Searching and Browsing

• Moderator team
• Wiki practice
• File:CategoryVen.png
• File:Pageanatomy2.png
• Video tutorials
• Create a New Page
• File:Ecosystemmodel.png
• Redirect
• File:Redirect.png
• File:Introduction.png
• Template codes
• Categories
• Discussion and Watching
• Sites and Places
• File:Anatomy1.PNG
• File:Anatomy2.PNG
• File:Anatomy3.PNG
• File:Anatomy4.PNG
• Template:Introduction
• Instructions
• Talk:Instructions
• Markup tutorial
• User Groups and Permissions
• Create a New User Account
• Linking
• Category:Raw
• The Credit Box
• File:Credit code.png
• Building a wiki presence
• File:Example diagram.png
• Stable links
• Core topic
• Cite
• Multiple columns and invoking lists of pages
• The Big Picture
• Page types
• Iconography
• Wiki Workshops
• Wiki Governance
• Social contract
• New Editor Open House Agenda
• Integrating SER Standards into Wiki Structures

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.

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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.

• The ecosystem and human system framework provides a core of organization. These pages have many links to relevant pages.
• The Categories to which a page belongs are located at the bottom of each page. You can click on a category to see all pages in that category. You can even view the most populous categories or search for pages that intersect multiple categories
• You can browse among all pages, or among all files.
• By using the what links here link in the Toolbox on your left you can follow links backwards.
• Special:RecentChanges lets you observe what pages have been changed lately (including a character count!)
• Special:PopularPages lets you see what pages are getting the most views.
• Special:Contributions lets you look for edits by user.
• Even more special pages are available.
• There are over 2000 off the shelf extensions for MediaWiki software--make a suggestion if you want additional features.