So, you're a SCOOPS board member, and you see that Matt's done something to the webpage, and it's all suddenly more complicated! What? Why?

What is this?

A Wiki is a website that anyone can edit. You may have met Wikipedia before; that's a wiki. This page isn't precisely a wiki, because I'm going to take great care to ensure that only board members (or people they decide to trust) can edit pages that contain official information. That way, team members and managers who come to this site can be certain that the official information that they see is correct. Well, at least incorrect in an official way. As far as I can tell, y'all don't have a resident webmaster after I leave, and I'm going to be elsewhere very shortly. I don't mind making sure that things don't fall apart, but it'd be a big hassle for me to maintain the actual content of the SCOOPS webpage by myself. So, I'm putting together this webpage in the time that I have still in South Carolina, and I'm going to make it easy for everyone to edit the whole website. There are a million ways this can be useful - at the very least, it can act as a means of communication for team members; creating a little bit of community.

However, this website doesn't know, from the beginning, who everyone is. To be able to edit official pages (or, right now, any page), you need to be listed on ScoopsGroup. Click on the "login" link, and make a username and password. Since we're real people, acting as real people, it's best to use your RealName as your username. For example, my name is MattElder. Note that both first and last names are capitalized, and there is no space - that's important, as I'll explain later. Once you have a user name, email me and I'll add you to ScoopsGroup, and then you'll be able to edit the website, too.

How do I use this thing?

Well, it's not too hard. If you want to change a page, click the "edit" link. The edit link is on the sidebar to the right. The simplest way to create a new page is to edit a page that you want to link to it, and add a WikiName in its text. Then, after you've saved the edited page, click on the new link that you've just made. That will take you to a menu page where you can select blank new page, or one of several page templates. For the link you'll make on your own user name, you'll probably want to use the HomepageTemplate. If you want to make an official page, that no one but board members (and people they officially trust) select the OfficialContentTemplate. However, select this option sparingly - it's intended for pages on official policies or tournament information; things that absolutely must not be changed by anyone. But some pages - directions to meeting places, or pages of links to practice ICs, or similar useful information - might benefit greatly from "unofficial" contributions. The idea of wiki is to encourage that sort of contribution, until the website is full of useful tidbits.

The basic formatting commands are listed below the editing box. If you need something more complicated, there's extensive help at HelpOnEditing. You can also try out formatting tricks on the WikiSandBox page.

If you have any questions, feel free to email me. -- MattElder