Help:Tutorials

This help page contains information and tutorials to support you on the use of WeSISpedia.

WeSISpedia is a wiki, which means that it is a website written collaboratively by multiple users. The goal is to develop the content together and be able to keep track of the modifications. Once you save a page, it is immediately available online. However, the structure of a wiki is based on links and therefore, you should take care of always adding the link to your new page somewhere visible, e.g. in the main page. The text of the wiki is written using a markup language, known as Wikitext. For more details on editing, check the Editing section below.

For the addition of indicators, we have created a template for you to use, each time you want to add a new indicator.

WeSISpedia was built with the MediaWiki wiki software. Therefore, you can go to the MediaWiki help page to find general instructions on how the wiki works and all the options available.

Editing

To write in the wiki, we recommend you to use the Wikipedia's manual of style and Wikipedia's Dos and Don'ts.

The Wikipedia's cheatsheet contains the basic tips to write Wikitext.

For each page, you can see the date of the last modification at the bottom. To take a closer look on the last modifications, look for the page in Special:RecentChanges

Tutorials

As mentioned above, you can find help in the MediaWiki help page. For information specific to WeSISpedia, you can find instructions below. We plan to also add video tutorials.

• How to access WeSISpedia?

In order to be able to access the WeSISpedia website, a user name and a password are necessary. The project A01 will give them to the Principal Investigators (PI) who will then take care of giving them to their teams. With the correct credentials, the user can already see the WeSISpedia main page, but not edit it. Edition is only possible for registered logged in users.

• How to create an account?

In the top right corner of any page, you can find the link “Create account” which will lead to the corresponding page. After filling the form and receiving a confirmation e-mail, the user account is ready to use.

• How to create a page?

There are multiple ways to create a new page. You can find the instructions in MediaWiki's help page.

For A01 members: Users that need administrator rights should write an e-mail with their user name to an administrator, who can then assign such rights. Currently, only members of the project A01 are administrators.

• How to create a new Indicator page?

There are multiple ways to create a new page. You can find the instructions in MediaWiki's help page.

User groups and user rights

There are three types of users: anonymous users (without an account), registered users and administrators. The following table shows the most relevant rights of each group.

WeSISpedia user groups

User groups	Main rights
Administrators	Protect pages Delete or undelete pages Change user rights of others ...
Registered users	Reads Edit Move
Anonymous visitors (not registered)	Create accounts Read

The next table shows who belongs to each user group within the Collaborative Research Center (CRC).

WeSISpedia user group members

User group	Members
Anonymous users	External visitors
Registered users	CRC members Student assistants, if desired
Administrators	A01project members