How Does a Wiki Work? 

The wiki is a new approach to community-building on the Internet. The philososphy and technology are based on the astonishing success of Wikipedia.

Most of us are accustomed to mailing list forums. They serve their purpose, but a wiki provides a much more flexible and rich experience.

With a mailing list, you send an email to the forum, which collects all related emails and distributes them to the participants. Yahoo, Google, and other mailing list providers also allow you to upload files and photos, but that's about it.

In contrast, a wiki allows you the play the game at two levels:

• You can be a commenter, which is quite similar to participating in an email group, or

• You can be an author,  preparing articles with an amazing range of authoring tools.

If your interest is commenting, it couldn't be simpler. Go to the sidebar and click the link for the topic in which you want to post your comment. Once you've arrived at that page, just push the "Comments" button, type your stuff, and push the "add comment" button. You can add comments to any page, whether it is "locked" or not.

If you'd like to write an article (short, long, serious, funny, or anything else), go to The Handy Guide for Writing an Article

The "Edit" button is intended for articles. Please don't use it for comments.

Don't be afraid of breaking the wiki. As we get used to the wiki format, we will all make some mistakes. The wiki keeps track of every edit made to every page, so your faithful wiki administrators can always go back and delete those little goofs. Have fun!

- Russ Carpenter, AA7QU

Founder, the Adventure Radio Society

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