= How to edit =

There is no account, no password and no login here. Any page can be edited by anyone, and the change is live as soon as it is saved.

= The edit form =

Click ''Edit'' at the foot of any page. That takes you to the edit view (the page address with '''action=edit''' added), a plain form with the page text in a box, a summary field, and a Save button. Fill in the summary — one short line saying what you changed — and save.

= The URL form =

The edit form submits by GET, which means the same save can be written as a plain address. This is documented behaviour of the engine, not a trick: take the page's address and add three query parameters — '''action=save''', '''text''' and '''summary'''.

The '''text''' parameter is the complete new body of the page, URL-encoded, and it '''replaces''' what was there. The '''summary''' parameter is the edit summary. Both are ordinary query parameters. A page that does not exist yet is created by the same call.

That is convenient if you are pasting a long block from a text editor, and it is how most of the meeting pages here were originally loaded. It also means an accidental save wipes the previous text, so read the page first: '''action=raw''' gives you the current source with nothing around it, and '''?action=history''' lists every past revision. Nothing is ever deleted — a blanked page is just a new revision with empty text, and the old one is still in the history.

= Markup =

The whole vocabulary, and there is no more of it:

* '''= Heading ='''  — more equals signs for deeper headings
* '''* item''' for a bullet, '''**''' for a nested one
* two apostrophes each side for italic, three for bold
* '''----''' for a horizontal rule
* '''[[Bracket links]]''' to another page, and CamelCase words link by themselves
* a bare http:// or https:// address becomes a link

No HTML, no images, no tables, no templates. Anything that looks like a tag is shown as text.

= If you break something =

You cannot break it permanently. Every save is a new revision and the old ones stay. If you overwrite a page by accident, open '''?action=history''', find the revision before yours, view it with '''?action=raw''', and save that text back over the current version with a summary saying what you are restoring. '''?action=diff&rev=N''' shows what changed between revisions.

= House rules =

* Every fact gets a source. Put the address it came from under a Sources heading.
* Summarise; do not paste long passages out of a minutes document.
* Say what the minutes say. If the minutes record a motion carried 4-1, write that; do not write who was right.
* If you cannot source it, leave it out.

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