Advice on Building the Informatics Wiki
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Good Practice in Building the InformaticsWiki
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[edit] General Article Layout
There's a wide array of ways in which you can make useful layouts for a Wiki article.
- You might want to view a nice article on NANOG developed by students in the Fall, 2006, Fundamentals Class and work, by example, looking at the edit tab code from that page to produce similar formatting in your article.
- The protein summary information was created for that page by beginning with at template a couple of the students found Template:Protein
- Note how references are formatted in the NANOG article, especially. When a web address is surrounded by the tags <ref>http://some_web_address</ref> in the markup of an article, the page will appear to have a footnote beneath a section titled something like this
==Notes==<references/>
- This is an example of a reference for someone who might like to know about Donald Duck [1]
- Section headings (like "General Article Layout," above) are tagged by double equals signs:
==Notes== <references/>
- As always, you can experiment in the Sandbox-url
[edit] Section Headings and Table of Contents
- Section headings are listed in a Table of Contents when there are four or more sections in a page.
- The Table of Contents feature is useful for complex articles.
[edit] Subsections
- Subsections are tagged using three, rather than two equals signs on each side of the subsection title.
===This is a subsection===
[edit] Images
As a prerequisite to including an image in your article, you must upload an image to the Wiki. At the left of all pages you'll see a link reading "Upload File."
To include an image file in an article, you must know the name of the image and use the
[[Image:Example.jpg]]
tag, conveniently inserted using the image icon on the editing page.
To better format the image, experiment with this kind of tag:
[[Image:venn_diagram.jpg|thumb|left|250px|This Venn diagram represents how stem-cell master regulators Oct4, Nanog, and Sox2 work together in regulating the genome. It shows the number of genes that they interact with individually, in pairs, or as a triad.]]
[edit] Collaboration and Summary
Please encourage one another to use the discussion feature (under the discussion tab) to plan and organize your articles.
As an article evolves, it's useful to understand so it is easy for others to see.
- If two people are editing at the same time, a special page comes up guiding you through the changes. Read Carefully.
- Use the signing icon frequently on the discussion pages or when you have specific questions. You need not sign specific contributions to the articles themselves.
