Help:General Information

Purpose
This wiki was created to address some limitations of the current Mindworks website, mainly:
 * increase accessibility to both users (through QR codes) and contributes
 * standardize formatting and content
 * increased functionality of materials

The wiki was originally proved using the kaizen project for the summer 2013 Lean Manufacturing course, but has also been envisioned for:
 * senior design teams
 * postings for internships/jobs/scholarships/research positions
 * provide a living document for ongoing research
 * display professors' area of research and equipment/capabilities

Creating/Setting up your log in
See Wiki Workshop

Page exemplars
Kaizen project: Cutter_Types_(Mill), Manual lathe (Logan)

Snippet: 10_bit_rotary_magnetic_encoder_(AS5040)

Senior design: Band-Beesten_rolling_drum_set

Research: NA

Organization of site
Currently the site has three categories: Senior design, Snippets, and Kaizen projects. When created, all pages should be added to their respective categories. for example, if the page is a snippet page, add the following to the end of the page:

This will automatically put the page onto the Category:Snippets page.

Templates
The current templates have been created:
 * Checklist Table
 * Advantages/disadvantages table
 * Itemized/Step by step table

Developer's bulletin
The developer's bulletin is a page the admins use to release daily/weekly information about new tables, templates, guidelines, etc. We will notify users of the site about a new bulletin, but it is your responsibility to make sure your pages conform to the bulletins released.

Resources
Cheatsheet (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet
 * Note: the above link is for Wikipedia.org, which does their references slightly differently. Inserting underneath the 'References' section will not work. Instead use

Starting an article (Wikipedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Starting_an_article

Mindworks Page Editing Help: Help:Page Editing (Quick)

Media Wiki Manual: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual

FAQ: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ

Templates: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates

Installation of some extensions: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite/Cite.php#Installation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions

Page editing: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing_pages http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page

Tables: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Table