Editing Pages
To avoid loads of clicking about, this information is all on one page for the moment. It will probably be split into 4 or 5 pages eventually as it gets bigger.
Page 1: Signing Up and Logging In
In order to edit the content on this web site, you need to be logged in. At present, you also need to ask charles-wicksteed on Mattermost to make you an Editor -- this will change!
The user accounts on this web site are tied to the accounts on the Communications Hub. See below for more information about the Communications Hub.
To sign up to this web site, click the 'Sign up' link at the top of the home page. Make sure you click on the "SIGN UP WITH UK HUB" button first and ignore the name, email and password fields on the Sign Up page. You will need your Hub user name and password.
Logging in subsequently is done also with your Hub user name and password. Click on LOGIN WITH XR UK HUB on the Log In page.
At present, new users do not have the ability to edit the content until they are made Editors by an admin. The policy has yet to be worked out.
Page 2: Editing Pages
This web site runs on a software package called BookStack. Their home page is at https://www.bookstackapp.com/. We have our own copy of BookStack running on one of our servers in Switzerland.
The user documentation is at https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/. We won't duplicate that here, but we will add things which are specific to this site or need extra clarification.
You can edit the pages, for example to fix a typo, correct a link or add extra information.
To do this, you need to sign up and log in (TBD references across to the relevant page when they are made, see above for the moment).
Then go to the page you want to edit.
On wide screens a sidebar will appear on the left hand side which includes an "Edit" link.
On narrow screens, you have to click the Info tab at the top of the page to make the sidebar appear.
The editor accepts both Markdown and HTML. You may find that the page that you are editing is in Markdown or HTML or a mixture of both. For example in Markdown a bold word is indicated like this: **bold words** (rendered as 'bold words'). In HTML, you get the same effect with <b>bold words</b> (rendered as 'bold words').
For information about Markdown see: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics and https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax. You may wish to get yourself a summary of the Markdown codes by searching on the Internet for 'Markdown cheat sheet' -- there are lots.
For plain text content, no special markup is needed. Put a blank line between paragraphs.
When you have made your changes, make them visible by clicking Save Page in the top right hand corner.
Page 3: Creating New Pages
You can create a new page by going to the Book or Chapter where you want the new page, and clicking New Page in the sidebar. You can change the order of pages by clicking Sort later, which lets you set the exact order you want.
If you think we should have another Shelf or another Book, please discuss it on the appropriate Mattermost channel or forum first so that we keep some kind of coherence. (Each Shelf needs to have a note of where discussions should be held)
Page 4: User Permissions
We are still working out whether there should be degrees of permissions on this site. For example we could make it so that only certain users are able to create new shelves or books.
Page 5: About This Web Site
At present, this site is intended for the United Kingdom only.
Other Stuff
Eventually it may be helpful to have another Book here, eg:
Book 2: About Extinction Rebellion
Page 1: Sources of Further Information
The main public-facing site for Extinction Rebellion in the United Kingdom is https://extinctionrebellion.uk/.
The global site is at https://rebellion.global/.
We encourage everyone in the UK to sign up to the Communications Hub, which gives you access to chat, forum and cloud storage (online documents) facilities to communicate with other rebels. For security reasons, you can't just sign yourself up -- you need to contact a Tech Champion in your Local Group or Community Group. To contact a Local Group or Community Group, look at the https://extinctionrebellion.uk/ web site.