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wiki internals - adding articles

Motivation

The information accessible at this site should be comprehensive and well structured. To achieve this, a basic structure for each article is desired.

Requirements

Please think about what information you would like to convey, and as a first step, answer the following questions:

As general requirements (to be able to successfully create/edit a wiki page), you should have access to a web browser with JavaScript and stylesheet support, as well as a stable internet connection. If you need to add images, you might want to install an image editing program (e.g. Adobe Photoshop or The GIMP).

Suggested structure

Instruction article

As with this very article, I (and this really is just a personal preference of mine) like to follow this kind of (lose) structure when writing a manual (answering each of the questions in the requirements):

Reference article

Next to the instruction articles, the NeuroElf wiki naturally also contains reference material (functions, file types, UI etc.). For those articles, the Motivation and Requirements sections are obviously not (as) necessary. Hence those articles should focus on

Layout instructions

Adding images

If you wish to add images (including formula representations) to the article, please refer to the articles about uploading image files and creating formula images.