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--- adding_water_access_page [2026/06/12 13:37] – 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**