Creating a New Team Page

• This website is a wiki, without an account you can only browse the contents. After creating an account, you will be able to create and edit your event page.

Create your Wiki account

In order to create or edit pages, you will need a wiki account.

1. Simply go to this page to create a wiki account.

2. Now that your account is created simply log in!

3. You're done with this step, welcome to the SFD Wiki!

Find your country and city

As next step, simply go to "this year" page and navigate to your country and then city e.g. France, Paris. E.g. since this year is 2015, we will use 2015 as an example for the following steps, if the year is 2016, please change all the 2015 keywords as 2016.

Step 1: Find your country

1. If you found your country in the 2015 page , please click on your country to go to your country page.

2. If you cannot find your country, please check out Add a new country section to create your own.

Step 2: Find your city

1. If you found your city in your country page, simply click on your city to go to your city page.

2. If you cannot find your city in the country page, please check out Add a new city section to add your city.

Step 3: Create your team page

1. Go directly to Create Your Team Page section to learn how to create your event page.

Step 4: Update your city page

Please go to Update your city page section to add your team in your city page so people can find your team and participate.

Add a new country

If you cannot find your country in the 2015 list.

For example, if you want to create an event called "Paris SFD" from France please follow the steps below to create a new country page.

Step 1: Scroll down to the page bottom and add a new country page

1. Please scroll down to the bottom of the 2015 page where you will find a section to add a new country.

2. Add your country name (e.g. France) in the empty text box.
3. Click on the "Add country" button.

Step 2: Add your country description The next screen shows you an standard country template like this if you use wiki mode

and like this is you use the GUI mode

Note that you can switch from one mode to the other one without saving just by clicking on the "GUI mode"/"Text mode" button.

So now you need to do your first editing using wiki. You can easily use the GUI mode, which is great for doing copy&paste from other web sites, or wiki style. As mentioned above switching from one to the other is very easy. If you plan on using wiki style then look at HelpOnMoinWikiSyntax to discover all the possibilities that it offers.

A quick edit of this page will be like this:

1. Add a description below SFD @ PAGE @ for people to know more about your country
2. For description, you may go to Wikipedia and copy the first, second or third paragraph of your country description (CTRL+C)
3. Go back to your SFD Wiki page and switch to GUI mode

4. Place your cursor at the end of the SFD CreateYourTeampage and type enter

5. A new line will be inserted with your cursor at the beginning of this line
6. Paste the content of the clipboard (CTRL+V)
7. Save changes.

You're done!

Do not remove any other information from that page before saving, those will be very useful in the future.

Add a new city

1. If your city is not listed in the country page, please follow the steps as below.

2. If your city already exist, you will want to go directly to the next step to create your team page.

Step 1: Scroll down to the page bottom and create a new city page

1. Please scroll down to the bottom of the 2015 page where you will find a section to add a new city.

2. Add your city name in the empty box (don't forget to use a Capital letter, it's always nicer).
3. Click on the "Create city" button.

Step 2: Add your city description

The wiki will then automatically create a City page based on the right template for you. And that page will look like this if you are in Text mode:

or like this if you use the GUI mode:

As you can see from the template we have designed a zone to add a little description of your location. You can easy use the GUI mode, which is great for doing copy&paste from the web, or wiki style editing. As mentioned above switching from one to the other is very easy. If you plan on using wiki style then look at HelpOnMoinWikiSyntax to discover and learn all the possibilities that it offers.

A quick edit of this page will be like this:

1. Add a description below @ PAGE @ for people to know more about your city
2. For description, you may go to Wikipedia and copy the first, second or third paragraph of your city description (CTRL+C)
3. Go back to your SFD Wiki page and switch to GUI mode

4. Place your cursor at the end of the CreateYourTeampage and type enter

5. A new line will be inserted with your cursor at the beginning of this line
6. Paste the content of the clipboard (CTRL+V)
7. Save changes.

You're done!

Do not remove any other information from that page before saving, those will be very useful in the future.

Creating your team page

So you're arriving at the main section. If you created the page, it will be empty with the two bullet points Team 1 and Team 2 (we'll get back to those). If not, there should be some existing events listed in your city or region page. Do not worry about those yet.

The team page itself

Go to the bottom of the page to find the text box to create your team page. The box will look like this:

Once you have entered the name of your team click on the "Create Team" button. The wiki will then automatically create a Team page based on the team template . And that page will look like this if you are in Text mode:

or like this if you use the GUI mode:

Now just fill in your Team name and if you have no definite plan yet, just inform your potential readers that you're working on it. Maybe leave some ways to contact you if they are interested in joining your team.

Do not remove the CategoryTeam tag at the bottom of the page. This insures that your team gets listed in the team list page.

When typing text in Wiki mode you will notice that words with 2 capital letters in it such as OpenSource create an automatic link to a wiki page. This called CamelCase in wiki language and design to make URL linking and creation easy. If you do not want hyperlink to be create just add an exclamation mark in front of that term such as !OpenSource.

Note your team URL, you can see it in the navigation bar in your browser once you've saved it. Just remove the #preview at the end of. You will need 2015/Country/City/Team for the next section and the registration form.

Updating the city/region page

After you finished creating your team page, please return to the city page to list your team page there for people to find your team.

Step 1: Go to your city page

1. Please click on the grey banner above your team name: you should see your region/city listed right there.

2. Or you can go back to 2015, click on your country and then your city to go to your city page.

Pressing the back button or back arrow from your browser will not work and ask you to resubmit the data you just submit. Another way can be to just remove your team name from the browser address bar and type enter.

Step 2: Edit your city page

1. Once you are on your city page, click "Edit" button. You have two way to do this:
   • Text mode: requires that you use the direct wiki URL to your page as mentioned above
   • GUI mode: gives you the ability to do an automatic search on your event page

GUI Mode

1. Clik on Edit (GUI) button
2. Replace Team 1 by your team name
3. Select your team name with your mouse and click on the hyperlink button from the toolbar like in the screenshot below

   

4. Type your team name in the search box and click search (like in the screenshot above)
5. Click on the drop down button from the search result and make sure you select the link with the full location to your page that includes country and city
6. Click Ok
7. Delete the Team 2 line (and the bullet as well)
8. Do not change anything else
9. Save changes.

Do not remove the CategoryRegion tag at the bottom as it ensures that your region/city gets listed in the region/city page.

Text Mode

1. Clik on Edit button
2. Replace Team 1 by your team name

3. Make a link to that page by typing [[2015/country/city/teampage|Your team name]]

4. Delete the Team 2 line (and the star as well)
5. Do not change anything else
6. Save changes

Do not remove the CategoryRegion tag at the bottom as it ensures that your region/city gets listed in the region/city page.

Want a shortcut?

URLs can become very long. So we provide a way to make a shortcut.

1. Go to page s

2. Enter a simple "shortcut" intot the form which will result in the URL http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/s/shortcut

3. Edit the page to reflect your target wiki page (after the #REDIRECT or even a HTTP-#REFRESH.

Add an image in your wiki page

There are two ways to attach an image:

1. Click "Actions" on the top right corner
2. Click "Attach File"
3. "Browse" and select your file to attach
4. Click "Upload"
5. Click "Edit" on your wiki page and put the above wiki code on your page:

6. The code: {{attachment:YourImageFileName.png}}

7. Click "Save"
8. Go back to your wiki page, you will see your image there

Another way:

1. Click "Edit" on your wiki page and put the above wiki code on your page:

2. The code: {{attachment:YourImageFileName.png}}

3. Click "Save"
4. Click on the image file name and it will automatically bring you to the upload page
5. "Browse" and select your file to attach
6. Click "Upload"
7. Go back to your wiki page, you will see your image there

If you need further details, please go to HelpOnImage page

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