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--- adding_water_access_page [2026/06/12 13:28] – Added editing other pages and removed top work-in-progress. bob
+++ adding_water_access_page [2026/06/12 14:36] (current) – bob
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 ======== Adding a Wiki Water Access Page ========
-This information is for a Coot that is familiar with a water access point, like a boat launch ramp, and wants to add this to the Coots' Wiki data base.  What you are doing is adding a page to the Wiki.  As soon as you finish the page, it is available to be read by anyone.  And any Coot, signed up for this groups.io group, can make changes.  The process of adding and editing a page is available to anyone registered with coots.org.  All that registration does is to check that the email is valid.
+This information is for a Coot that is familiar with a water access point, like a boat launch ramp, and wants to add this to the Coots' Wiki data base.  What you are doing is adding a page to the Wiki.  As soon as you finish the page, it is available to be read by anyone.  And any Coot, signed up for this groups.io group, can make changes.  The process of adding and editing a page is available to anyone registered with coots.org.  All that registration does is to check that the email is valid.  Hints for registration are [[http://www.coots.org/cootswateraccess/doku.php?id=start|on the main page]].
 **Create a new page**
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 To continue editing, go click the gray pencil in the upper right. The edit box should appear as you left it before the save.
+**Adding a Sidebar Entry**
+The new wiki page is not quite complete, as nobody will find it.  We need to add it to the list in the sidebar, on the left.  First, look at the side bar and see what geographical category your new page fits into.  Then go to the upper left and click on "sitemap."  This brings up a list of pages, and so go down to "sidebar" and click on it.  This brings up the sidebar as a wiki page.  To edit this, click on the gray pencil.  Hunt for the geographical category you need (they are alphabetical).  You then need to add your site as a line, such as "<nowiki>* [[toledo_yaquina_ramp|Toledo Ramp (Yaquina R.)]]</nowiki>".  Keep the length of the sidebar name "Toledo Ramp (Yaquina R.)" short enough to not cause a line break in the sidebar.  This is somewhere around 35 characters.  Your new site should now appear in the sidebar as a clickable link.
+If you do not find an appropriate geographical category...  (TBD)
 **Measuring Boat Ramp Slope**
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 <nowiki> {{:myPix.jpg?640|}} </nowiki> and cut and paste the text where you want it.  Changing the picture size is done by the width parameter, 640.  To make it smaller, you could use, <nowiki> {{:myPix.jpg?480|}} </nowiki>.
-Keep the picture size close to what you want to display.   Phone pictures can have huge size, and scaling them back in the wiki just adds to wiki backup size.  If the picture being entered is too large, dokuWiki will give you an error.
+Keep the uploaded picture size close to what you want to display.   Phone pictures can have huge size, and scaling them back in the wiki just adds to wiki backup size.  If the picture being entered is too large, dokuWiki will give you an error.
 Remember that everything that will be seen on the wiki page is described by the mark-up language.  This is all simple text and visible.  Once you get used to this, it usually becomes more convenient than WYSIWYG editing.  Copy-and-paste is very powerful in this type of editing.
-If you do not see the results that you expect from editing, the [[https://www.dokuwiki.org/wiki:syntax|dokuwiki mark-up language syntax]] probably will provide the hints that you need.
+If you do not see the results that you expect from editing, the [[https://www.dokuwiki.org/wiki:syntax|dokuwiki mark-up language syntax guide]] probably will provide the hints that you need.
 **Saving a page**
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 **Editing an Existing Wiki Page**
-In case it is not clear, the Wiki idea is that you can edit other people's pages!  Along with that goes a responsibility to be nice.  True as it is, that is not what this page address. If you are registered and signed in, you edit any existing page by clicking on the gray pencil.  After that, everything above is available to alter and save pages.  That increases the knowledge source size and makes the pages more correct and complete.
+In case it is not clear, the Wiki idea is that you can edit other people's pages!  Along with that goes a responsibility to be nice.  True as it is, that is not what this page address. We want to see how to do such an edit.  So, if you are registered and signed in, you can edit any existing page by simply clicking on the gray pencil.  After that, everything above is available to alter and save pages.  That increases the knowledge source size and makes the pages more correct and complete.