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IMPORTANT Before we get going creating wiki pages the team or sub-team needs to thrash out standards/styles for our wiki.


IMPORTANT. DDVH members must edit a wiki page at least once a month to prevent it from becoming dormant. If this wiki is dormant for 180 days then it could be marked for deletion Easy to sort. Select "Edit" and change the following date to todays date and save: 22 May 2024.

The main purpose of creating Dry Drayton Village Hall wiki is for the 2020/2021/2022 Management Committee, other wise known as DDVH Modernisation Task Force (MTF) team, to create a resource that would allow future Management Committee member to quickly get up to speed with the DDVH-MTF team have put in place. Before we get going creating our Dry Drayton Village Hall private wiki the management team needs to get together or sub-team to thrash out some standards

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If you have problems accessing this private wiki from a Google Chrome web browser, do the following:

  1. Click on the three vertical dots in the top right of the browser and select "Settings"
  2. Under Settings select "Privacy and security" from the left hand panel and then select "Cookies and other site data" from the central panel
  3. Scroll down and click on "See all cookies and site data"
  4. Type "pwiki" into the search cookies bar on the top right
  5. Click on the bin icon next to pwiki.drydraytonvillagehall.org.uk

Welcome to Dry Drayton Village Hall (DDVH) private wiki!

To view and edit any page other than this page and login page of this DDVH private wiki you will first need to login.

You are actively encouraged to create new and modify existing wiki pages. You don't have to be the creator of a wiki page, as you all can make modifications as you see the need to any page. It's easy and you can edit in place by clicking the 'Edit' link near the top middle of each wiki page. This is the Visual Editor mode and it is essentially WYSIWYG editor. If you want to edit using the original Mediawiki mark up language then click the 'Edit source' link also near top middle of each wiki page. We should all strive to keep this wiki up to date.

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

This is the home page for the DDVH wiki. It has on a wiki farm hosted by Miraheze.

We decided to use MediaWiki for our new knowledge base as it is the engine that runs Wikipedia. Therefore it is very unlikely that MediaWiki project will go away. If it did there would very likely be migration tools allowing wiki pages to move to the new database engine.

Below this point is the introduction from the staff at Miraheze who provide wiki farm for our ddvhwiki!

This Main Page was automatically created by a wiki creator (a volunteer who created this wiki per a request), and it seems it hasn't been replaced yet.

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