Searching and Browsing

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By understanding the anatomy of a wiki page you can learn what a wiki can do and how to get around. These four screen captures summarize options for navigation, orientation and searching, editing, and uploading.

1. Main Page and Navigation - how to get around - 2. Content Pages and Orientation - about knowing where your are and how to find things using categories - 3. Editing - how you create and modify pages - 4. Uploading - how to load documents or images into the wiki for use and archiving

Searching and Browsing Tips

There are are number of different ways to get around the wiki. Some familiarity with the anatomy of a page will help you. You can search, browse through pages, many of which have embedded lists, look at categories, or use a wide range of special pages that let you query the wiki for information.