Introduction to the WSRT Operations Wiki

This page contains the introduction to the WSRT Operations Wiki and the guidelines to use it. Users must be familiar with the guidelines before adding or updating information in this Wiki.

A Wiki is a place to share information among a group of people. Information is not created by itself; instead, people must create the information so other people can benefit from the shared knowledge. The other people can then use their own knowledge to update existing or add new information. A wiki is therefore a highly dynamic information exchange platform. That some information will be outdated is unavoidable; please inform the administrator if you encounter outdated infomation, this helps us to keep the Wiki as up to date as we can.

The goal of this wiki is to bring together information which is relevant for people who use, maintain and operate the WSRT telescope. All people active in one of these fields are encouraged to register and share their knowledge of, and experience with the WSRT. You can register on the page you'll see when clicking on the 'log in' link here, or at the top right of this window.

Every Wiki has its own syntax for text markup. Something one just needs to get acquinted to… For this Wiki, a brief explanation can be found here, or, when you open a edit page, through a link ('syntax') provided at the top of your screen. The edit page has some short-cut buttons that you can for markup, sectioning, creating links, creating lists, inserting an image or attaching a document. It even has spell-checking options.

There are some simple rules we impose to users:

• All information should be in English
• Large documents can be attached. We prefer attached documents to be in pdf-format so they are viewable and printable by most users.
• Images are preferred as either jpg, gif, svg or png, as these are supported by nearly all browsers.

We strive towards a more-or-less uniform presentation of information. We therefore like to see a uniform page layout and navigation style.

Most of the pages will simply be pages that lay out the tree structure leading to the desired documentation; these pages contain mostly links to other pages, and thus I call these link pages. The preferred style for a link-page is given on this page.

A document-page, on the other hand, contain mostly useful information. Of course, it will also contain some links but its main goal is not re-direct the reader, but to inform the reader. These pages may be referenced from several other (link) pages. The preferred style for a document-page is givene on this page.

Detailed documantation (i.e. pages with lots of text) should be at the lowest level.