FAQ/Wiki

1 FAQ Section 99: Wiki

About this Wiki

1.1 Is this Wiki affiliated with OpenCFD/ESI ?

No. This Wiki is a community effort. Its aim is to give people a place where they can collect/publish information about OpenFOAM and related projects.

1.2 Am I allowed to contribute?

Yes. That is the idea behind a Wiki: if you have something valuable to say, then do it. If your fellow contributors think that it is inappropriate/erroneous they will edit it accordingly. But you'd be surprised how seldom this is necessary

1.3 I found an error/outdated information/missing stuff. Whom do I contact?

Nobody. Get an account and edit the information with the error. That is the idea behind a Wiki: everyone is an editor

1.4 If the policy is so liberal why do I have to apply for an account to edit?

In the past lots of accounts were created by programs (so called bots) for spamming purposes. As this couldn't be prevented with automatic measures it is now necessary that people apply for an account via this form. The application will be reviewed by a human (usually within a workday) and an account will be created.

To make sure that requests are filed by real humans that have an interest in OpenFOAM two things are checked

• A valid EMail-address (this is checked automatically by sending you an EMail)
• A short (200 characters) biography. Information of interest is your current affiliation, your formal qualifications and what you're using OpenFOAM for (or what you're planning to use for). Applications where this is nonsense or copy/paste from other places will be denied.

After the creation of the account almost all pages can be edited.

1.5 I have a valid account but am no able to edit some pages

Certain pages (most notably landing page) are only editable for admins. The purpose of this is to prevent vandalism and avoid the breaking of pages with complex layouts

1.6 Are there any rules to what should go where?

Yes there are. They can be found here. But they are a bit outdated. Most of the time common sense and looking at how other people did it is sufficient.

1.7 I want to help, but I don't know what I should write about

If you don't know yet what to write about, and even if you're still getting familiar with OpenFOAM, then use this opportunity to pick a topic for studying and documenting one or more of several OpenFOAM features, topics and projects, by picking one or more from the following lists:

• The category Category:Incomplete pages lists all of the pages that are known to be still incomplete. Feel free to browse through them and to pick a topic to study upon and to then add information to that page based on what you learned.
• The page FAQ/Wiki/Ideas provides a good list of ideas for new pages and for improvements to existing pages.
• The Installation page can always use more help, so browse around there and be sure to read the help sections at the end of each major installation topic.

1.8 I have some information (an event, news, my company ...) that I want to add to the front page

The front page is not directly editable, but there are certain places where users can add their information and it will be included. Information that can be added is

• Events: Section 2 of the front page
• News: Section 10 of the front page
• Learning (Training): Section 3 of the front page
• Links: Section 8 of the front page

Details can be found in this and this news-item

1.8.1 The News Item/Event information I added doesn't show up on the front page

This is discussed here. The reason is that for performance reasons the Wiki-software caches queries with dynamic content and changes might take a couple of hours to show up.