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Welcome!

Here you will find some basic instructions to help orient you on how we would like the new Wiki to evolve. Taking the time to get acquainted with these guidelines and on how to use MediaWiki tools in general will make your work easier, so please do explore the Wiki before jumping in with both feet!

Minimum Standards We've already had a few flubs, so to make sure we're all on the same page, we've come up with the following standards: Please register and create and account It is mandatory at this time, please contact Michel Bauwens. Thanks! Use the Sandbox page for practice The Sandbox is a great place to get your feet wet without worrying about goofing something up. Help with Wiki formatting If you aren't sure how to format something, visit the Help:Editing Editing Help page for more information. MediaWiki manual If you want to learn more about using this new repository see the excellent MediaWiki User's Guide. Do not use CamelCase for page titles : For example, if you want to create a page named "About Emakina", you can type http://research.emakina.net/About_Emakina into your address bar, and the new page will automatically be created. When you wish to link to a created page, create the link with the Wiki format of: [[About Emakina]] and not the CamelCase [[AboutUs]]. Sub pages Our standard is to NOT create any sub pages, EXCEPT for personal pages of Wiki Users and for the Template Tags. Search the Wiki before creating new pages Make sure a page doesn't already exist. Proofread Ensure your work has proper spelling and grammar. Empty pages Please do NOT create blank pages simply as placeholders. Once the pages are created, they are live, and any links to them will then work. When a user clicks their way to an empty page, they have just wasted some of their time. PLEASE - only create pages when you have some content to put into them. You need not have a complete page, but there should be something of value there for users. Thank you! Incomplete pages If you think a page is incomplete, mark the page as such by using the Stub template. You do this by inserting the following tag: {{Stub}}. (NOTE: The Stub tag is case-sensitive!) Duplicate pages If you think that Page A is a copy of Page B, or even close, then please use {{merge}} to tag the pages as requiring merging. Pages to be deleted If you find a page that should not, or need not be there, or is inappropriate, edit the page to have the {{rfd}} tag. This will alert Brice to look into it for deletion. Page names These should be full titles, so instead of "IntroToBlogs" have "Introduction to Blogs". They should also follow the Dr. Grammar rules regarding capitalization thus: "In titles, capitalize the first word, the last word, and all words in between except articles (a, an, and the), prepositions under five letters (in, of, to), and coordinating conjunctions (and, but). These rules apply to titles of long, short, and partial works as well as your own papers" (Anson, Schwegler, and Muth. The Longman Writer's Companion 240) Discussion Do you see something that is perhaps incorrect, or needs clarification? The best way to make mention of any issues is to use the DISCUSSION function. Please refrain from adding your comments directly onto the ARTICLE page. If you notice at the top, every page has a DISCUSSION tab on it, which is the place to make your comments, suggestions, and such. Thank you! Please create a horizontal rule between comments on the discussion page by using four dashes ---- between entries. Add four ~s to add your "signature" with a time-stamp -- useful for discussion pages OR just click on the signature icon at the top of the edit window...it's the second one from the right. Have fun. :)

Pages Created This section might help reduce duplicated work :) Check the following listing of all posts, or search first, before adding new pages. All pages or All pages (explain the differnces between the two groups of all pages) But don't worry too much about it! Dive in and start learning and working here, the community will help direct you. :-)