Beginners Start Here!

This is a short tutorial for newbies on The Subud Wiki.

A Taste of The Subud Wiki

The basic aim of The Subud Wiki is to facilitate communication and collaboration between Subud members, on topics in general such as enterprises, Subud centres, wing activities, organisational matters, documentation of meetings and events, and personal interests. It is very easy to create, edit and discuss topics on the site: you don't need to know anything about computers! You first need to register to view and edit pages on the wiki. Registration is open to Subud members only. The wiki is intended for open communication between Subud members: anything you post can be read by all other members. The rules of The Subud Wiki are very simple, see: TheSubudWikiRules.

What is a Wiki?

A Wiki is a website which a user can edit, simply through their browser. It is a convenient way of sharing information online.

• "Wiki" is short for "wiki wiki", the Hawaiian for "Quick"
• The most famous example is Wikipedia, illustrating the use of a wiki to collaborate on a free encyclopedia. Here's Wikipedia's article on wikis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
• A Wiki is basically a shared, online, persistent whiteboard

The Subud Wiki

The Subud Wiki has three functions:

• Networking: each member has a Profile Page—like on Facebook—which can be used to display their personal photo, contact details, skills, interests, links... whatever they want to share
• Wiki: any member can add content
  ... or change what is written
  ... or change the organisation of the content
• Forum: any member can join in the conversations and add topics

Whatever what you write is
... nicely presented
... remembered ... and always accessible.

Navigating The Subud Wiki

The header bar contains two boxes to find the topic you want:

• Jump - if you know the name of the topic you want to navigate to, you can put it in here and hit enter.
• Search - searches The Subud Wiki

The side bar contains everything you need to navigate the site:

My Profile: your Facebook-like profile, visible to the other members of The Subud Wiki

My Notification List: edit the list of topics of whose changes you will be notified in a weekly email

Settings: change your personal details, email adress and password

Wiki Main Page: a convenient link to The Subud Wiki main page

Forum: a link to the Forum main page

Create New Topic: create a new page with a name of your choosing (name must be a WikiWord!)

Members Table: the table of Subud Wiki members, sortable by name and location

Members Photo Book: the page of profile photos of members: a bit like Facebook!

New & Updated: a list of new and recently updated pages on The Subud Wiki and Forum

Categories & Topics: pages in The Subud Wiki arranged into cagegories

Index: a complete list of topics in The Subud Wiki

Search: advanced search interface

RSS News Feed: link to the RSS news feed of new and updated pages on The Subud Wiki. Add this to your browser's bookmarks for a convenient way of keeping up to date with changes!

Site Statistics: statistics on the recent most-read topics of The Subud Wiki.

The footer contains everything that you can do with the current page:

Edit	brings up the WYSIWYG editor for the current page (like a word processor!)
Attach	attach a file (e.g. a picture) to the page
Print version	load a printable version of the page
History: r3 < r2 < r1	complete history and revision numbers of the page
Backlinks	what links here
Raw View	the raw text in the page (without formatting)
Raw Edit	edit the raw text in the page
More topic actions	advanced operations on the page

Member profiles

Each member has a profile page, which works like Facebook:

• you can put a photo of yourself
• your contact details, if you wish to post these
• a status message

The Subud Wiki has a feature that Facebook doesn't have, you are free to edit the page as you like, for example to write:

• more about yourself, your experience, skills and interests
• pictures
• links
• attachments
• whatever your imagination permits!

Each profile page can only be edited by the member to whom it belongs.

Membership Table and Photo Book

You can browse and search the list of members:

• by the Members Photo Book of their profile pictures:

• by the Members Table – a sortable table of the details they have posted:

Creating, editing and linking pages

You can easily create new pages:

• by clicking the link Create New Topic on the side bar
• by clicking on a link to a page that doesn't exist yet (shown as a question mark after a WikiWord)
• Any time you try to visit a page that doesn't exist, The Subud Wiki will invite you to create it.

Make sure the names of topics are always WikiWords:

All about WikiWords:

• a WikiWord is a word that starts with uppercase, then some lowercase, then more uppercase (a.k.a CamelCase)
• This has a special meaning to The Subud Wiki. If it matches the name of another topic, The Subud Wiki will automatically create a link to that page for you.
• If there is no such page, then the word is highlighted and has a question mark put after the word, LikeThis?
• This lets you enter the names of topics you think should exist, but don't yet
  • You, or someone else, can always come along later and click on the question mark!
• If you want to use a WikiWord without a link appearing then just put an exclamation mark before the word: !WikiWord results in WikiWord

Linking to pages and URLs is very easy:

• A WikiWord automatically links to the page of that name
  • You can make these links easier to read using square brackets:
    • [[WikiWords][bumpy words]] appears as bumpy words
  • When linking from the main Wiki site to the Forum or from the Forum to the main Wiki site, prefix the link with Forum. or Main. respectively.
    • Forum.ForumGeneral appears as ForumGeneral
• An ordinary URL pasted into text will appear as a link - http://www.subud.org
  • You can also prettify URLs using square brackets:
    • [[http://www.subud.org.uk/][Subud Britain]] appears as Subud Britain

Editing is done with the WYSIWYG editor:

• click on the Edit link at the top right of the page
• It's just as easy to edit a Subud Wiki page as use a word processor!
• You can use smileys: typing :-) gives ... see the full list of supported smileys in SmileysTable. You can even add smileys to this table!!
• you can also edit the raw text of the topic if you wish, using Foswiki Markup Language (click on the Raw Edit link in the page footer). A full reference of Foswiki formatting is here: TextFormattingRules, and a "light" version in WikiSyntax.

The Forum

The Subud Wiki has a bulletin board-style forum, for the discussion of topics in general. Topics are currently arranged in to categories relating to the wings of Subud:

• Charitable, Cultural, Enterprise;
• there is also an Organisation category for discussion about organisational matters;
• and a General category for everything else, e.g. the meaning of life.

Email Notifications and RSS News Feed

The Subud Wiki can send you email notifications of topics that have been added or changed in the Wiki or Forum: you can choose to be notified of:

• all changes
• specific topics only
• or you can turn off your notifications.

Notifications are sent to your registered email address, once per week on Sunday night (midnight GMT). Click on My Notification List on the sidebar to edit your notifications.

Alternatively you can keep updated with The Subud Wiki through your web browser, via the RSS News Feed.

Personal information and settings

On registration, The Subud Wiki requests and stores the following personal information:

• Name (you must use your real name)
• Email address
• Local Subud group
• City
• Country

Your name, email address and local Subud group are then posted to your profile page. Your profile page also gives a convenient way of displaying a photo of yourself and contact details if you wish to post these. You can post whatever information you like on your profile.

All personal information that you post is visible only to registered members of The Subud Wiki.

The Subud Wiki keeps a separate record of your email address, which is used for notifications. This record is kept private and entirely separate from anything you post on your profile page, and can be changed by clicking Settings in the sidebar, along with your password.

Attachments, graphics, sound and video

You can attach files to a page by using the Attach button at the top right (and in the footer) of the page.

• To embed pictures in a topic:
  • first click Edit, to bring up The Subud Wiki editor
  • then attach them with the attach button
  • then embed them with the image button

You can embed multimedia in a page (e.g. attached videos and sounds or videos from YouTube) by following the instructions in MediaPlugin.

Advanced formatting and Foswiki macros

Macros are commands enclosed in percent signs that are that are expanded to some other text or graphics when the topic is displayed. For example, %TOPIC% is expanded to BeginnersStartHere, the title of this topic. Two useful macros are:

• %TOC% will insert a table of contents
• %COMMENT% will insert a little comment box in the topic – so people can add blog-style comments at the bottom.

For a full list, see System.Macros.

Documentation Graphics: There are many icons available to use in your topics as macros. Use %ICON{"help"}%, %ICON{"tip"}%, and %ICON{"warning"}% to get: , , and , respectively. DocumentGraphics lists them all.

• There's lots more formatting available, see TextFormattingRules and WikiSyntax
• If you are a real masochist, you can even enter raw HTML tags!

Wiki culture

Don't be afraid – once you have registered, just jump in and try editing and contributing to The Subud Wiki! Remember that the old versions of pages are always kept and can be restored if necessary. Wikis encourage collaboration and cooperation on shared material, so just be constructive and we hope all the users will have a very pleasant experience. The AdminGroup is here to help if there are any difficulties.

Credits and Acknowledgements

• The Subud Wiki was initiated by SalmanSamsonRogers.
• The Subud Wiki website is based on an Open-Source wiki system called Foswiki: http://foswiki.org/ and several of its extensions. We acknowledge the many contributors of Foswiki and its forerunner TWiki http://twiki.org that made The Subud Wiki possible.

Related topics: TheSubudWikiRules, TwoMinuteTour, TextFormattingRules, WikiSyntax