Help:Contents

The Help:Contents page has information that we hope you will find helpful while interacting with this website. You will also find a general description of the interface, content, and how to contribute your own ideas, thoughts, and knowledge. Maybe you were looking for EV related help. You can also Post any comments, questions, or suggestions you may have, or View Comments on the Talk:Main Page.

Sitemap - Main Menu

The main menu is nested, so the 'Bold main headings will expand when you visit them. This allows us to pack more links into the menu and should help prevent visitors from getting lost.

• Main Page - Takes you to the top of the website, just like the logo.
  • Community - Links to other popular EV communities.
  • EAA Chapters - Links to all the other EAA chapter websites.
  • Donations - no page here
  • Help - {=-- You Are Here --=}

• About SEVA - Is actually the Considerations page.
  • History - SEVA History page and links to EV history resources.
  • Mission - SEVA Mission is to Educate, Demonstrate, and Proliferate Electric Vehicles.
  • News - SEVA news may be outdated, might merge with current events.
  • Members - SEVA members, their roles, and contact information.
  • Current events - Upcoming and archived EVents in our area.
  • Meetings Minutes - Summary of our meetings, directions to the meeting.
  • Local Resources - List of local EV resources, dealers, parts, service.
  • Local Charging - Local places to charge your EV.
  • Photo Albums - Our Photo Albums.

• Vehicles - no page here - Focus on various vehicles.
  • For Sale - Resources to help you find an EV of your own.
  • Resources - Other resources.
  • Research - Research.
  • Electric - Conversions - Conversions is what the EAA is all about.
    • Production - Information about various production EVs.
    • Racing - Information about high performance EV racing.
  • Hybrid - Conversions - Again, we like Conversions!
    • Production Hybrids - Information about various production Hybrids.
    • PHEV Projects - Various projects to develop better Hybrids.
    • EAA-PHEV - The EAA project for converting theToyota Prius.

• Batteries - no page here
  • PbA - Lead-Acid - The most common battery in use for Conversions.
  • Ni - Nickel - Another common traction pack chemistry.
  • Li - Lithium - A very promising up and coming chemistry.
  • HFC - Hydrogen Fuel Cells, which are actually just another type of battery.

• Fuels - no page here - A new area for various fuel resources.
  • Wind - The only fuel resource page so far.

• Maillist - This is a special area, you can read and join the list from here.

What is all this Wiki stuff?

Here's a walk through of everything that you see on this and other pages at this site.

At the top and to the right side are functions for logging in, user preferences, watchlist, and a personal user page and user:talk page. If you are not logged in you will see a Create an account or log in link. Below but to the left side are links to the article and it's talk page, as well as edit, history and other functions if you're logged in. These are both mostly wiki things for contributing to this site, if that's not what you're doing then you can just ignore them for now.

The left side begins at the top with our logo, clicking on it takes you back to the beginning of the site. Below it are the navigation links to the main pages at our site, which will be describe in the next section. Below that is the search function, useful for finding things. The toolbox is the last item on the page it has links to things like Recent changes, which pages link to the current page, and other special things. At the very bottom you'll find information that pertain to this website.

EV related help from SEVA members

You can contact Members of SEVA for help, so we should probably spruce up the members page with our various areas of expertise. The Community page has links to many other online communities such as the EVDL ( Electric Vehicle Discussion List ) which is a great online maillist resource going back to 1991 with many active posters and even more subscribers who just listen and learn.

How do I use the Wiki Website

First you should create an account and login. This way you'll see all the functions that we're going to learn about instead of just a few of them. The Wiki language is pretty easy and powerful and looks good as plain text unlike that scary html stuff that requires a special webpage editing program. If your curious you can find a page with some format you want to use, like an image or bullet points, and click edit, then click show preview and you'll see the page, and below it the raw un-wikified source for that page, which you can edit and preview again. Most of the basic editing functions are on a toolbar at the top of the edit box. They include (from left to right):

• ''' Bold text ''' - three quotes ' around the text.
• '' Italic text '' - two quotes '' around the text.
• [[ Link title ]] - Internal link, it's red if the page doesn't exist yet, please don't create these two pages.
• [ link title ] - External link, they have a little arrow and box icon.
• ==Major Headline== - two equals = around the text makes it a Major Headline.
  • ===Sub Header=== - three equals = around the text makes is a sub Headline.
• [[Image:Example.jpg]] - Images, which need additional Help:Images.
• [[Media:Example.mp3]] - Media, which need more Help:Media.
• <math>Insert formula here</math>
• <nowiki> </nowiki> - Ignores wiki formatting.
• --~~~~ - Signature, for signing discussion on :Talk pages, like this. --Rjf 01:42, 24 Aug 2005 (CDT)
• ---- - This produces a horizontal bar, like the one below.

You can usually hover the mouse over buttons to see what they do.

Advanced Wiki Website Help

Until I get around to adding more here you can get advanced help at the WikiPedia:Help:Contents page, keep in mind that the Wikipedia Help is extensive as this external site is an encyclopedia.