Welcome to the Best Practices Project Database. As the name suggests, this database is meant to capture and store the best practices of volunteers completed projects. Gone are the days when volunteers are constantly bothering their PMs, asking them for contacts and resources on how to do certain projects. Gone are the days when volunteers are constantly reinventing the wheel. Now current volunteers can record the resources they have accumulated over the duration of their service for the future use of incoming volunteers and Thai communities.

Below you can find a step-by-step guide on how to add your information to the database. Additionally, please keep a few things in mind when posting your information:

• Because this section of the Peace Corps Thailand Wiki will eventually be made public, we want to eliminate any specific volunteer identifiers in accordance with Peace Corps Washington's policy. Therefore, when you are adding your Contact Information, please limit it to just your email address.
• Additionally, if anywhere in the name or supplemental documents of your project, there is any identifier that would give away your specific location (i.e. name of your village or Tambon), please delete it or make it more general (i.e. naming your province is OK).
• To avoid duplicate names for pages (which will give Wetpaint conniption fits), please add your initials to the name of your entry. In general, please also try to make your project as uniquely named as possible so as to help volunteers distinguish it in the list.
• Lastly, because of a limited storage space issue in terms of uploading documents, for now, please email all supplemental files of your project(s) to David Keith at david.i.keith@gmail.com and he will upload them to the Wiki. As an alternative, you are welcome to make child pages for your database entry and then fill them with information copied from Word documents.

Adding your information to the Wiki

Step 1: While you are in the Best Practices Projects Database section of the Wiki (which you are in right now if you are currently reading this) click on the Add a New Page option on the right-hand column of your computer screen.


Step 2: Once you click on the Add a New Page option, the Add a New Page dialogue box will pop up. Here is where you will add what the title of your entry will be (don't forget to add your initials) as well as any keyword tags that will help Wiki identify your page when other users do a search. So name your page, add any appropriate keyword tags, and as a final step, under the Use Template option, select the Best Practices Projects Database Template option. Once you are done, click on the purple Add Page button at the bottom of the Add a Page dialogue box to add your page.

Step 3: Congratulations! You've just successfully added your database entry into the Wiki. But your entry doesn't mean much if there isn't any information in there so here's how to add your information into the database. Click on the Easy Edit button at the top of the page which will let you add content into your entry. Now you are free to treat your page like any old Word document, just click on the appropriate data fields to add your information. Remember, the more detailed the better. Once your are done inputting all your information, click on Save in the EasyEdit Toolbar. Your almost done, now just one more step!


Step 4: If you have any supplemental files that go with your project(s), i.e. budget, proposal, action plan, etc. that you think will help volunteers in doing their own projects, please email them to Dave at david.i.keith@gmail.com and he will upload them to the Wiki. As an alternative, you are welcome to make child pages for your database entry by copying information from your documents and pasting them into your Wiki page(s).