Help:Editing policies

This page contains information on how one should edit this wiki, eg: best practices, protocols, templates and the like.

Semantic mediawiki extension

The snicdocs wiki uses the semantic mediawiki extension, which enables nifty things like dynamic generation of lists, tables and mashups based on tagged data in ordinary wiki pages. The annotation is unobtrusive, e.g:

[[competence::Python]] to make Python

and the search/generate syntax is equally straightforward

{{#ask: [[Category:Software]] [[Category:Bioinformatics]] |?centre }} to make redacted, do not use before the extension is properly installed, or it may mess up the page's categories

as long as we do not let nomenclature run rampant and diverge (see: the problem with the semantic web).

In case the examples below appear in red, or if you see similar broken links in other places on the wiki, it is because you have happened to come across the pages before we have managed to install the semantic mediawiki extension properly on our production server. This problem should disappear very shortly, and if it persists beyond your definition of shortly, notify User:Joel Hedlund (NSC).

Recommendations for editors

Set up your watch lists and notifications

1. Go to your preferences page and add your email.
2. Configure your account so that pages you create automatically get added to your watchlist, and that notifications will go to your email.

Set up your user page correctly

1. Tag your user page with the categories "Applications expert" and your research area (at least one, eg "Bioinformatics").
2. List your special competences using verbatim semantic medawiki property tags, like so [[competence::Python]] to make e.g: Python, note double colons.

Naming scheme and protocol

Headings and page names

Headings and page names should be in all lowercase, except the first character which should be a capital letter, like so:

Recommendations for editors

Editing policies

Widely accepted acronyms like SNIC, NSC or HMMER are of course exceptions from this rule.

Categories

Category names follow the same rules as headings, like so:

Category:Research area

The snicdocs wiki makes extensive use of categories, in part to simplify navigation for the users, but mostly because it permits straightforward creation of dynamically generated lists, tables and mashups using the semantic mediawiki extension. This, however, requires generous peppering of category and property tags onto wiki pages, using great restraint and strict discipline so that nomenclature does not run rampant and diverge (see: the problem with the semantic web).

Properties

Property names are all lowercase, like so:

competence

center

Categories