Revision as of 18:50, 8 August 2016

Getting started on the LinkedEarth wiki can seem a daunting task if one has never tried to edit pages on Wikipedia or other wiki platforms. The LinkedEarth team put together this guide to help you get started with the wiki from uploading a new dataset to property annotation and contributing your expert knowledge. The goal is to make this process as seamless as possible. If you have any suggestions on how to improve the LinkedEarth wiki, please contact us.

Before you start

Getting a Linked Earth wiki account

To contribute to the LinkedEarth wiki, you need to be a member of the LinkedEarth Community. To get an account, use the membership form.

Logging in the Wiki

To log in, just click on the link at top right of the wiki and insert your user/password as shown on Figure 1.

Figure1: Log in form

Why we need you

Thanks to the effort of the PAGES2k group, we already have over 600 records ready to be uploaded on the LinkedEarth wiki. However, there are hundreds more of legacy data and new datasets being generated.

It would be impossible for a team of three geoscientists to contribute these datasets. However, as you generate datasets in your lab or assemble compilation for your work, please contribute them to the LinkedEarth wiki! The more people contribute, the more useful the platform will be for future science!

The LinkedEarth wiki is also a platform where scientific knowledge can be contributed. While we have written some articles to get started, there are still many more that need to be written, updated, or improved!

Where to start

We have put together several tutorial to get you started with the wiki:

• Quick Guide to Editing Wiki Pages: The markup language for all mediawiki sites, including the LinkedEarth wiki, is called "wikitext". It is a bit different from HTML, but the principle is similar.
• Dataset Tutorial: Learn how to upload a dataset onto the platform and edit the various properties.
• Discussion Page Tutorial: The platform has a channel that support discussion of the various terms used on the platform. We have prepared a guide to keep this discussion organized following the standard found on Wikipedia.
• Best Practices: Set of rules when editing a wiki page. This is meant to keep the discussions organized and avoid the multiplication of properties that relate to the same concept.

Searching

There are several ways you can search the wiki:

• You can use the search box in the upper right-hand corned. You can search for the name of a page, or any term that appears in a page/
• Within any article, you can use CTRL (or CMD on a Mac) + F and search for a term on that page.