Help:Contents

From Scholarpedia

This is the main Scholarpedia's Help Page.

User Help

Help pages for registered users:

• Help:Users -- Introductory help for new users (how can I help, can I edit a new page? ...).
• Help:User preferences -- The preferences dialog allows you to personalize some aspects of your Scholarpedia preferences.

Author Help

Help pages for invited authors of articles and for articles' curators:

• Help:Authors -- Instructions for authors.
• Help:Visual help for authors -- A visual help describing how to log-in, how to submit a paper, how to approve a modified version of an article (for curators) and other common actions in authors' and curators' life.
• Help:Author FAQ -- Authors' frequently asked questions
• Help:Instructions for authors (Physics) -- Advanced instructions for authors (elementary actions, ScholarWiki, Latex, a few ready--to--cut--and--paste examples, editorial conventions, administrative procedure, links).

Reviewer Help

Help pages for invited reviewers of submitted pages:

• Help:Reviewers -- Instructions for reviewers.
• Help:Visual help for authors -- A visual help describing how to log-in, how to approve a paper, and other common actions in reviewers' life.

Editor Help

• Help:Editor's quick start -- Read this first!
• Help:Editors -- Instructions for editors.
• Help:Visual help for editors -- A visual help describing common actions in editors life.
• Help:Editor FAQ -- Editors' frequently asked questions.

Advisory Editor Help

• Help:Advisory Editor's quick start

ScholarWiki and MediaWiki

Web pages in Scholarpedia (including encyclopedic articles) are written in a dialect of the wikitext markup language to which we refer as ScholarWiki. The software that runs ScholarWiki is a branch of MediaWiki 1.5.4, a nice open source software that implements the wikitext dialect used in Wikipedia. For this reason ScholarWiki and MediaWiki are pretty similar but not totally identical, meaning that some advanced features of MediaWiki might be absent in ScholarWiki and viceversa. Waiting to be replaced by our own pages, most of the help entries below link to Wikipedia help: please keep in mind the remark above.

Editing

• Tutorial of tricks and styles.
• Edit a page, including markup details.
• Experiment with editing pages in the sandbox
• Cheat! (editor's cheat sheet - keep this open in another window)
• Use sections in an article
• Test edits, and other things
• Use redirect pages
• Do a purge
• Edit an article so long that you can't edit
• edit with an external editor
• Handle an edit conflict
• Use minor edits

Advanced editing

• Move and merge a page
• Use Wiki markup codes
• HTML codes in wikitext
• Use tables
• Use special characters
• Use easy timeline syntax
• Edit mathematical formulae using TeX

Links

• Link articles
• Use an alternate link descriptor (the piped link)
• Link to related articles on Scholarpedia projects]
• Create links to external pages
• Use page names
• Use namespaces
• Use headings as anchors to link to

Images

• Place images into articles
• How to upload files to Scholarpedia
• Understanding the image description page
• Create graphics for pages
• Images and multimedia

Creating pages

• Start a new page
• Create pages for topics with several different definitions
• Stub articles

Super-advanced editing

• Editing shortcuts
• Tools NOT FULLY SUPPORTED IN SCHOLARPEDIA
• Editing toolbar
• "Magic words" NOT FULLY SUPPORTED IN SCHOLARPEDIA
• Variables NOT FULLY SUPPORTED IN SCHOLARPEDIA

See also

• All Scholarpedia's help pages