Willipedia:About

Willipedia is governed by the Willipedia board and hosted by WSO. It is not officially related to the college. Anyone can read any article, but only students, faculty, and alumni may edit (after logging into Willipedia with a Unix or AWC account).

Feel free to contribute! We want this site to become a definitive source of information about Williams, and an expression of the Williams consciousness. Articles, stories, and how-to's are welcome, and on nearly any subject: buildings, people, organizations, classes, computing, hiking, anything of, about, or near the college (though consider skimming the site policies).

To edit an article: click "Edit this page" at the bottom of any article. Or, click "edit" on the right-hand side of a section header.

To create a new article: there first needs to be a link to the article you want to create. You can edit an existing, related article to create that link -- just enclose the word(s) you want to be the title in double brackets [[like this]]. You will probably want to consult Wikipedia's editing guide to learn other useful syntax. Feel free to experiment in the Sandbox.

Willipedia uses MediaWiki, the same software that powers the free and famous Wikipedia. In addition, Willipedia uses the following MediaWiki Extensions, which let you insert cool components into an article page using only the textbox. Click the links to learn more about the specific syntax for each extension.

• Math: allows for equations like this:

<math> e^{\pi i} + 1 = 0 </math>

• Google Maps: enables Google Maps with little markers:

<googlemap lat="42.716644" lon="-73.2029" zoom="0" controls="small" width="300" height="200" type="satellite"> 42.716644,-73.2029,Mission Park </googlemap>

• LilyPond: lets you make musical mark-up like this (I'm not sure why there's so much white space):

<lilypond>c4 e g</lilypond>

• Easytimeline: actually not all that easy and not all that pretty, but it's there if you want it.
• MailObfuscator: if you put an email address in between <email> tags, then spam robots won't be able to see it. But people will. See, it looks normal:
  • <email>wiki@wso.williams.edu</email>