# Help

Documentation and help pages for various things Woodbine:

- Wiki 
    - This is the software you're looking at right now. It allows us to store and organize documents without depending on google or other commercial services.
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# Wiki Help

Help pages for wiki.woodbine.nyc

Pages to reference on old wiki: [https://basement.woodbine.nyc/help#](https://basement.woodbine.nyc/help)

# Wiki Introduction

A wiki (WICK-ee) is a collaboratively edited and managed web site. A typical wiki contains multiple pages that can either be edited by the public or limited to use within an organization. Wikipedia is the most well-known example.

Wikis don't have a default structure, allowing one to emerge according to the needs of the users. We get to collectively define the structure and tone and look of this site.

### Why a wiki?

##### User-defined structure

Because of their lack of default structure, a wiki allows a bunch of people to add what's important to them. Sometimes this means multiple people refining a single page, sometimes it means groups of people making pages they care about, which are later tied together into a browsable site.

(TODO: illustrated examples)

##### Self-hosted

This wiki is "self-hosted." This differs from depending on commercial services like Google, in that we control many aspects related to privacy and security:

- User data privacy 
    - We don't have to share user information, and can collect as little as is necessary to make the site work.
    - We rent server space. We can decide to host the site and site data wherever we want to.