Creating a New Team Page

This website is a wiki, so it is helpful if you know a little about wikis. That's the bad news. The good news is that when you edit a page, you get to view it before you save the changes. And you can always re-edit it. Read the following information carefully to help you set up a page without too much frustration.

Your Team Name

In our pages with teams, we have some regions (like North America) that will have subpages, like countries, and there may be subpages under them, like states. The regions are mostly based on continents, but not exactly. In 2006, under the USA, there were some states and some cities as subpages. That may happen again. What you should know is, in a url there must be a page created for everything after a slash.

For example, softwarefreedomday.org/teams/northamerica/NY/newyorkcity must have a NY page created before the page will link properly. For most things like this, the user can create the page. It will tell you if there is no such page. For example, if you have as a url softwarefreedomday.org/teams/ and you add sudlandia after the teams, so it looks like this softwarefreedomday.org/teams/sudlandia and hit the Enter key, it would tell you This page does not exist yet and you have the option of clicking on Create new empty page.

Because of the structure of this website, it will avoid problems if you use all lower case in the name of your country, city, or team. If your country, city, or team has more than one word, we recommend either writing it without the spaces, like newyorkcity or using underscores between words like new_york_city; you cannot use spaces.

To create your team's page, go the the teams page and click on your region. Go to the address bar at the top of the browser and add your team's name. If it doesn't work properly, please read the paragraphs above again carefully.