Help:Tutorial/Site Architecture

(http://www.nwmtbsa.org/wiki/Help:Tutorial/Site_Architecture)

This website has been designed to encourage members of the Scouting community in northwest Montana to collaborate and coordinate information. To that end, the same software platform used by Wikipedia, MediaWiki, a wiki platform, has been chosen to serve our needs. The primary architecture or layout of the site utilizes hubs to direct users to find specific information that is contained in articles. These hubs are shown in the left sidebar. Most importantly, the data or information is kept in the individual pages called "articles" that can be written or edited by any confirmed user.

Main Points

• Articles are the different pages available in this wiki. Anyone can write an article.
• Hubs are the five places where links to articles and other websites are shared with the community. The website administration controls the hubs.
• Categories associate different articles based on a common topic.