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 ==To request a new course wiki or to have an old one resurrected, please email Jon or Ernie.== ==To request a new course wiki or to have an old one resurrected, please email Jon or Ernie.==
  
-Course wikis are now arranged by the instructor's last nameWe will put links to course wikis that are active on the dept. wiki front page. You can use the "Index" tool to locate all the files under your name even if they are not linked on the front page.+Course wikis are stored in individual instructor folders in the "courses" folder on the wiki serverAt the beginning of a given semester, we will put links to course wikis that are active on the dept. wiki front page. You can use the "Index" tool to locate all the files under your name even if they are not linked on the front page.
  
-In the past many of the course wikis have used the username "student" for read-only access to the wiki. In the new wiki system, we have to give each course wiki a different username for the "student" account or they will have access to more wikis than intended. The default username we used in transferring wikis from the old system is the course number, e.g. "7102-002". The password is the same as on the old system.+In the past many of the course wikis have used the username "student" for read-only access to the wiki. In the new wiki system, we have to give each course wiki a different username for the "student" account or they will have access to more wikis than intended. The default username we will be using is the course number with the instructor name appended, e.g."7102keller".
  
 Please try both your instructor login and your student login to make sure they work. Contact Jon or Ernie if there are problems. Please try both your instructor login and your student login to make sure they work. Contact Jon or Ernie if there are problems.
  
-See the "Media Files" section of the User's Manual (right hand tab above) for instructions on uploading and managing files on your wiki.+See the "Media Files" section of the [[doku>manual|User's Manual]] for instructions on uploading and managing files on your wiki. See the "Editing DokuWiki Pages" section of the [[doku>manual|User's Manual]] for help making your wiki fancier (tables, lists, multiple pages, links to the outside world, etc.).
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