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Contributors' Notes

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Contributors' Notes

 

First Things First

 

Before you can add a new list of schools (or other college search reference documents), you'll need to request the wiki invite key.  Please do so from your professional (school or counseling affiliated) email account, so that we can be confident that you are a friend of the project.   

 

With your passworded access, you can either edit existing lists, or create a new list


Editing A List

 

Once you've logged in to the site using the wiki password, you'll be able to edit any of the wiki's pages.  Just click on the "Edit Page" button near the top of the page, and a set of toolbars similar to those you see while working on a document will appear.  Go ahead and click on "Edit Page," make your changes, and then hit "Save" (or "Cancel," if you've made a mistake) at the bottom of the page.  Anything you've entered should show up on the page, including live links to any text you added that included a complete web address. 

 

PBwiki automatically saves all previous versions of every page in the wiki, so if for any reason we need to revert back to a previous version of a page you've worked on, we'll be able to do that pretty easily, so there's nothing to be nervous about.

If you're still feeling a little tentative about the idea of editing "someone else's" website, let us remind you of the inherently collaborative nature of wikis... if you've been given a password, you are a part-owner of the site!

 

If you'd be more comfortable "playing around" with the editing tools on a page without "real" content, you are welcome to do that over in the Sandbox.  To mix a metaphor: c'mon in, the water's fine!

 


Adding A List

 

Before you take the step of adding your first new page to the wiki, please take a moment to review these tips.

 

First, do a few searches of the wiki (there's a search box at the top right-hand corner of every page) to make sure that you're not overlapping too much with an alread existing page.  The bigger the CollegeLists wiki gets (and as of December, 2007, it had over 200 pages), the more likely it is that you'll be editing an existing page to include your information, rather than starting an entirely new page.

 

If you think you've got some new content to add -- a list of schools or any other information you think might be helpful to the broader college counseling community -- you'll be creating a new page in the wiki. To start a new page, click the New Page at the top left.  (You might want to print out these instructions first.)

 

Give your your page a straight-forward and descriptive name.   Because the wiki's index is alphabetical by page title, try to make the first word the one that folks would most likely think of if trying to find this list.

 

At the top of your new page, re-state your page's title, preferably in Heading 2, Arial font.  (These designations are available through the Format and Font pulldown menus in the editing toolbars.)

 

Also at the top of your page, feel free to include any contextual information you think may be useful to others:

  • type of student who might make use of this list
  • source of the list (this also sometimes appears at the bottom of a page)
  • possible sources of additional information
  • lingering questions you have about the list
  • possibly a link to our Disclaimer page

 

Examples: Astrobiology, Orchestras

 

Then either start typing, or cut and paste your information from your source.

 

Complete web addresses (e.g. http://www.nacacnet.org/) should automatically "convert" to live links once you hit "save." 

 

If you want to use

Headings,

bold text, or other formatting in your list, you'll find that the editing process is similar to that which you use for word processing.  Once you hit "edit," a toolbar with editing options will appear at the top of the page you're working on.

 

Once you like what you've got, add a one-line description of where the information came from at the bottom.  Then hit "Save" and you're done.  Your document will now automatically appear in the College Lists index.  If you find a typo that you missed, hit "edit" again and repeat until you've got it just the way you want it.  Thank you for your help!


General Guidelines

 

Lists of schools should generally be alphabetical by name or state, and the state where each school is located should be indicated by its two-letter abbreviation just after the name of the school.

 

Please do not delete information added by another wiki member unless you are sure that it is factually incorrect.

 

Please post in a way that is respectful of the efforts of the colleges and universities you may be including on a list.  Try to provide information rather than judgments.

 

Please wait until you have a list that you think would be of general use to the broader community.

 

Please avoid adding wiki pages which include lists generated by a search in one of the available databases.  If the information is "gettable" via a search engine, it's best to just continue to direct folks to that search engine or database.

 


Tagging Your List (Extra Credit!)

 

A tag is a one-word description of a document. This space uses tags to organize information so that information may be multiply categorized, and thereby easier to find. You (and any subsequent user) may assign as many tags as you like to a document. Tags may contain letters, numbers, and dashes.

 

Once your new or edited page looks the way you'd like it to, think about how you or someone else might look for it in the future. What are the first few terms that someone might search on if they were looking for this information?

 

After you've saved your edited page, go to the page and scroll down until you see the "Page Information" section at the bottom left.  Click on the "+" sign to add a tag to your page.  To get a sense of the tags that have already been used in the College Lists wiki so far, see this comprehensive tag list.

 

Once you've tagged your document, it will be searchable via the tags that you assigned to it.  Thank you for your contribution to the College Lists wiki!

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