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We use it for
We use it for


* Votes/Vote proposals
* Votes/Vote proposals
* Meeting Agendas/ Meeting Notes
* Meeting Agendas/ Meeting Notes
* Recording Policies
* Recording Policies
* Hosting the Bylaws
* Hosting the Bylaws
* Note Taking
* Note Taking
* Systems Documentation
* Systems Documentation


== Wiki Usage Guides ==
== Wiki Usage Guides ==
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=== WikiBot ===
=== WikiBot ===


The [[user:wikibot]] makes [[Special:Contributions/Wikibot edits]] the wiki automatically, making simple cleanups and doing link verification. It's running based of the Pywikibot software.
The [[user:wikibot]] makes [[Special:Contributions/Wikibot edits]] the wiki automatically, making simple cleanups and doing link verification. It's running based of the Pywikibot software.


=== Sphinx Search ===
=== Sphinx Search ===


The default search in mediawiki does exact matching, but doesn't to lexicographical searches. We have [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SphinxSearch Sphinx Search] installed, along with indexing daemons that run hourly and nightly on the mediawiki server.
The default search in mediawiki does exact matching, but doesn't to lexicographical searches. We have [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SphinxSearch Sphinx Search] installed, along with indexing daemons that run hourly and nightly on the mediawiki server.


=== Visual Editor ===
=== Visual Editor ===


The [[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor Visual Editor]] Is a feature Media Wiki has been working on for a while, but still isn't perfect. Most notably it breaks pretty hard on Equipment Pages.
The [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor Visual Editor] Is a feature Media Wiki has been working on for a while, but still isn't perfect. Most notably it breaks pretty hard on Equipment Pages.


We run a [[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid parsoid daemon]] in order to process mediawiki content into a form the Visual Editor can work with.
We run a [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid parsoid daemon] in order to process mediawiki content into a form the Visual Editor can work with.


== Technical ==
== Technical ==