UT Wiki is a great space for saving documentation and other useful information. This page aims to provide a quick introduction to the Wiki space, convince you that it is useful in your everyday research and that you should actively contribute to the Wiki space.

To begin with, you can think of the Wiki as a cyberspace library dedicated to the group’s internal knowledge base.

Some of the more useful things to put in the Wiki space are, for example, instruments' standard operating procedures (SOPs), software setup guides, recipe books, and even miscellaneous items such as where to buy specific consumable items.

Having all the information quickly accessible on a website can be a great time saver for current students (trying to find things) and future students (trying to get up to speed in the group) alike. Saving these pieces of information in cyberspace allows them to be passed down to the next generation of students. This can potentially prevent a lot of unnecessary reinvention of wheels, as well as reduce redundant internal communication.

Maintaining the Wiki

On the surface, UT Wiki is just a Wiki site with numerous pages containing information. As group members, we have the right (and responsibility) to maintain these pages as well. Maintaining the Wiki includes multiple facets, such as:

• Creating pages: contributing to the knowledge base!

• Organizing pages: making the Wiki space organized and clean, so that info is easy to find!

• Managing user groups: giving new students access to the Wiki space, removing inactive users, etc.

• Managing user (group) permissions: deciding whether certain user (groups) can edit, view, or delete pages.

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In this link, you can find a lot of info on the how-tos of the UT Wiki system https://ut.service-now.com/sp?id=kb_article&sys_id=f9d65c7c4ff9d200f6897bcd0210c77e