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; [[Help:Recommendations for editors|Recommendations for editors]]
 
; [[Help:Recommendations for editors|Recommendations for editors]]
 
: How to configure your account and to make sure your information gets displayed correctly.
 
: How to configure your account and to make sure your information gets displayed correctly.
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; [[Help:Tutorial|Oh God how does any of this work (Tutorial)]]
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: Quickly get up to speed with adding content. Has a nifty [[Help:Tutorial#Self-education|Self-education]] section that helps you discover exactly how things work around here.
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; [[Help:Content policy|Content policy]]
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: What goes onto the wiki and what does not.
 
; [[Help:Naming protocol|Naming protocol]]
 
; [[Help:Naming protocol|Naming protocol]]
 
: How to choose and spell names, terms, titles and the like.
 
: How to choose and spell names, terms, titles and the like.
 
; [[Help:Creating pages|Creating pages]]
 
; [[Help:Creating pages|Creating pages]]
: Nifty stuff with templates and examples that will reduce the amount of work you'll have to do.
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: Helpful guides to creating pages. Contains nifty stuff with templates and examples that will reduce the amount of work you'll have to do.
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; [[:Category:Example page|Example pages]]
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: Your first stop for creating pages.
 
; [[Help:Categories and properties|Categories and properties]]
 
; [[Help:Categories and properties|Categories and properties]]
 
: What they are, how they are used, and how to create new ones.
 
: What they are, how they are used, and how to create new ones.
 
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; [[Help:Editing|Editing help]]
== Semantic mediawiki extension ==
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: Help with syntax, formatting and other practicalities.
The snicdocs wiki uses the [http://semantic-mediawiki.org semantic mediawiki] extension, which enables nifty things like dynamic generation of lists, tables and mashups based on tagged data in ordinary wiki pages. The annotation is unobtrusive, e.g:
 
 
 
: I am competent with <nowiki>[[expertise::Python]]</nowiki>.
 
 
 
to note that this page (or rather the person described by this page) is competent in Python. The search/generate syntax is equally straightforward
 
 
 
: <nowiki>{{#ask: [[Category:Software]] [[Category:Bioinformatics]] |?centre }}</nowiki>
 
 
 
However, we must not let nomenclature run rampant and diverge (see: the problem with the semantic web). See [[#Naming protocol|naming protocol]] below.
 
  
 
=== Notice ===
 
=== Notice ===
In case the examples appear in red, or if you see similar broken links with double colons in them in other places on the wiki, '''''do not edit the links'''''. They appear because you have happened to come across the pages before we have managed to install the semantic mediawiki extension properly on our production server. This problem should disappear very shortly, and if it persists beyond your definition of shortly, it may help to edit the page, do nothing, and click save, to prod mediawiki to regenerate the links. If nothing works, please notify [[User:Joel Hedlund (NSC)]].
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This site has a lot of dynamically generated content, making heavy use of templates and the [http://semantic-mediawiki.org semantic mediawiki] extension. If anything looks broken or incorrect, please use the corresponding talk page to notify the person responsible. If all else fails, please notify [[User_talk:Joel Hedlund (NSC)]].
 
 
== Editing help ==
 
Editing help is available here: [[Help:Editing]].
 

Latest revision as of 18:31, 28 September 2011

This page contains information on how one should edit this wiki, eg: best practices, protocols, templates and the like.

These pages are a highly recommended read:

Recommendations for editors
How to configure your account and to make sure your information gets displayed correctly.
Oh God how does any of this work (Tutorial)
Quickly get up to speed with adding content. Has a nifty Self-education section that helps you discover exactly how things work around here.
Content policy
What goes onto the wiki and what does not.
Naming protocol
How to choose and spell names, terms, titles and the like.
Creating pages
Helpful guides to creating pages. Contains nifty stuff with templates and examples that will reduce the amount of work you'll have to do.
Example pages
Your first stop for creating pages.
Categories and properties
What they are, how they are used, and how to create new ones.
Editing help
Help with syntax, formatting and other practicalities.

Notice

This site has a lot of dynamically generated content, making heavy use of templates and the semantic mediawiki extension. If anything looks broken or incorrect, please use the corresponding talk page to notify the person responsible. If all else fails, please notify User_talk:Joel Hedlund (NSC).