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March 2009

New Blog Theme: Thesis

March 16, 2009

I’ve updated the RichmondWiki Blog with a new theme. It’s called Thesis, a highly customizable blog layout that makes it much easier to present information in user-friendly ways. Like it? Hate it? Leave a comment either way and let me know what you think. If you want to get this theme for yourself, go to [...]

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Simple Tip #4: Linking Between Articles

March 13, 2009

Quick recap for those of you just joining us. This is part 4 in a 5-part series entitled, “Simple Tips to Improve a RichmondWiki Article.” Parts 1 through 3 dealt with adding categories, creating a Google Map, and incorporating templates, respectively. Today’s topic is simple. It’s all about how to link between articles and the [...]

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Simple Tip #3: Using Templates

March 12, 2009

MediaWiki templates are one of the most powerful editing tools in the software package. Unfortunately they are also one of the most confusing elements for new editors. What is a Wiki Template? Imagine that RichmondWiki has 100 articles for different businesses. We want each one to have the same basic visual layout for the name, [...]

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Simple Tip #2: Add a Google Map

March 11, 2009

Did you know that you can add a Google Map to any article in RichmondWiki? Setting up a basic one is easy, but there are a few advanced features that really make them sizzle. Example #1: Dog Parks One of my favorite examples is the map pictured below, which was taken from the Dog Parks [...]

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Simple Tip #1: Add Categories

March 10, 2009

Many, many more people visit RichmondWiki than actually contribute content or edit an article. This is normal wiki behavior. After all, not everybody feels empowered by a wiki platform to create something. Other visitors are intimidated by the wiki syntax. Part 1: Adding Categories Part of the power of a wiki is the categorization of [...]

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