Overview
From Lehigh Engineering Heritage Initiative
A wiki (IPA: [ˈwɪ.kiː] <WICK-ee> or [ˈwiː.kiː] <WEE-kee>[1]) is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, and otherwise edit and change content. It also allows for linking among any number of pages. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring. For the Lehigh Engineering Heritage Initiative (LEHI), there are several ways you can add your knowledge of Lehigh's engineering history.
STEP 1: Search
Before creating a new wiki page, you should always search to make sure that the page does not already exist. "Lehigh Heritage" and "Heritage, Lehigh" would technically be two different pages, but would obviously be unwanted duplicates of each other.
STEP 2: Add
If you do not locate your page through your search, the top of the page will say "There is no page titled My Search Page. You can create this page." Click on "create this page" to open up a new edit window. You will be presented with an edit window that has a general template provided for your convenience.
NOTE: Your search phrase will be used for the new file name. Therefore, please try searching with the format "LAST, FIRST".
STEP 3: Edit
Enhancing an existing page within the LEHI wiki is equally as simple -- it's as easy as clicking on the "edit" tab above the page and adding information formatted just as you would to a new page. Best of all the system is set up so that changes can be "rolled back" if unwanted edits or additions are made.
NOTE: Do not use the BACK button on your browser at any time during editing or your changes will be lost.
ALTERNATIVE:
If you are uncomfortable with the ins and outs of wiki formatting, no worries -- just type your story into the text box provided, and let us know that you'd like some help with the formatting by contacting us via e-mail. For those Lehigh engineers who'd like to contribute to the Initiative but would rather avoid the wiki waters, there are other ways to share your stories. E-mail your story as a Microsoft Word document, and we'll do our best to recreate it within the wiki. For those who'd prefer to use an even more traditional method, please send us your handwritten or typed story to the following address:
Director, Communications & Marketing
P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science
19 Memorial Drive West
Bethlehem, PA 18015
