Scroll Saw Village

It’s Wiki Wednesday! Wiki Wednesday is an ongoing series providing tutorials on how to use the wiki and highlighting interesting articles on Scroll Saw Wiki (www.scrollsawwiki.com).  This week’s highlighted article is on Clubs & Organizations.

Local clubs provide an opportunity to share your work, exchange ideas, and enjoy the company of like-minded folks.  Often times they have workshops and lectures where you can learn new techniques.  But these clubs can sometimes be tricky to find.    Scroll Saw Wiki has compiled a list of clubs and organizations to make finding a club a little easier.  Take a look.  Maybe there’s one near you.

If you belong to a club on the list, take a look at the information provided and see if its up to date.  If there is any incorrect information, or you’d like to add more information, feel free to edit the document (click the edit button on the top of the screen).  If you belong to a scroll saw club and it is not listed, please add it.  If you’re not comfortable adding it yourself, shoot me an email at scrollsawgoodies[at]gmail.com and I’d be happy to add it for you.  Be sure to provide as much information as possible to give others a good idea of what you’re club is about and how to participate.  This is a great way to promote your club or organization.

See you at the next club meeting!

It’s Wiki Wednesday!  I’m starting a new series called Wiki Wednesday.  I’m not sure how long I’ll run the series, but each week I’d like to highlight a new feature of the wiki.  Hopefully, before long, you’ll be wiki experts and wanting to help out in this collaborative effort.  You can find Scroll Saw Wiki at www.scrollsawwiki.com.  Check us out.

This first video screencast, I’ll take you on a tour of Scroll Saw Wiki.  I’ll show you around the front page, explain what a wiki is and how it works.  I’ll also touch on some basic wiki navigation.   This short video should give you a pretty good jump start on using the wiki.  Enjoy!

I’m happy to announce a new feature to the Scroll Saw Village network.  Introducing, Scroll Saw Wiki.  Scroll Saw Wiki is a new scroll saw reference anybody can edit!  You can find this new resource at www.scrollsawwiki.com.

Scroll Saw Wiki operates on the same powerful software Wikipedia operates.  Anybody can edit, add info, or create brand new articles with ease.  The idea is to have a robust reference created by the scroll saw community for the scroll saw community.  It could house all kinds of information including equipment, scroll saw manufacturers, cutting techniques, different types of scroll sawing, types of wood, books, magazines, websites, blogs, and the list goes on.  If it has anything to do with scrolling, add it!

Editing and creating articles is easy to do. If the link is blue, there is an article already written. Any written article can be edited by anybody just by clicking the Edit button. If the link is red, there hasn’t been an article written, so feel free to write the article. You can do a search for a term and if it comes up empty, you’re allowed to create that article! Its that easy! And don’t be concerned with writing a brilliant article. Just write it and if it needs to be edited, someone will come along eventually and fill in the holes, fix grammar or whatever! If you need help, there’s some help pages on the wiki. I’ve also created a Wiki Talk forum at Scroll Saw Village (in the Help & Feedback section).  There you can ask questions, request articles, discuss articles, and organize tasks.

Have fun with this new resource. Hopefully together, we can create an awesome scroll saw reference that will benefit all scrollers!