Do you need to register?

Anyone can read this wiki.

However, before you are allowed to change and add information on this wiki, you will need to request access to the wiki. We restrict the right to change and add users who are logged in, because we want to keep track on what was done and by who. This also allows us to get in touch with you more easily for further feedback and information.

By far the easiest way is to sign up for a pbwiki account. This way, you can manage your access to this and other wikis from one spot, using one username and password. After you have created this account, you can click on the "log in" link on any of these pages. You will then be offered the opportunity to Request Access. Once we have let you in, you can simply come back using the pbwiki account (no need to think of different passwords for different wikis).

Non-registered users can still see most of the wiki, but cannot contribute or access the restricted pages.

Navigate

You can navigate this wiki in several ways. links are provided within the texts, linking pages together. Tags attached to pages allow easy searching. In the right hand menu (the sidebar), a page structure is provided, and most pages are ordered in folders for easy access.

Do's & don'ts

This wiki works with a "wysiwyg" text editor. To get used to the way pbwiki operates you can practice on the "sandbox page", a page that is created with the sole purpose of trying things out. You can do anyhing in there; the page gets checked and cleaned on a regular basis.

Before you change or add to a page, please make sure you are clear on what the page is about exactly, and how it links to the other pages in the wiki. Also, please check the revision history of the page - this allows you to see how the page has evolved and if there have been discussions on the topic before. To access this information, please click the "page history" link which can be found in the top right hand corner of every page.

If you feel it would be useful to create a new page, the best way is to mail us beforehand explaining what the purpose of the page is. This avoids that we have to change or re-arrange pages, which messes up the links and logical structure. You are allowed to create a new page by yourself, but there is no guarantee that it will persist - we may copy your content into another location if we feel there is a more appropriate place for it.

If you want to work offline (or keep a local copy of what you write), it is always possible to first type text using notepad or a similar piece of software, and then to copy-paste it into the wiki. Please do not copy-paste directly from a word processor such as MSWord. Not only your text is copied, but also the underlying code that is added to it by the word processor. If you must copy from MSWord, OpenOffice, Pdf, ... please paste the text into Notepad first, and copy it back from Notepad into the wiki.

For those of you who want to learn more about pbwiki, joining a pbwiki webinar (or watching a recording of one) is a good place to start.

If you are in any way unsure of your change or addition, you can also simply leave a comment to the page using the "Add a comment" box at the bottom of each page. Alternatively, you can just drop us a mail explaining what you want to do. We'll be happy to help you on the way.

What happens to your work? 

Part of the TID+ philosophy is that what we do is available without restriction to all interested parties. To accomplish this, the software of the TID+ Ideas system is made available under GPL v2.0 and EUPL v1.0). This ensures that all further developments will also be available without restriction.

The documentation provided with the software, and gathered on this wiki, follows the same logic: it is made available to everyone. Using the wiki, we add to the experience with e-participation. This experience is relevant to all stakeholders, and needs to be freely available. Anyone will be able to re-use what you add, provided credit is given to your work. Concretely, this means that: 

• Whoever wants to reproduce or otherwise use information that is contained in this wiki may do so freely, but must make reference to the TID+ project and the wiki; the wiki - through the system of page revisions and usage data - provides the credits to individual authors. If you wish to claim individual credit for a certain piece of work, please explicitely include author information on the page you have created.
• Anyone can re-use the information on this wiki, add whatever they want to add to it and re-package it. However, the end result needs to mention the TID+ source and can not be made available under a more stringent license than the materials it is based upon. In other words, the TID+ work can not be locked in into a commercial product.

Of course, all this means that you as a contributor must also respect your sources where applicable. By using the wiki, you explicitely declare that you are not infringing on the copyright or intellectual property of others.