[etoys-dev] Wiki Spaces help for new users

[Milan Zimmermann]

Hi Fred,

A comment inline:
On July 29, 2009, Frederick Grose wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Milan Zimmermann <
>
> milan.zimmermann at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > Hi Fred,
> >
> > both
> > http://wiki.squeakland.org/display/sq/development
> > and
> > http://confluence.immuexa.com/display/sq/Development
> >
> > worked for me.  It does not seems like  DNS server you use lost
> > confluence.immuexa.com - perhaps a typo, or maybe the site was on some
> > sort of
> > maintenance - could you try again, and let us know?
> >
> > But in any case, please bookmark the
> >
> > http://wiki.squeakland.org/display/sq/development
> >
> > version
> >
> >
> > Milan
> >
> > On July 27, 2009, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> > > On 10.07.2009, at 13:57, Frederick Grose wrote:
> > > > After joining the Confluence site, upon login, a new user is taken
> > > > to a dashboard with no 'spaces' or instructions for adding one.
> > > >
> > > > Upon clicking a link like
> > > > http://confluence.immuexa.com/display/sq/Development , an error
> >
> > appears,
> >
> > > > "The page you were trying to reach does not
> > > > exist. You may want to try a search, or browse the site to find the
> > > > page you were looking for."
> > > >
> > > > Thank you,     --Fred
> > >
> > > Seems to work for me (but then, I'm not a new user). Note that the
> > > canonical url for the wiki is
> > >
> > > http://wiki.squeakland.org/
> > >
> > > - Bert -
>
> Thanks Bert and Milan!
>
> Timothy Falconer adjusted something that enabled the connection shortly
> after my first post.

ok .. good. Hope you can access consistently now.

>
> The interface is sufficiently different from MediaWiki that I have some
> more exploring to do.  Is there a wiki primer?

If you are adding to or editing one of the pages, you can use "Rich Text" 
which as sort of a WISYWIG editor  a bit annoying but OK. Or use "Wiki Markup" 
which has reasonable help on the right...

>
> It seems  that a new user does not get edit privileges.  Is that by intent,
> or a startup problem I've experienced?

I think you need an account:

http://tracker.squeakland.org

Let me know if you were not able to edit once you login...

milan

>
>        --Fred