Getting Started

Introduction

Policies

FSWiki will largely adopt Wikipedia's policies. Please read regarding vandalism, plagiarism, patent-able information, harassment, etc.

Wikipedia's Five pillars
Verifiability	Civility
Vandalism	Consensus
Neutral point of view	Editing policy
What Wikipedia is not	Harassment
Image use	No personal attacks
Article titles	Ownership of content
Notability	Edit warring
Autobiography	Dispute resolution
Citing sources	No legal threats
Reliable sources	Paid-contribution disclosure
Plagiarism	Assume good faith
Don't create hoaxes	Administrators
Fringe theories	Banning
Patent nonsense	Blocking
External links	Page protection

Creating a User Account

Visitors must create a user account in order to edit pages.

Go to Special:CreateAccount to create your account.

It is recommended to use your real name and list your contact information, industry affiliation, University, etc in your user profile.

Editing your preferences in your user account does NOT display this personal information to the site. Users should create and edit their Special:Mypage by following that link or by clicking their hyperlinked username in the top right corner.

Passwords should be 10 characters long. This is the default MediaWiki setting.

Email authentication is required to graduate to User status and contribute to the wiki.

Creating a New Page

Formatting

A list of formatting options is listed in the table below. Please note these links take you away from FSWiki.

Link	Content	Notes
mediawikiwiki:Help:Formatting	Text Formatting
mediawikiwiki:Help:Links	Types of Links
mediawikiwiki:Help:Tables	Tables	Its recommended to use https://tools.wmflabs.org/excel2wiki/index.php to transfer excel tables to mediawiki
mediawikiwiki:Help:Images	Image embedding

Should I publish this?

Prior to publishing information, ask yourself the following questions:

1. Is this information patent-able?
   1. ... by me?
   2. ... by my teammate?
   3. ... by my professor or sponsor?
2. Do I own the rights to this information?
3. Do I need permission to upload this information?
   1. ... from my team?
   2. ... from my university?
   3. ... from my sponsor?
4. Is this information due to be published in a journal?

Some examples of uploadable information:

1. Lap data from your team's latest testing day
2. Team-redacted design reports
3. Code you wrote to import parameters from a CSV to ADAMS car
4. Wiring Diagrams of a team-built ECU

Some examples of non-uploadable information:

1. An academic paper behind a paywall, even if you've paid for it
2. TTC data
3. SolidWorks license codes
4. OptimumG Seminar slides
5. An ARB design currently in the patent process from a team member

Remember: you can ALWAYS cite something and externally link it.