Help:Community home pages

General style
A community home page should look like this:

PUT WIKI TEXT HERE

The transclusion of the communitybar template above will add a bar to the right which will include the subpages contacts, events, and documents. For example, on Rural@Work, the community bar includes:


 * Rural@Work/contacts
 * Rural@Work/events
 * Rural@Work/documents

Edit these pages to customize them. Put at least one heading on each of these pages to allow users to edit them easily from the main community page.

The contact template
Use the contact template to list contacts in the contacts subpage. This template accepts arguments in the following form:

Have a look at AMI@Work on-line Communities/contacts for another example.

Including news
You can add a section like this to include a list of all news categorized (in this case) in Category:Rural@Work news. The  tag creates a dynamic page list.

In your community home page, use your community news category instead of Category:Rural@Work news. If there's no category for your community news, just create it.

Community news
Registered members can create a news article.  namespace=News category=Rural@Work news count=5 shownamespace=false order=descending ordermethod=firstedit  older news

The news subpage
If you include news, please also create a news subpage. The subpage should include a list of all the news for your community (this can be done again with  but without specifying a  ).

Also, it is useful to have a "create news article" box like this:

You should change

preload=Template:News template Rural@Work

to

preload=Template:News template YourCommunityName

and create this template. You can base it on Template:News template Rural@Work&mdash;just replace the category link to point to your own community news category.

See also: Rural@Work/news