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Sand Box is a page just for playing around and experimenting with editing. To get to our home page, see The Improv Wiki.

If you click the "Edit" button at the bottom of the page, you'll see a screen where you can edit this page.

A wiki's text-editing capabilities are very, very simple.

You can put text into italic.

You can put text into bold.

If you use the name of a page, like Sand Box, the wiki automatically turns it into a link.

And you can make a horizontal line like this:

And this is a heading

To create a new page, edit an existing page to contain a link to the New Page. Save, and then click the link. The wiki will then show you a screen where you can fill in the new page. (Please don't fill in New Page, though. This way, it will serve as an example for how the process works. The red color means that the page doesn't exist and the link is an "invitation" for someone to write it.)

Please don't modify the text from here or above. It shows people the basics. Below this line, please feel free to delete or change anything you like. Experiment and see how to wiki!

Experiments

Whoa....?

Yep.

Another trick: you can type a URL and it automatically becomes a link. Like this: http://google.com.

forum!

Is there a way to create a link, such as http://www.google.com, and also label it with, say Google. Does Google work? How about Google?

Yes it does. Cool!

How do I make a link? I can just type like this then hit the save button? I will try. ____ Wow, this is superneat. The directions were very clear, and I had tried looking at another wiki page (not yours) and I didn't understand what to do. So people just add, and add their ideas? Can people erase other people's ideas? Not that I want to, but could a rude person do this? I'd try, just to answer the question myself, but don't want to step on any fritos. __ I will try and delete my above passage to see if I can answer my own question.

____ So I modified my above passage from "step on any toes" to "step on any fritos" and it worked. I will try and change someone else's comment now. I changed "Cool" to "Scool," saved and then changed it back. So this wiki assumes all contributers are good and well-intentioned, but if you can just write over someone's comment because maybe you don't agree or are just a jerk, how will you get an honest forum? Do I understand correctly?

The only protection against non-well-intentioned edits is the boringness of doing that plus people's willingness to edit them back out afterward. In practice, this hasn't been a problem on most wikis. Occasionally a vandal hits the original wiki pretty hard, destroying or mangling a whole lot of pages. Lots of people are so devoted to that wiki, they save copies of pages they like and put them back. --Ben Kovitz

experiment

Just testing how the editing interface works.

There are two possibilities. (a) Either it automatically takes me to the final page with my changes in it, i.e. it processes the input and then displays the page. (b) Or it could go to some transitory state, where I am thanked for my input and a link is provided using which I can go to the main page.

Let's see what happens when I save.

Interesting. It acknowledges that my changes were saved -- that's good feedback, and then it also shows me the final page. In fact this is how wikipedia and most of the other wikis also do it.

However, this is different from Ward's wiki which takes you to a simple thank you page. This thank you page contains a link which can be used to go back to the printed page.

I suspect the implementation of Ward's wiki is much simpler. It allows the editing function to be decoupled into a separate cgi, since it does not need to know how to render the page.

On the other hand if you go directly to the rendered page then the editing cgi cannot be decoupled from the rest of the script, as it must also know how to render a page.

--AsimJalis

I am just testing some various features of this Wiki. Are you bold or italic? With 2 apostrophes you're italic, with three you're bold. Got it.

Google Improv Wiki. We sure like Google here.

Seems rather simple. In fact too simple. The lack of ownership over the end product is empowering.

yes, and

I've got some questions, and I guess this is the place to put them? I want to know how to create a page for my improv group. How can that be made??