The MIT GNU/Linux Users Group

WELCOME TO THE WIKI SECTION OF THE MIT-G/LUG!

Who are we? This is a community of present students and alumni from the Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai, who are interested in FOSS and GNU/Linux. This portal is an attempt to set-up an online identity for those of us interested in working with free software.

What is a Wiki?

Wiki - is software for creating of web pages directly from a browser. Wiki can be used to create knowledge bases and document storages, data exchange inside a community, collectively create documents and articles, project management etc.

The key feature of Wiki is to enable cooperative effort on content. Any user can be an author, editor and commentator at the same time. The user has tools to edit pages content, organizing cross links and tracking changes.

Wiki saves all changes that have been introduced since when articles are first created. At any moment two versions of the same article can be compared to view made changes, perform correction of the page again or simply roll back to the older version. Therefore to fix losses is easier than damage anything. And of course administrators always can block changes of one and the same article or allow editing to specific users only.

To format texts Wiki-markup can be used enabling users to create pages without learning html or xml. Wiki-markup is exceptionally simple. Its basic rules can be learned within a few minutes which are enough to edit and create new materials. The documentation and description of Wiki can be found here.

You can start working with the Wiki right away.

What are we going to use this for?

At this preliminary stage, some of us suggested that the wiki section of the portal could be used to create user-contributed tutorials about GNU/Linux software. This would be better than using the forum since anyone from this community who wished to make a particular section better could edit it.

That's the idea for now. Let's do the experiment and see how things work out.

NOTE:

If the text on the page seems to be extending beyond the browser window, you can remedy that by choosing another skin for the wiki page from the "Preferences" link on the sidebar to the left. Preview the different skins available till you find one that you are comfortable with.