Introduction

This is Introductory information related to the Wiki Community site for the town of HAHNDORF usually known as 'The Hahnwiki' .

Hahndorf is a small historical town located in the Adelaide Hills Region of South Australia, Australia.

'The Hahnwiki' is a combined interconnected community effort documenting, exploring and discussing anything and everything concerning the town of Hahndorf.
It is also a resource for organisations, clubs, individuals, and others within the Hahndorf community. This facility is intended for general non-commercial use by anyone within the community.

This 'Introduction' sets out the scope, objectives and restrictions associated with 'The Hahnwiki'.

Please do not hesitate to utilise and contribute to 'The Hahnwiki' and keep the contents up-to-date. It is only as good and effective as the input provided.
Your participation is sought and is considered highly desirable.

If this is your first visit, please check out the Guide and Help for Wiki Operations pages.

'The Hahnwiki' currently contains a total of 155 pages

A Wiki is a linked set of pages which anyone can edit and expand. This freedom allows for unique expression and helps foster interesting and new ideas in a dynamic manner.
Generally, if you see something you think is inaccurate or incorrect, you have the power to change it. If you see that something is incomplete, you can add more information. You can also create completely new content and tie it into the rest of the site. Likewise, others have the power to veto your changes. It is a delicate balance but one which ultimately leaves the users with the content they most want.

Definition - "A Wiki or wiki (pronounced wǐkē, wēkē or vēkē) is a website (or other hypertext document collection) that allows users to add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows anyone to edit the content. 'Wiki' also refers to the collaborative software used to create such a website". Wiki Wiki is a Hawaiian term meaning 'quick' or 'informal'.

'The Hahnwiki' needs your help and it doesn't involve money
(although donations towards the operating costs would be gratefully received at any time).
With your help, we can make 'The Hahnwiki' a really worthwhile and useful site for the whole Hahndorf community.

Please feel free to edit, poke around, improve, delete or add anything you feel needs doing. Go on, you know you want to!
Note that you must be logged-in before any alterations and/or additions can be made. Refer to the Hahnwiki Guide for details on how to do this.

After reading this 'Introduction' and the Hahndorf Wiki Guide and Help page, please go to the Front Page of 'The Hahnwiki' to start your adventure and explore, create, add to, or edit the contents contained herein. You will learn what others have done and are doing in our town to the benefit of the Hahndorf community. Please add any information which you consider may be of interest and/or benefit to others.
Consider creating your own 'home page' to let others know about yourself and what you do, or have to offer.

Please tell your friends and associates about 'The Hahnwiki'. The more people who can help and contribute, the better the information.

If you have any suggestions, queries or other matters (including help) concerning this project, please add them to the Comments and Notices page, or contact Tony Finnis at finnis@internode.on.net

Please enjoy and experiment.

Please feel free to add to/correct/revise any existing information whenever considered necessary or desirable.
Experiment as much as desired and have a play around in the WikiSandBox to see what happens. Perhaps someone would like to set-up a 'Discussion Page' or 'News' or 'Coming Events' pages.
Its up to you - the Hahndorf community.

As the facility is of a flexible and experimental nature and is subject to continuous modifications and additions, it cannot be guaranteed to be operational at all times and may not be available for extended periods - so please be patient.

'The Hahnwiki' can be utilised by anyone within the Hahndorf Community to add comments to or improve existing material, and/or to create, edit and exhibit their own information on the Internet (World Wide Web) without knowing anything about websites.

Any reasonable community or personal use is permitted provided that all of the following conditions are met.

• You are located in, associated with, or are a resident of Hahndorf.
  

• You are NOT using it directly for profit making commercial activities, although 'links' to such sites are permitted.
  

• Your activities are directly related to or associated with the Hahndorf community.
  

• You have created and logged-in with a valid User Name and password. (not required if only browsing)

• Local Sporting Clubs, eg Hahndorf Bowling Club, Football Club, Cricket Club etc.
  

• Other Community Organisations, eg Hahndorf Lions Club, Hahndorf Senior Citizens.
  

• The 'Village Voice', Emergency Services, Neighbourhood Watch.
  

• Local Churches, local Schools (including students), Town Band, Informal Community Groups, etc, etc.
  

• Special groups, such as artists, craft and hobby groups, who have a strong association with Hahndorf.
  

• Personal pages by individuals related to anything re Hahndorf (history, stories, articles, opinions, blogs, etc).
  

• Even those who already have a static website could consider using this Wiki due to its dynamic nature. (ie ease and access of editing by all from their own web-browser).

Whatever you desire and consider appropriate, provided that it has some relevance to the Hahndorf community such as:

• General and specific information, announcements, coming events, contacts, discussions, photos, stories etc.
  

• Home Pages for groups, individuals, students, and virtually anything reasonable can be created.
  

• Also, links to externel web-sites related to Hahndorf are encouraged.

It is also intended that 'The Hahnwiki' should be used as a resource and repository of all historical and heritage information, and similar matters related to Hahndorf.
It would therefore be very much appreciated if individuals and/or organisations would make available any such information they may have either by inputting it directly in 'The Hahnwiki' or making it available so this may be done.

For Assistance and Instructions in the use of 'The Hahnwiki', please view the Hahndorf Wiki Guide page and associated pages.

Before making any additions or changes you must login at the top right of the page, and create an identity if you haven't previously done so. Please note that in certain cases, special editing restrictions may have been imposed by some users or groups. (In such cases the blue 'edit' tag/s will not be shown at the bottom of the page even after logging-in).

Please create your pages without any restrictions wherever possible as this assists in the general concept and usefulness of 'The Hahnwiki'. Remember that all information contained herein can be read by anyone.

Please refer to 'The Site Disclaimer' below and remember to observe community standards and conduct in your additions and editing as in any public forum.

Don't forget you can search the wiki pages by clicking on the "Wiki Search" link in the top right hand corner of the page, or from the more extensive Find Pages exploration and search.

Also available is a complete Title Index listing all pages in this Wiki for your information and access.

This site was originally initiated by Tony Finnis on a trial basis from July 2005 for about 6 months as a result of approaches by some local organisations and individuals to evaluate a suitable non-commercial community based Internet presence for Hahndorf. This trial period was subsequently extended for a further 6 months to the end of June 2006. By this time it was considered that the degree and extent of support from interested persons and organisations within the community was such that 'The Hahnwiki' could now be placed on a permanent basis.
As a result, commencing August 2006, 'The Hahnwiki' was set-up on a permanent basis operating under the auspices of The Hahndorf Community Association utilising the 'www.hahndorf.org.au' and the 'hahndorf.soho.on.net' domain names.

At the Mount Barker Council meeting held 3 October 2006, a much appreciated grant was approved for the purchase of a new server for 'The Hahnwiki' to replace the temporary server then on loan. A new Dell Power Edge 840 2.80GHz Pentium D Pro 915 with 2GB memory and two SATA 160GB hard drives was purchased and became operational.
The Wiki program used is/was MoinMoin, and the Internet connected via a Internode ADSL:SOHO-1500-Power20 broadband service using Apache with FastCgi as the webserver.
Apart from the actual server (which remains the property of the Mount Barker Council), all other hardware, internet connections and associated items at that time were and remain the property of Tony Finnis being on loan to enable the project to operate.

Towards the end of March 2009, it was decided that over the next 3 months or so to gradually transfer the Hahnwiki operation from MoinMoin to 'Sycamore' as the wiki engine and to become part of the Wiki Spot Project. The Wiki Spot project is a non-profit, member supported effort to enable community wiki sites to be created and maintained. It is believed that The Hahnwiki could beneficially be incorporated within this system. This is currently being done, with the Hahnwiki being administered by Tony Finnis.

The current operating costs for 'The Hahnwiki' are being reimbursed by annual donations from The Hahndorf Community Association, The Hahndorf Academy, and The Hahndorf Branch of the National Trust of SA, with any shortfall being covered by Tony Finnis.

It is essential for the operating costs to continue to be reimbursed in some manner for the project to be viable.
Such reimbursement of these costs could take the form of individual donations and/or reimbursement by major organisations using 'The Hahnwiki'.

If you are interested in supporting 'The Hahnwiki' by a donation and/or providing reimbursement, please contact The Hahndorf Community Assoc. or Tony Finnis at finnis@internode.on.net or (ph 8388 1825) for details. Any such financial assistance would be most appreciated and will ensure the continuation of 'The Hahnwiki' project to the benefit and appreciation of the overall community.

'The Hahnwiki' will be constantly moderated to avoid 'spam' and other undesirable content.
Any material considered to be offensive, indecent or objectionable according to general community standards will be removed as a matter of priority.
Any persons or sites that continually add undesirable content will be 'blacklisted'.

This site is intended to convey and exchange information about and within the Hahndorf Community, however unlike standard web sites, what is posted on this site is substantially open to all. We therefore make it absolutely clear that the The Hahndorf Community Association Inc. and 'The Hahnwiki' support personnel accept no responsibility for or guarantees any information as being correct; or necessarily agrees with, supports or condones anything posted on 'The Hahnwiki' pages. Some may consider certain content incorrect, possibly provocative and at times even offensive. We emphasize that it is up to all who use these pages to do so creatively, respectfully, honestly and responsibly. The intention is that the pages located here will evolve as a result of creative collaboration, honest dialogue and intelligent reflection.