The federated wiki is kind of like an airplane. You can learn to taxi it and get around the airport pretty easily. Of course taxiing around the airport with a jet is probably not the most efficient way to move around on the ground. However, if you want to fly and you want to do barrel rolls and you want to get places fast and far then you need more skills than just taxiing. Today hopefully you’ll become proficient at taxing. Later you can get in the air safely.
On another note if you do use a Fedwiki regularly for your writing, I guarantee you it will make you a better writer a better communicator and a better thinker--even while taxing.
**Initial Goals:**
* [ ] 1 Own a fed wiki site that you know how to access.
* [ ] 2 Ability to create a page, enter and edit text, and rearrange paragraphs. "Create" New Page" Command Text Editors
* [ ] 3 Ability to fork a page into your site. See Page Sharing
* [ ] 4 Ability to copy or move paragraphs between pages. Moving Paragraphs
* [ ] 5 Own and operate rosters of team members' FedWiki sites. See Roster Plugin See a list of StS Neighborhood Rosters you can simply drag and drop onto any of your FedWiki pages. Perhaps the Welcome Page for frequently used neighbors.
There can be multiple rosters in a single place. Just separate the site names with a heading followed by a blank line.
StS Neighborhood Rosters nes.marc.tries.fed.wiki nes.kerry.tries.fed.wiki jender.vision.fed.wiki denise.tries.fed.wiki claudius.tries.fed.wiki johnv.tries.fed.wiki Placeholder for another Roster
* [ ] 6 Create your own Index Pages for keeping track of content. It is just an appropriately named page with a list of hyperlinks to your pages. You can use headings to make sense of longer lists.
> See Kerry's Index Page: Access Contents Page
Of course Recent Changes and Search Neighborhood go a long way to finding what you are looking for--if it is in the current neighborhood.
* [ ] 7 For extra points, pick a nice Favicon (colored square) for your site.
Look at the StS Team roster under item # 5. The folks with brown icons have not selected their own colored icon. If yours is still brown, please select a more distinguishable color. :>)
> See About Flagmatic Plugin Choose a flag that you like. The flags are color gradients that we use in lots of places. We picked gradients, you pick colors.
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# StS Team Members completing above seven steps.
* [ ] Claudius van Wyk 
* [x] Denise Brouder
* [ ] Jennifer Driscoll
* [x] John Vodonick
* [x] Kerry Turner
* [x] Marc Pierson
* [ ] Mick Ashby
* [x] Richard Knowles
* [x] Sarah Vallet
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**RESOURCES:** Learning to Use FedWiki
Kerry's main site ] is a great example of using the FedWiki.
For an example of content delivery in FedWiki see:
Riding Dynamics, Kerry's book is now interactive having been moved into the FedWiki.
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