In Wagn, pretty much everything is a card:
Wagn organizes everything into cards. Wiki users might wonder, "Why not call `em pages?"...
- Numbers. Any Wagn web page may contain
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You may have noticed that you can open and close cards by clicking on their title (or the triangle beside the title). And if you're really paying attention, you'll see that some cards are included within other cards.
Cards can include other cards inside them, which has many benefits:...
- Reusing information makes it easier to keep current. When anyone updates
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When a card is open, you can see what is called its type to the right of its title.
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These types really become significant once you start trying to organize your information. We call Wagn's unique approach to structure "connecting cards" or "plus cards" -- joining two cards together with a plus sign to form a new third card.
Also known as connections or connection cards, plus cards are one of the core innovations of Wagn. The basic idea is that any two ...Examples
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Inclusion, types, and plus cards are fairly simple tools, but they open up some very powerful dynamic possibilities. For example, formatting uses those three elemental tools to create an elegant content management system. Formatting allows you to create default content and cardtypes, format page layouts, and more:
What are Forms?
Forms are patterns of content. Every day we encounter lots of formatted information: weather forecasts include temperature, cloudiness, humidity and so ...Examples
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And Wagn becomes a much more powerful management tool once you begin to understand its nuanced permissioning system:
Star Cards
Star Cards are cards that Wagn gives special meaning. They're called "star cards" because their names begin with an asterisk. For example, we refer to the card named *sidebar as "star sidebar".
That card's content "magically" appears on the sidebar of Wagn.org. The "magic" comes from the card's name; renaming kills the magic!
Some of the other star cards also relate to customization:
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Site name (appears in browser's title bar): Wagn Name of home card (if different from *title): Explore_Organize_Thrive
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More Features
If you're not finding what you want below, either we haven't documented it yet or you may have thought of something new. Feel free to leave a question or comment at the bottom of General+discussion, or ask around the Community. And/or if you want to get a little geeky, you can check out features and fixes we're planning or considering on Tickets.
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Accounts help manage Wagn permissions and make it easier to see who's doing what. Every account has an associated card ...
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Suppose you're editing a card and click "Cancel", or your browser crashes, or you leave or close the page without saving. Wagn will have saved ...
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With some cardtypes, you may be making so many of them that you don't want to have to think about naming each one. So Wagn ...
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All hosted Wagns are fully backed up and rapidly restorable. To back up your own Wagn, the easiest way at present is ...
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CAPTCHA is an anti-spam device - usually a little picture of a word that a user has to type in before submitting a ...
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Wagn organizes everything into cards. Wiki users might wonder, "Why not call `em pages?"
- Numbers. Any Wagn web page may contain
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Card Types are a powerful tool for organizing information on Wagn. Every card has a type, and that type shapes what kind of information goes ...
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On every card you can click on the Changes tab at the top-right corner of the card to see the history of edits ...
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With Wagn's inclusions, you can construct web addresses that are context-sensitive, drawing on all or part of the name of the card the ...
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Wagn's appearance, and even some of it's behavior, is controlled by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). You can override any aspect of Wagn's default CSS by ...
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The Sandbox Wagn has this in it's *css card, which gives a turquoise color to the top menu bar, open/closed ...
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Don't like the way Wagn looks? Customize! You can not only change color scheme by changing the CSS you can change the whole ...
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You can ask for information when someone signs up for an account, and have that information show up automatically on their ...
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Favicons are the little icons that appear in browser tabs, and Wagn lets you set yours to whatever you like
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Here's the *favicon for this Wagn:
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Wagn lets you determine who has permission to delete different cards and card types, and keeps the content of cards in ...
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Wagn provides a feed (RSS) of recently changed cards which you can subscribe to in web browsers and feed readers. There's also a ...
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What are Forms?
Forms are patterns of content. Every day we encounter lots of formatted information: weather forecasts include temperature, cloudiness, humidity and so ...Examples
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Google Analytics offers statistics on usage of your website. Wagn makes it easy to take advantage of this. To get a Google Analytics key ...
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Cards can include other cards inside them, which has many benefits:
- Reusing information makes it easier to keep current. When anyone updates
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Wagn makes it very easy for you to link to other cards in Wagn, or to other websites.
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Links within Wagn
To make a link to another card in Wagn, just put the link between double brackets. For example, [[Wagn]] gives you ...
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Wagn lets you watch cards, or even all cards of a given type. You get an email when other people change any of ...
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Gerry is an active member of the Wagn community, and he wants to jump in and help when people need it. So he "watches" the ...
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Also known as connections or connection cards, plus cards are one of the core innovations of Wagn. The basic idea is that any two ...
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To see a card's existing connections, click on the Related tab and look under Connections: +*plus cards: -- the connections themselves +*plus parts: -- the ...
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As with most wikis, Wagn can show you recent activity — just click on the Recent link at the top of every page and it ...
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Relative inclusion is just inclusion that uses "relative names", which are basically naming short cuts.
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User+*tform includes +image, +birthday, etc. prompting each User to upload a photo, enter their birthday, etc.
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Wagn lets you rename cards without breaking plus cards or links. That is, when you rename a card, Wagn finds all ...
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Wagn keeps a history of every change made to every card, including who made the change and when it occured, and lets you roll a ...
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Wagn makes it simple to link to create new cards, and to set default content values for that new card through the link syntax. (Note: ...
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Suppose you're building a contact database for Organizations, and you know that most (but not all) of the organizations will be in Oregon. You could ...
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Wagn can use a card's headings to auto-generate a table of contents on any card, or any set of cards.
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TinyMCE, the text editor we use for layout and styling, is extremely customizeable (e.g., you can change what appears in the edit toolbar). ...
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The Universal Edit Button is an icon 
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A lot of Wagn's flexibility hinges on putting everything into cards, and then offering a wide variety of views of those cards. Views ...
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You want to look at and create information in whatever way works for you, and Wagn lets you do that with many special URLs (web ...
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http://wagn.org/search/fruit http://wagn.org/card/new http://wagn.org/new/Support_Ticket http://wagn.org/new/Support_Ticket?_status=open (see setting default content with links) ...
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WQL, pronounced "wuckle", stands for Wagn Query Language — a query language based on an organic wiki structure. WQL provides syntax for finding lists of ...
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wysiwyg = What You See Is What You Get Wagn uses the TinyMCE editor for user-friendly editing of rich text, so that users don't ...
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