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This wiki space contains archival documentation of Project Bamboo, April 2008 - March 2013.
A wiki is a website that evolves through additions and changes that users make themselves. With traditional web pages that solicit user feedback, users have to e-mail their suggestions to the site owner, who then posts the changes at their convenience. With a wiki, users can add information directly, and it immediately appears on the site.
A wiki shares many features with traditional websites: the fundamental unit is a page, pages may contain images and/or text, and pages are linked to one another in some way. Pages in a wiki are structured in a hierarchy: each page is a "child" of another page, and it too may have one or more "children"
Just as there are many different ways that traditional websites structure their navigation, there is no standardized "wiki navigation". In this wiki, we've included four different ways for you to get around:Breadcrumbs, Quick Links, Reference, and Recently Updated.
This wiki has specific conventions for when you should edit a page and when you should comment on it. Themes, directions, consortial models, and some theme collections are open for community contribution, and we encourage you to add your thoughts directly to the page using the conventions provided on those pages. If you have thoughts or feedback on non-editable pages (some theme collections, workshop 1 notes, or any administrative pages such as this one) you can comment by clicking on the Add Comment link at the bottom of the page. If you have a comment or complaint about content on a non-editable page, you can also let the "Wiki Gardeners" (who facilitate keeping the wiki in good order) know via e-mail: bamboo-wiki-gardeners@lists.berkeley.edu.
To edit a page, click on the Edit tab directly above the text. A toolbar will appear with the same kind of icons you see in Microsoft Word, and they work the same way. The procedures for adding an image, adding links, and adding rows to a table may be different than you're used to; we've set up a Community Design Wiki How-To Guide to answer questions about these procedures.
As much as possible, we'd like to minimize editing restrictions so the entire community can weigh in on the topics provided here. The only possible exception is theme collections, which constitute a more personal grouping of the data. If you would like to prevent others from editing your theme collection, please say so in the collection definition.
The {text you see in brackets} is "wiki markup", a way of editing that provides advanced features. Unless you're familiar with Confluence wiki markup, we strongly suggest that you edit using the default toolbar. If you see wiki markup on a page you're editing, please don't modify or delete it. It won't show up when you save the page, and it's crucial for maintaining the navigation of the site.
We ask that you link to external images or documents instead of attaching them directly to the wiki. You can find instructions for linking on the Wiki How-To Guide.
If you need to post an image or document on the wiki, please e-mail bamboo-wiki-gardeners@lists.berkeley.edu with the item and the URL of the page where you want it attached, and we'll do it for you.
We've put together a Wiki Guidelines page for Bamboo community participation.
The Bamboo Project uses Confluence, a wiki engine built by a company called Atlassian, located in Australia.
As of the time this FAQ answer was last modified: Firefox 2.0.x and Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0 are fully supported. Firefox 3.0 has not been tested by Atlassian, the vendor of Bamboo's wiki software, but is expected to work "without any major problems." Some versions of Safari and Opera are partially supported (no "Rich Text" editing). These are limitations of Confluence, the wiki software used by Project Bamboo. The vendor's browser-compatibility page is the best source of current information.
Our local how to use this site page is an orientation to the wiki environment created especially for the Project Bamboo community. Atlassian's Confluence features page might be another good place to start. On the Atlassian site you can see the many pieces of functionality offered by this wiki software; each feature is linked to a page that explains its usage. Not all features are enabled in the Bamboo Planning wiki space.
The Community Design Wiki How-To Guide describes several editing operations that are of special interest to Project Bamboo participants, and includes screen-shots for illustration.
When logged in, you'll notice a star and an envelope icon in the upper left corner of wiki pages. Clicking the envelope icon adds the page to your watch-list. You will receive e-mail notification when the page on your watch-list is changed or when someone comments on the page. Clicking the star icon allows you to mark a page as a favorite; you can view a list of your favorites at the bottom of the right side of the dashboard page when you are logged in.
Our wiki cannot send e-mail notices of new blog posts (this is a limitation of Confluence, the software used to power our wiki). However, if you use an RSS reader you can create a feed for wiki content you wish to track by creating a custom feed from the Feed Builder (instructions). (Not familiar with RSS-readers? One convenient way to view news via RSS if you regularly visit the Google home page is to use the Google Reader widget on your iGoogle home page.) If you don't want to create your own feed, you can use this link to a pre-made RSS 2.0 feed URL - simply copy the link location / shortcut (using right-click in your browser) and paste the URL into your RSS reader to get a feed of the most recent 5 news posts of the past ten days in RSS 2.0 format. It is not necessary to log in (and therefore not necessary even to have an account on the Project Bamboo Planning Wiki) to receive an RSS or Atom feed of publicly viewable news posts.
We ask that you link to external images or documents instead of attaching them directly to the wiki. You can find instructions for linking on the Wiki How-To Guide. If you need to post an image or document on the wiki, please e-mail bamboo-wiki-gardeners@lists.berkeley.edu with the item and the URL of the page where you want it attached, and we'll do it for you.
If you need to remove a page from the Planning Wiki, please e-mail bamboo-wiki-gardeners@lists.berkeley.edu. Please include the URL of the page you would like to have removed. If others have contributed to the page, please include an explanation that will help us to understand how others' contributions will / should / should not be preserved.
Gliffy.com is a commercial company that has developed software for building diagrams on the web. They also developed a Confluence plugin, which was installed on the Bamboo wiki in May 2009. Check out the company's website for more info. The Gliffy macro - which is the way a Gliffy diagram is included on a wiki page - is described in the "Notation Help" guide available when editing in Wiki Markup mode. While we're on the topic, here is a step-by-step guide for exporting and importing Gliffy diagrams from one Confluence wiki instance to another (thanks to the Kuali Student team for providing this to their Bamboo colleagues):
As of September 2008, all access to the Project Bamboo wiki is secured by https. This protects the passwords of users when they log in.
Please use the new URL, which is the URL for which the Project Bamboo wiki's security certificate is issued. The correct URL to use is https://wiki.projectbamboo.org. If you use the old URL with https (wikibamboo.uchicago.edu) you will likely see a notice from your browser indicating that the URL does not match the site's security certificate; there's nothing harmful about this, but you may find it annoying. The remedy is to use the correct URL: https://wiki.projectbamboo.org.
Anyone can view the wiki's content. By signing up for an account (click the "Sign Up" link) and logging in, anyone may also comment on and edit the Community Design pages (see Contribute to the wiki).
As of August 2008, the "Bamboo Participant" wiki space was combined with the "Bamboo Public" wiki space to create the "Planning Wiki" space.
Navigate to the password-change screen (after you log in) by clicking Preferences in the upper right of the screen, clicking the Edit Profile tab, then clicking the Password link. You will be asked to supply your current password, and to type your new password twice (the second time is to confirm that you typed what you think you typed...).
Follow these steps:
Follow these steps:
Unless the e-mail tells you otherwise, the e-mail address at which you received the notice is your "user ID." No one knows your password when the account is first created; you gain access to the password by following these steps:
1. Go to the login screen (if already there, skip this step; if not, click "Log In" in the upper right corner of the page).
2. At the lower right of the login screen, click on the Forgot password? link. (You didn't actually forget anything; this is how one can obtain an automatically-generated password).
3. On the page that appears, enter your username (this will be your e-mail address - the one at which the wiki-account notification e-mail was received - using all lower-case letters).
4. Click the Send it to me button, and a password will be sent to your e-mail address.
5. Return to the login screen: go to http://wikibamboo.uchicago.edu/display/BPUB and click "Log In" in the upper right corner of the page.
6. Enter username and the password you received in your email
7. After logging in, please change your password right away! You can reach the password-change screen (after you log in) by clicking Preferences in the upper right of the screen, clicking the Edit Profile tab, then clicking the Password link.
8. After changing your password, click "Dashboard" in the upper left of the wiki page (on the "breadcrumb") to return to the page from which you can access the Planning Wiki space.