Introducing NYC Mesh Wiki
This page is intended as a catch page for people who follow old docs links which no longer lead anywhere.
NYC Mesh Wiki has replaced NYC Mesh Docs:
If you've landed on this page, you were probably trying to follow a link to something on nycmesh.net/docs. That section of our website has now been replaced by this wiki and the specific page you were looking for no longer exists, so you were redirected here.
You are now on the NYC Mesh wiki, our new central repository of information. We apologize we weren't able to link you directly to the article you were looking for. Please see the following information to help find what you need.
How to find what you are looking for:
Using the wiki is easy! You can either search for the topic you need with the search bar at the top, or browse individual sections with the sidebar on the left.
The Wiki is organized into Books, Chapters and Pages.
- Books organize overall sections, grouping related sub topics together.
- Chapters group individual pages containing information about related topics.
- Pages cover specific topics and may include various sections.
To search for a topic, click the search bar above and type in a few key words about your topic.
You can browse to different pages on a subject with the sidebar on the left:
To "Start at the Top" and view the whole wiki as a whole, click the NYC Mesh Wiki logo at the top left.
From there you can explore individual sections and topics, diving deeper into the categories with each following layer.
Why we made this change:
Our previous documentation section of our website (nycmesh.net/docs) used Github as the hosting and editing back end.
This was great for allowing multiple people to work on our website and provide edits, however it required knowledge of Github and some basic coding experience (markdown language) to use. It also required installing Hugo (the website engine) on your system and setting up a local copy of the website to test your changes.
Following feedback from our members that the docs were hard to edit and difficult for new people to use, we decided to move to a different system.
This Bookstack Wiki site allows easy editing from any device with a simple to use interface.
Anyone can make an account and contribute to the side, no web design or coding experience required. Please see How to edit the Wiki for step by step instructions.
The Wiki also has an audit log, allow previous revisions and changes to be seen, managed and rolled back to andif managed.required.
The goal of this change is to encourage more engagement and frequent updates to our documentation by making editing and updating them easier for anyone to do.
How you can contribute:
The Wiki is designed so that anyone can contribute, add and edit pages. We welcome both NYC Mesh volunteers and non-volunteers to help us keep our wiki up to date and add new pages. Editing is open to anyone who registers an account, all you need to do is provide your email address. (We won't send you anything, it's only used to log into the wiki)
To learn how to edit the wiki, please see How to Edit the Wiki.
If you find errors you aren't able to fix yourself or have other suggestions about the wiki in general, please provide your feedback in the #wiki channel on slack.