   1. Especially the model description template is important at the moment: trialtemplate
   2. Suggestions for category portal pages, i.e. howto.
3. Howto for moderators moderating.
4. Template for a 'virtual' overview page, which makes it possible in an emergency case (e.g. moderators cannot fulfill the Mantra ..) , to reference stuff in multiple locations

Please use the meta:discussion page for discussing all the buzz which has been written here :)