How To Register

The IWA WaterWiki aims to be THE online reference point for water, wastewater and environmental science and management issues. Alongside this it provides a wider set of features that will enable community discussion and interaction:

The wiki is a collaborative website that everybody can read and anyone can edit. In order to edit the WaterWiki you must first complete a simple registration process.

Content Table

• Getting Started
• Create a User Profile
  • How to Create a User Profile
• Create an Organization Profile
  • How to Create an Organization Profile
  • Creating the Profile
  • Create Links for your Profile
  • Insert Tables, Images or Macros
  • Edit your Profile
  • Search for an Organization Profile

Getting Started

• Enter the website by going to www.iwawaterwiki.org/
• Click Register on the home page
• Complete the basic registration form by giving your full name and a valid email address
• you will also need to come up with your own username and password
• a confirmation email will be sent to your email account
• follow the link in the confirmation email to complete the registration process
• N.B. if you do not recieve the confirmation email, you could try checking your spam filter

Create a User Profile

Your User Profile can show as little as your name, but if you wish to create a profile for the whole community to see, you can:

• Add your title, position and contact details
• Describe your role or research interests, attach a CV., link yourself to an Organization Profile on the site.
• Registered users of WaterWiki can contact other users through the messaging system.

How to Create a User Profile

• Once you have registered, Click on your name i.e. David Burns located at the top of the home page next to Log-out  

• This will bring you onto your profile page
• To add information about yourself Click Modify Profile
• Input the relevant data into the form

Create an Organization Profile

This feature allows you to create a presence on the WaterWiki for your organization, department, research project or working group that will highlight their work to the water community.

• You can create a short profile for an organization you belong to,  describing your organization, its function and role. 
• You can provide contact details and links to your organization’s resources on the web – or related articles on the Wiki.

How to Create an Organization Profile

• Click Organizations under the Browse menu on the homepage
• This will bring you to the Organizations Space
• Click Add a new organization
• Click Organizations under the Browse menu on the homepage

Creating the Profile

• Having clicked Add an Organization, type in the name of your organization
• Click Create
• This will bring up a blank profile of your organization
• Complete the profile by providing the relevant information about your organization

Create Links for your Profile

• Link your organization to other web pages, profiles or sites
• Click on the Link icon in any of the information boxes and select the page that you would like to link to.

Insert Tables, Images or Macros

• Use the various icons in any of the information boxes to insert tables, Images or Macros
• For more information on these functions see ‘How to Create an Article'

Edit your Profile

• To change or amend your organization's profile, click edit organization profile
• Make your changes and then click Save and View

• To search for an Organization click Search on the homepage
• Type in the name of the Organization
• Choose Organizations under the drop-down menu