Photo Wiki - Bob Atkins Photography

This is the home page of the Photo Wiki hosted on the Bob Atkins Photography website. If you don't know what a Wiki is or how one works, the first thing you should do is visit the FAQ At the most basic level a Wiki is a set of web pages which can be edited by viewers. You the viewer can edit any page, create a new page or even delete a page. So the whole community of readers takes part in the construction of the site. Please see the TermsOfUse agreement.

The primary Wiki here is the EOS System Wiki and you should follow that link (or use the EOS links in the left navigation column) to get there.

Note that this is an experiment. There's not a huge amount of data here so far. If people participate it will grow, the more people who participate the more it will grow and the more useful it will be. Don't expect to find everything about the EOS system here yet. It's up to YOU to add what you know. I'll add things from time to time myself, but if I were going to do all the work, I wouldn't have made this a Wiki!

If a word is followed by a question mark (?) it means that it's a linked term, but that nobody has yet written anything about the link. So if you see something like "...SLR?..." (where the "?" is shown as a link), it means that the term "SLR" is a link, and that there's a page for defining "SLR", but nobody has yet written that page. If you click on the "?" you can create that page! If the term "SLR" appears as a link it means someone has already created a page for it, but if you click on it not only can you read that page, but you can edit it too!

If you're confused about editing and formatting commands, when you click on edit you see the source code for the page. This should give you formatting commands you can copy, plus there's a short help section at the bottom of the editing screen. See also the FreeLinks page for help on how to format links.

Any word with uneven capitalization (i.e. a word which contains an upper case letter followed by a lower case letter, where the upper case letter is NOT the first letter in the word) is automatically taken to be a link. So, for example DSLR will not appear as a link, but DSLRs will

Obviously there's the risk of malicious action by someone but since all changes are recorded and they can all be rolled back, anything anyone does can be undone! Nothing is ever actually deleted and the Wiki administrator (me, Bob Atkins) can easily restore anything that's been changed or deleted by a viewer. In fact ANYONE can undo changes made by anyone else. The idea is that since there are far more good guys out there than bad guys, the good guys win out in the end. Only the system administrator (that's me) can make permanent and irrevocable changes.

You can't break the Wiki or destroy information no matter what you do using the standard editing functions. Any errors you make can be fixed either by me or by another user. That's one of the basic Wiki features.

If you want to practice, use the WikiSandbox. It's an area designed for people to experiment in. Edit the WikiSandbox page all you want to. See what the editing commands do. Try making links. It's pretty easy to get the hang of it.

If you have any questions, you could make your own questions page, but I'll do it for you now. Here's the page - WikiQuestions - and all I needed to do was simply type the title as a Wikiword (mixed capitalization) and the page was automatically created!