STOP SOPA ☣ STOP RWA
Two bills are making their way through the U.S. Congress that would have highly negative consequences for AcaWiki and the public good. Please take action against both.
Many large sites are blacked out January 18 to spur action against SOPA. Visit americancensorship.org to take action against this bill, which is a censorship and security risk for the entire internet. Wikimedia's General Counsel explains how SOPA would hurt wikis.
RWA would prohibit federal agencies from conditioning their grants to require that articles reporting on publicly funded research be made accessible to the public online. This is unjust and would specifically harm AcaWiki by greatly reducing the number of people with access to important literature — access is required to summarize. Please tell congresspeople to oppose RWA.
See AcaWiki:SOPA-RWA for planning and discussion of this message.
AcaWiki:How to edit
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Thanks for helping us share academic knowledge! You can enter a new summary or to find a summary to edit. Want to know what to post? See our posting guidelines.
It might help to know some basic wiki syntax. If you've edited Wikipedia this will look familiar: AcaWiki uses Semantic MediaWiki, which structures summaries, so AcaWiki can do a lot of the formatting for you. Do you want to link to other summaries in AcaWiki, link to other websites, or use images in your posts? Read on!
Link to a summary on AcaWiki
To link a summary, or another page on AcaWiki, put the title in double brackets. For example, to link to the summary Medium Maximization, write [[Medium Maximization]]. The words have to match the exact title on AcaWiki in order for the system to match the link.
Link to another website
To link to another website, put the URL and title in single brackets. For example, to link to the New York Times, write [http://nytimes.com New York Times].
Using images on AcaWiki
To use an image as part of your post on AcaWiki first make sure you own the copyright to the image or that it's openly licensed. Second, upload the file at our upload page. Finally, write: [[Image:Example.jpg]] .
For more tips, see Wikipedia
We recommend Wikipedia's editing advice for more advanced tips, like how to add
- mathematical formulas
- positioning images
- tables
- spacing
