How to add an event to our calendar

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The following code will put a copy of the calendar centrally located at Upcoming events on your chosen page:

<calendar />

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S	M	T	W	T	F	S
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30

Events Upcoming

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There is only one operating calendar for the whole of the wiki, so the calendar will show events for all activities registered as 'events'. To register events in our Wiki's calendar, create a new page and include the following tags at the top:

[[Category:Events]]
[[Category:2007/02/23]]

(changing the date, as appropriate). Note that the date MUST be in the format yyyy/mm/dd. Single digits representing month or day will result in your event being ignored.

For example, you may want to generate a new event for the Polar Contest called 'Contest Start' which is, say, on July 12 2007 . To do do this, you would type the address http://ipy-youth.uaf.edu/index.php/Contest_Start into your browser, then hit return. This would give you a new page that is to be edited, and in this you would add the lines:

[[Category:Events]]
[[Category:2007/07/12]]

You would then check that your event has registered by going to the main Upcoming events page on the sidebar, and go to the month of your event (in this case July). It would have a link on the date you chose, which, when clicked, should lead you to your event page. If your event is soon but does not show up on the upcoming events, try editing the Upcoming events page (without actually making any changes other than, say, adding a space) and saving your edit. This will update the calendar immediately on our main events page, so all can see you event is coming up soon!

There were some teething problems getting the calendar function to work properly, and it is possible some bugs still exist. If so, please just send a quick email to cswingleiarc.uaf.edu describing difficulties you are having.