A wiki is a web site freely editable by the members of a community. The idea is to produce a “living” document that responds to users' needs. Wikis are especially well-suited to collaborative writing, and this particular wiki is intended to streamline the documentation process for the DUSEL LBCF S4.

This site is currently implemented using the DokuWiki, a simple wiki engine specifically intended for documentation. The site is located at http://zzz.physics.umn.edu/lowrad. Pages are freely viewable by Group members, but users must register for a username and password in order to edit pages (done automatically on the first editing attempt). No restrictions are placed on the users - this is just to provide a “signature” for each page edit. Past page versions are recorded and may be reconstructed later.

Users are free to create and edit new pages as situations warrant. Pages are written in a highly simplified version of HTML, described in the DokuWiki syntax reference. Images, tables and links may be included into pages, as well as source code snippets (DokuWiki uses GeSHi to format them attractively). Plugins are also available for including LaTeX code, etc.

If you want to try your hand at the syntax without editing a real page, use the playground page.

The overall site is administered by Prisca, and for now all questions and suggestions should go to her. This site has a hierarchical, directory-like structure of namespaces, each for a particular topic.