Executive Summary:
I've just made a wiki for the Austin Improv Collective! It's at http://wiki.austinimprov.com/.
I've put up some content to start us off, and I'd love it if you all added your own contributions.
Longer Version/FAQ:
What Is It?
The site is like Wikipedia, only it's devoted to Austin improv. It's there to accumulate useful information about shows, troupes, performers, and anything else relevant to our improv scene.
Who Can Contribute?
Anybody! To edit a page on the wiki, click the "Edit" link in the top right corner. To create a new page, click on any red link.
Alternately, you can type the title of a page you want to create into the search box and click "Go" -- if that page doesn't exist, the wiki will give you a link for creating it.
I haven't used a wiki before! How do I make my page look pretty?
First off, don't worry about it. It's *incredibly* easy for the rest of us to make the content you add look pretty. But it's hard (as in "impossible") for the rest of us to magically know the things that *you* know about the Austin improv scene. So be bold, make mistakes, and trust that the rest of this community has your back.
But if you want to learn about wiki markup, this page gives a great summary.
If you'd like to make a new page for a troupe, a show, or a performer, try using this troupe page, this show page, or my performer page as a starting point. Open up one of those pages, click "Edit", copy the text for in the edit box, and ta-da! -- you can copy that into a new page, replace text as needed, and you're good to go.
How do I upload a picture?
This is the page for uploading images. Fortunately for us, all the AIC photographers I contacted (Jon, Steve, Roy, Menelaos, Claudio) are cool with your using their photos on the AIC wiki, so long as you do three things:
1. Credit them in the picture's description.
2. Link back to the original photoset if you can.
3. In the "licensing" dropdown, select "The copyright holder gave me permission to use this work only in AIC Wiki articles."
For an example of following these three rules, look at my photo.
(Also, Courtney and Kaci are cool with having their poster designs on the AIC Wiki, under those same conditions.)
I want both "Hideout Theatre" and "The Hideout Theatre" to link to the same information. Does this mean I need to make two copies of the Hideout page?
Fortunately, no. You would handle this with something called "redirects". In this case, we've created a page for "The Hideout Theatre". Then we created a page called "Hideout Theatre" that only contains the following text:
#REDIRECT [[The Hideout Theatre]]
That means that all the "Hideout Theatre" page does is "redirect" to "The Hideout Theatre".
I have a problem with the site! Who do I call?
Either Kevin Miller or I can probably handle your issue.
As site administrators, we can do things like delete files, protect pages (meaning nobody can edit them), and even grant other people admin privileges, should you be interested in that.
Whew. That's all I can think of for now. Post any questions you've got to this thread, as other people probably have the same questions you do. I'll try and keep this top post updated with current information.
And lastly, *huge* thanks to Bob Apthorpe for installing this wiki on the austinimprov server. None of this would've happened without him.
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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
-- Chuck Palahniuk
