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Do you have information on how to start a parent group? We need it. Do you have information on BEING a parent group, five or ten or twenty years in? We need that information too, so that our younger or less organized folks can work toward goals.

Can you grant-write? We need your know-how. Can you help post some information or resource links to help parent groups, teachers, etc to apply for grants, or tutorials on how to do so?

Has your school created step-by-step guides to help create fundraisers and other opportunities for community building? Do you have email chains you can condense and edit that would contain such instructions? Can you post that information to help our schools who may not yet have that step-by-step information? I can guarantee there are schools that need it!

Do you have a pressing need RIGHT NOW for a donation of paper, folders, pencils, binders? Post it, and let us know! There may be someone in the community who can help! Please spread the word of this wiki to any and all of your neighbors, friends, business networking connections, anyone who may want to help or who may need help in their local OUSD schools.

Do you have a School or Community Event that is open to the District? Please put more information on the 'Community/School Events' tab!

You will find a basic school information list on the 'Schools' tab at the top of this page. If you have information that relates to a school, please post it!

You will find a basic list of needs and resources listed on the 'Needs and Resources' tab at the top of the page- if you know of a resource that can benefit a school, or have a need that needs to be addressed, please list it, and we will try to help you locate a resource!

You will find a basic tutorial and instructions for emergency needs on the 'EMERGENCY Subsistence Needs NOW' tab at the top. True Emergencies ONLY, please.

The point of this site is to get Oakland parents talking to one another, and to that end, there is a new tab here: Talk to other Oakland School Parents.

Below you will find the basic 'Wiki-How-To' information to get you started posting. It is easy, and you don't even have to login to edit if you just want your change tracked by ip address instead!

Wonder just what a Wiki is?- take a look at this very specific descriptive example: It's a YouTube link for "What's a Wiki?"

Thanks for helping!!!

We have had a couple of online mentions, and information has gone out in the OUSD newsletter!

Here on the Oakland Local Website. and here by Katy Murphy from the Oakland Tribune.
Even across the bay, SFGate also picked up the story!

If you have seen a mention, please link to it! We need to spread the word and make our voices count!

Welcome to your new wiki! This is your wiki's Front Page. So what do you do now?

1. First read the rest of this page!
   

2. If you haven't already, read the Wiki Creator Guide and Wiki Guide.
   

3. Go to Wiki Settings and change the settings for your wiki!
   

4. Click the edit button up top of this page and create your new front page.
   

5. Start adding content to your wiki and read about building community
   

6. Tell your friends, family, acquaintances, enemies, multiple personalities, etc.
   

7. Celebrate!

This is a simple list of of all pages included with your wiki. You will hopefully create many, many more!

• All Pages is an automatically generated list of all the pages in your wiki.
  

• Bookmarks is for your bookmarks on this wiki. Every user has his/her own bookmarks page based on what they choose to bookmark on this wiki. To bookmark a page, simply click "Bookmark" at the bottom of the page! (Interwiki Bookmarks on wikispot shows you all of your bookmarks on all wikis.)
  

• Front Page is the page you're currently viewing.
  

• Events Board is a page where anyone can post events in the community.
  

• Help links to the main help pages on wikispot — useful for reference.
  

• Interwiki Map — link to non-Wiki Spot wikis using interwiki links by adding names and URLs of wikis to this page.
  

• Orphaned Pages contains an automatically generated list of pages with no links to them. Ideally, this page should be empty — keep your wiki well-linked!
  

• Outgoing Links lists all pages sorted by the number outgoing links on each page. This provides a good place to start if you're feeling gnomeish and want to link-up some pages with few to no links.
  

• Quick Wiki Tips — At the top of Recent Changes shows randomly selected tips from this page.
  

• Recent Changes shows all the recent activity on the wiki in a given time period. This page lets everybody see what's happening in your wiki! (Interwiki Recent Changes on wikispot shows you the recent changes on all the wikis you're watching.)
  

• Random Pages is a randomly generated list of twenty-five pages. Good for finding pages to edit once your wiki grows large.
  

• Site Organization has links to pages that help you keep your wiki well organized.
  

• Templates is a user created list of template pages — pages that you can use as starting blocks for making new pages. Templates/Business is there just to give you an idea of what a template should be.
  

• User Statistics is a page that displays statistics, such as the number of edits, for each person who's edited your wiki.
  

• Wanted Pages contains all the pages that are linked to, but do not yet exist. This is another good place to start gnomeing.
  

• Wiki Sandbox is a place for users to play around with the wiki without disturbing your content.
  

• Wiki Settings contains the administrative settings for your wiki.
  

• Wiki Settings/CSS is the page where you can upload different style sheets that change your wiki's appearance.
  

• Wiki Settings/General contains general settings for your wiki.
  

• Wiki Settings/Images allows you to customize images on your wiki, such as your logos.
  

• Wiki Settings/Security lets you change the default security settings of your wiki and create user groups to control access.

To create a new page, simply search for the name of the page you wish to create and then click the "Create a new page with this title" link. Another way to create a new page is by making a link to the page you wish to create from a page that already exists, following the link, and clicking "Create this page."