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<big>Welcome!</big>
 
<big>Welcome!</big>
  
http://www.wiki.uni-oldenburg.de/angl-am is the url of the English and American studies wiki at the University of Oldenburg. The platform is openly visible and openly accessible. What do you find where and how do you use this medium?
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http://www.wiki.uni-oldenburg.de/angl-am is the url of the English and American studies wiki at the University of Oldenburg. The platform is openly visible &mdash; that is the big advantage over StudIP, and open to be edited as long as the community does not intervene &mdash; that is the major difference between the institute's wiki and the institute's official web page at http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/.
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===The left hand side links===
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To edit pages you have to [[Help:Account|open an account]] - you can do this even if you are neither student nor staff member. We invite contributions as long as they are subject related.
  
The most important pages are accessible through the links on the left:
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If you work at the institute - as staff member or student - you may use this wiki to
*[[Main Page]] is our recommended start page - the page provides useful research links, it offers you direct options to contact us, and it informs you about recent events.
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:*conduct your [[Courses|course work]] in the open,
*the [[Angl-Am:Community Portal|Community Portal]] leads to stable pages of university links, of staff and institute related links and of links provided by students for students.
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:*supply [[Materials|research materials]] you want to authorise
*Visit [[Current events]] for the calendar.
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:*make announcements on the [[Current events|institute's calendar]] or the [[Angl-Am:Site support|general note board]]
*[[Special:Recentchanges]] is of special interest to the administrators: you can use this page to monitor all changes within this wiki
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:*publish work of your own
*[[Help:Contents|Help]] leads you to a short manual helping you to edit pages
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*[[Angl-Am:Site support|Donations]] is a standard page, to be used to support this wiki (whatsoever this support might be).
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===The main page===
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Communication plays a big role within a wiki. You can
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*visit the [[Studienberatung|online Studienberatung]]
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*post your thoughts on our [[blog]]
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*communicate with your colleagues on the personal pages all people who log in automatically generate
  
===Open an account to edit pages and contact others===
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Sign contributions on discussion pages with four tildes <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>, and do not hesitate to contact us if you feel lost. (Our [[Help:Contents|Help]] links will offer a kind of technical manual).
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To get rid of the commercial vandalism we had been pestered with, we had to limit the edit option to those who log in. Once you [[Help:Account|open an account]], you can, however, freely participate. A group of friendly [[Help talk:Contents|administrators]] will help you with all wiki related questions. Use this site as a platform in your seminars, as an open [[blog]] and [[Current events|noteboard]], as your [[Studienberatung|online study guide]], or simply to communicate with your colleagues (there are personal pages and talk pages wherever you go),
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at your service,
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: [[Angl-Am:Community Portal|Your English and American Studies Team]]
 
: [[Angl-Am:Community Portal|Your English and American Studies Team]]

Revision as of 15:59, 13 January 2008

Welcome!

http://www.wiki.uni-oldenburg.de/angl-am is the url of the English and American studies wiki at the University of Oldenburg. The platform is openly visible — that is the big advantage over StudIP, and open to be edited as long as the community does not intervene — that is the major difference between the institute's wiki and the institute's official web page at http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/.

To edit pages you have to open an account - you can do this even if you are neither student nor staff member. We invite contributions as long as they are subject related.

If you work at the institute - as staff member or student - you may use this wiki to

Communication plays a big role within a wiki. You can

  • visit the online Studienberatung
  • post your thoughts on our blog
  • communicate with your colleagues on the personal pages all people who log in automatically generate

Sign contributions on discussion pages with four tildes ~~~~, and do not hesitate to contact us if you feel lost. (Our Help links will offer a kind of technical manual).

Your English and American Studies Team

Admins

IT-Support

  • Benno Hubert, 0441-798-4807 webpage