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MediaWiki has been installed.

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

Getting started

1. Log into the wiki using the student account info announced on Canvas.

2. Fool around until you can upload an image and edit comfortably. I recommend trying things out on your user page - click on your username in the top right to go to your user page.

3. Create a page for your topic. You can create a new page by typing its new name into the search bar and clicking "Go". You will then be presented with an option to create the new page if it doesn't exist. The first line should read "By Firstname Lastname".

General rules

1. Don't mess with other peoples' pages, follow all Dartmouth computing policies (and use common sense).

2. Please don't modify this particular page.

3. Use citations where appropriate, in Wikipedia-style footnote format (see here for an example). It's important that we see your sources. The citation itself can be in APA or your standard format of choice; we won't deduct for a missing comma and the like. Please make URLs links.

4. You may use links to wikipedia pages to define simple terms in-line. I.e. "____ is a type of neural network (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network) which ...". Do NOT do this for project-relevant terms which you should be defining yourself.

5. The length should be the same as a typical mature Wikipedia entry.

6. Figures are not required, but should be used if they will increase understanding and/or are directly related to your topic.

7. You do not need to hand in a separate copy of your wiki - we will grade directly off this site. You can continue to build your page from now until the deadline. Editing permissions may be disabled after the deadline.

Editing tips

Note: This wiki may be turned off temporarily between 8am and 9am any day of the week. Please do not edit during this period - we may need to update or reboot the server.

You can edit once logged in by clicking the "Edit" button at the top. ALWAYS KEEP A BACKUP of whatever you enter, perhaps in a word doc. Don't forget that you can upload images by clicking "upload file" in the left navigation bar, then display those images in your page!

This page is a good example of how to format things.

You can see every single page on this wiki (minus user pages) by going here: Special:AllPages