OrthodoxWiki:Community Portal

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Welcome to the OrthodoxWiki Community Portal! We're glad you've chosen to stop by, explore and take part in the ongoing work of creating and developing the world's first online community-edited encyclopedia of Orthodox Christianity.

Whatever else a wiki is, it is fundamentally about community, about bringing a group of people together for a particular work or conversation. You are formally invited to join this conversation and to take a role in shaping it. Your host is FrJohn, assisted by a team of sysops to help with the management of the site. Our sysops hail from many jurisdictions all over the world. Many thanks to everyone who has devoted some time towards making this place a valuable resource for people!

Join in!

Please feel free to start a new discussion by creating a new article or category. What do you know about? The life of a saint? Do you know some excellent Byzantine chant CDs? An episode from Church History? Share the knowledge! Have you read an excellent book? Post a review. See something missing? Add it! Want to adopt OrthodoxWiki in a language besides English? Let us know! Driven to submit a new logo? We'd love to see it!

Take a look at the numerous articles we now have in multiple categories for some ideas for what we've already been developing, but don't feel limited by what you see there, either.

If you're serious about helping us, please register. Then you can go to Special:Listusers and click on your name to create a custom profile page.

How to contribute

Hop right in—just click edit (at the top of any page or section) to begin. Read the help files for details on creating and editing articles. Be sure to take a look at the Style Manual for our official community standards and guidelines for articles. Test and experiment in the Sandbox. Also be sure to take a look at the Community Portal for news about ongoing projects and as a gathering point for our work here.

Don't worry about messing up or breaking OrthodoxWiki—your work can always be cleaned up and honed by others, which is part of the spirit of this project. Take a look at existing articles which may be similar to yours, and model yours after those. You may also feel free to grab relevant content from Wikipedia (it's under a free documentation license), "Orthodoxize" and expand on it, and then put it here (be sure to leave in only the links relevant to OrthodoxWiki). A lot of our starting content came from there.

The WYSIWIG editor helps with most browsers. We also recommend the Wikipedia Extension for Mozilla Firefox. If you're using FireFox, you can also make use of Live Bookmarks for quick access to Recent Changes, New Pages, or many of the other Special pages. An OrthodoxWiki search engine plugin is now available for Firefox and related browsers (see OrthodoxWiki:Searching for details).

This site is shamelessly modelled on Wikipedia. Please visit their Meta-Wiki for lots of information about how things work around here.

Community Life

Add your photo or browse the OrthodoxWiki:User gallery to see who's around these pages.

Some notes about wiki community living in general can be found at UseMod:BarnRaising (and Wikipedia:Barn raising)

To get a sense of how we're doing here at OrthodoxWiki, check out OrthodoxWiki:Statistics and Special:Statistics.

Discussion pages

Notice boards

Community Policies & Guidelines

Please note: Users are not allowed to have more than one account. This is not just to forestall funny business, but also to prevent confusion.

Copyright and Permissions

For lots more information, please see wikipedia:Category:Wikipedia_copyright.

Who's Who

Newsfeeds for recent pages

RSS and Atom. For new pages: RSS and Atom. Many other Special pages also have newsfeeds available (e.g. "popular pages", "users", "wanted pages", etc.). They're a great way to keep up with what's happening on this site.

OrthodoxWiki Images and Link buttons

Joe has released a small link-icon for OrthodoxWiki: Orthodox-wiki.png. Please feel free to plaster it all over the internet! You can save the image locally and then add it to your webpage using the XHTML code below (with no line break and the image path adjusted if necessary). You can make more buttons that match the color scheme of your website here or here. 

<a href="http://orthodoxwiki.org/" title="OrthodoxWiki: The Orthodox Open Encyclopedia">
<img src="Orthodox-wiki.png" alt="OrthodoxWiki" /></a>

He's also uploaded the "wiki theme icon" in different sizes for folks to play around with: fullsize, Favicon-large.png (32x32), and Favicon.png (16x16). Other contributions are always welcome. (We'd be happy to upgrade the graphics on the site if we had something that looked nicer.) Thanks Joe!

Internet Relay Chat (or IRC)

An official IRC channel has been created for the OrthodoxWiki. The channel is a place for live discussion about work on the wiki. Please feel free to use it as an addendum to wiki discussion via article talk pages.

Our channel is registered through freenode and classifies as a primary, on-topic channel because it is used to primarily talk about official work on the wiki. We are further classified as a Web Media channel, as we are an online community reference site. You can find out more about freenode at their frequently asked questions page.

IRC Clients

In order to use IRC you must have an IRC client. This is, generally, a small piece of software installed locally on your computer. IRC is sometimes considered the grandfather of modern instant messaging. You may be more familiar with instant messaging using software packages like AOL, Yahoo!, or MSN Instant Messager.

You can easily find a list of IRC clients available for your operating system. The following tutorial assumes you will be using ChatZilla as an extension to the Mozilla Firefox internet browser.

Using IRC with Mozilla Firefox

Step 1. Installing ChatZilla

An IRC extension can be downloaded for Mozilla Firefox. Follow these instructions to get started:

  1. If you don't already have Firefox, visit Mozilla's website and download Firefox
  2. After you open Firefox for the first time, select Tools from the menu bar and then select Extensions. The Extensions pop-up window should appear.
  3. Select Get More Extensions from the bottom menu options
  4. A new window should pop-up and should take you to Mozilla's Extension repository.
  5. Find the search box (possibly located at the top) and search for ChatZilla
  6. Select ChatZilla from the search results
  7. Select the Install Now option on the extension page.
    1. A prompt should appear, reading something like "A web site is requesting permission to install the following item:"
    2. Select Install Now
  8. Restart Firefox

Step 2. Using ChatZilla for the first time

  1. Open Firefox
  2. Select Tools then ChatZilla from the menu bar. This should open up a new window with ChatZilla.
  3. When you first connect to a server with ChatZilla, you are prompted to enter a nickname. We suggest using the nickname/username you have on the OrthodoxWiki, but you can user whichever nickname you like or is available.
  4. You should then see a command line with a blinking cursor. You will converse and type commands in this box

Step 3. Register your IRC nick

The command line is used for chatting and entering in software commands. To get the most out of your IRC experience it is probably a good idea to become familiar with some of the commands. Many commands start with /. So to execute a command you would type /command or /other-command. The following is a series of steps to help you register your preferred nickname when using IRC. There will be directions and then commands to type in.

  1. If you have not already, change your nickname to the one you would like register:
    • /nick your-preferred-name
      • your-preferred-name is the nickname you would like to go by, e.g. Spike, peggy, or IRCnewbie1
      • Be aware, someone may have already registed the nick you would like. The system will let you know if the name is already registered or if an unregistered user is currently using the nick
      • If someone is currently using the nick you would like, but has not registered it, there are a couple of options. One option is to choose another nick. Another option is to wait until they sign off, switch to that nick (using /nick your-preferred-name), and register it.
  2. Register your IRC nick:
    • /msg nickserv register your-password
  3. Add a valid email address.
    • To keep your email address private, first mark it as hidden:
      • /msg nickserv set hide email on
    • Set your email address:
      • /msg nickserv set email your-email@example.com
  4. Consider registering an alternate IRC nick, using the same password.
    • E.g. add an underline ("_") to your primary nick. For example, if your primary nick is foo, register foo_ as an alternate nick, if it's available.
    • While using your alternate nick, link it to your primary nick:
      • /msg nickserv link <primary-nick> <your-password>
  5. You could also configure ChatZilla to identify itself to nickserv automatically whenever it connects to freenode. This way you don't have to type in your password each time.
  • /desc can be used to briefly describe yourself to others, e.g. /desc Nick is a school teacher in Boises, Idaho. He has a website located at http://example.com
  • ChatZilla can do many more things. You can visit the Official ChatZilla FAQ for more information.

Step 4. Join the #orthodoxwiki IRC Channel

  1. Type /server irc.freenode.net or type in /networks and select freenode
  2. /join #orthodoxwiki
  3. When you are done chatting /disconnect

External Links

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