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This manual is designed to provide an orientation to Wikis in general and orientation to the specific features of this wiki. 

Creating An Account

== Wiki Basics ==
=== What is a Wiki? ===
Wikis are a collaborative 
* [[Help:Getting started with Editing|Getting started with Editing]]
* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents MediaWiki User Manual Table of Contents]
* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Contents MediaWiki Technical Manual Table of Contents]

== PGCMLS - KNEXT Prototype ==
* [[Help:Orientation and Training Guide|Orientation and Training Guide]]
* [[Help:KNEXT concepts and structural guide|KNEXT concepts and structural guide]]

=== User Roles and groups ===
Wiki's have [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:User_rights_and_groups default roles and groups] in access permissions.

* Public User - (all) - does not create an account, anyone who views the site.
* Users – applies to all logged-in users. Any account with this role can edit pages without additional restrictions.
* Administrators – are an added role to Users who then are able to delete, user blocking, page protection, and editing the interface
* Bureaucrats – are an added role to Users with permissions to assign/revoke user groups
* Bots – are a role assigned to accounts used for automation allowing users to hide these edits from recent changes or watchlists.


== About ==
The KNEXT wiki is built on [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki] which is the open source software powering [https://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia]. Skills developed here can be applied to Wikipedia editing and many tools that are available on Wikipedia might be found here as well. This site is not part of nor affiliated with Wikipedia or Wikimedia. 

Issues and feature requests should be directed to [mailto:knext-research@umd.edu knext-research@umd.edu].

[https://knext.ischool.umd.edu/ KNEXT] is a project of the University of Maryland and Kent State University and this project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/lg-71-17-0124-17 LG-71-17-0124-17].

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