Open Source Catholic Wiki

Open Source Catholic is all about sharing tech and evangelization tools with other Catholics, and we hope that you will find something helpful on this website. One of the best ways to do this is through this wiki/book system - it is organized into a few different topics, with tutorials and instructional pages for a variety of topics, such as "How can my parish build a website?" "What are the best ways to promote our event/message via Facebook?," and "What are some good examples of Catholic websites?"

Any registered user of OSC can edit and save changes to the pages inside our wiki/book, and thus help others to find the best ways to do certain things online. Simply visit any page in the book, and you'll be able to click on the 'edit' tab to edit the page. All changes are tracked, and even if you mess something up (accidentally, of course), we can go back and change it back to an older version.

Guidelines for the Wiki/Book

Generally, anything that should be taught or shared with other tech/online Catholics for furthering the Gospel message of Jesus Christ, and is more of a 'fixed' teaching (i.e. not just some random thoughts on an issue), can be posted as a book page. Use your best judgement, and realize that some pages might be moved over to a blog entry or article if they're deemed to be more appropriate in those areas (also, someone's article/blog entry might be considered for conversion to a book page).

Please make sure things inside this wiki are geared towards a more general audience, and not simply towards too specific an audience (for example, don't speak only about one application of a solution—or, if you do, broaden its scope by giving more general guidelines to how others might be able to implement that solution).

Always be charitable, and try to reference any sources for your material. Illustrations, when possible, are always greatly appreciated!

How to Add to the Wiki

If you're logged in, you should be able to simply add a new Wiki ('Book') page, and you can also add Wiki child pages under main book pages (just click the 'Add child page' link on any book page, or select the parent page when you are creating a new Book page.