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Revision as of 21:05, 23 February 2006
Start with your User Page
Perhaps your user page is the most comfortable place for you to start editing. A brief description of who you are and what you are doing will help others feel comfortable with your edits and may even lead to productive collaborations.
To access your user page, log in, then click on your username at the top right of any OpenWetWare page. Then, click on the edit tab. If nothing has been added to your page you will be brought directly to the edit screen.
Formatting your User Page
Breaking up your page into different sections will make it much easier to read. If you create enough different sections, a table of contents like the one at the top of this page will be created automatically.
| What You Type | What You Get |
|---|---|
Start your sections as follows:
==New section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
New section
Subsection Sub-subsection
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You can see what your page now looks like by clicking Show preview.
Filling out your page
It's easy to put content on your pages. You simply type it in under the appropriate section, hitting Enter twice to create a new paragraph.
Contact Info
In this section you may want to list your name, your lab address and phone number or your email address.
Education
This section will give us a chance to use lists. A bulleted list is created by entering an asterisk in front of each item like so:
*2003-Present PhD candidate in Biology at Mass Tech
*1999-2003 BS in Biology University of Utah
creating:
- 2003-Present PhD candidate in Biology at Mass Tech
- 1999-2003 BS in Biology University of Utah
Numbered lists are created in the same way using # in place of *.
Take a moment to fill in your educational background.
Research Interests
Add a brief description of your research interests.
Links
We only add this section as a means to demonstrate links. You can link to another page on OpenWetWare by including the page name in double brackets. For example a link to the Protocols page would be written as: [[Protocols]] giving: Protocols
A link to an external website is made by including the web address followed by the link title in single brackets: [http://www.pubmed.gov pubmed] gives: pubmed.
Click on Save page and you are done. If you are working on large edits you may want to save the page periodically since all unsaved work will be lost if the browser window is closed.
Further Information
Now that you know some of the basics you can edit your user page as you please.
- The formatting we have described here is covered in somewhat greater detail at simple wiki editing examples.
- Also, check out this useful tutorial from wikipedia.
- If you're interested you can also add pictures and tables to pages.
