A wiki is a kind of collaborative website where users can easily edit and add information. If you've ever used wikipedia, you've experienced a wiki.
Wikis are wonderful collaborative tools and since anyone can add or edit information, the content will grow faster than if one person was responsible for updating and changing the site. A nice feature of the Wiki concept in sharing recipes is that you can add comments about how a recipe turned out or how you may have altered it.
Just like any website--you can click on anything that looks like a hyperlink (underlined and in blue). The sidebar contains the table of contents and is the same on any page.
You can type any text in the search box (Upper right corner) and get a list of pages containing that term. Great for searching recipes by ingredient. Try it out: type 'apple' in the box. (You will get to the page for the Butternut Squash Soup recipe)
The PBwiki folks are working to improve the output of wiki pages to pdf and word files. Right now it's a little buggy. If you want a particular recipe, you can go to its page and click 'print preview' on your internet browser (under 'file'). You should be able to print right from there. I will also try to save each recipe as a file. You can access the files (MSword format) by clicking on the 'files' tab in the top navigation bar.
Just hit 'edit' on any page and use the tools in the header like you would use a word processor. It's easy. And you don't have to worry about making mistakes because with a wiki, users can always roll back the page to a previous version.
Don't forget to hit 'save' (at the bottom of the page) when you're done editing!
Just hit 'new page' from any existing page and the wiki interface will walk you through creating a new page for the wiki.
If you want to add a recipe or other farm-related information and don't feel comfortable using the wiki, just email me the content and I can add it for you.
I have step by step instructions with screen shots on how to add a new recipe here
That can feel a little trickier, but it's really not hard. Let's say you want to add a recipe for salsa. If there is a page for tomato recipes, you can link the word tomato to that page by highlighting 'tomato' and clicking 'link'.
A window will pop up, walking you through the linking process.
If that feels too daunting, just email me and let me know what you want to do and I can fix it.