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User Name Choice
When considering your choice of a user name for a new account, please note the "User Listing" link in the navigation menu to the left. Your user name will be public on this listing. Your actual identity will remain private unless you reveal it on your user name home page. Other user's will be able to email you without you revealing your email address. Therefore, your user name can be obscure if you so desire. Transparent openness is probably more useful.
Setting User Preferences
Note the "my preferences" link on the very top line of text on any page, after your "my talk" link. Click into that where you can change your user settings. You should verify that all the namespaces are checked under the "search" tab on your preferences page. This is also where you set your email notification policy to enable email from other genomewiki users.
Creating new pages
Create new pages simply by entering the new title for the page into the search box and press the Go button. If a page by that title does not exist, the system will display a page indicating that no such page exists and it will provide a link to enter the editor to create content for the new page.
Alternatively, create a link to a new page from an existing page, using the double bracket notation [[Your_New_Page Optional Title For The Link Here]], and then click on that link. The editor for the new page will be entered directly where you can begin adding the new contents.
Remember to save your page contents after a preview, otherwise you will lose your edits.
CASE SENSITIVITY The wiki software will enforce case sensitivity on page names after the first letter. The first letter of a page name is case-insensitive and will appear as upper case. Letters following the first are case sensitive and will appear as entered. Therefore, it becomes way too easy to create pages with the exact same name, differing only in case. Beware of this situation.
Discussion Pages
Please note, each page in the wiki actually behaves like two pages in one. There is a primary "article" page which is what you see when you create a new page and add contents. At the same time there is a parallel "discussion" page accessed via the "discussion" tab at the top of the page. This discussion page is used for note taking and discussion about that page's contents between the contributors to that page. The discussion page can be used in a blog like fashion to maintain a background commentary to the construction process of the actual article page.
Creating URL Links from your pages
For internal links to pages within this Wiki: In your page text, enclose the title of the page you want to link to in double square brackets: [[Main Page]] which appears as Main Page.
For external links, place the http:// URL in your page with the title following, highlight the whole thing, and then press the fourth button from the left at the top of the editor bar, looks like a little world image. It adds single [square brackets] around your URL which causes it to be an external reference.
Organizing Content
The primary method of organizing content in this wiki is to place your page into one or more catagories. Thus, your page becomes part of a collection of pages all related to the same category. To add your page to a category, place a category tag at the end of your page contents (end of page by convention only, it can actually be anywhere within the page). The category tag looks like:
[[Category:<category type here>]]
See also: Special:Categories for a list of existing categories. The name to enter as <category type here> is exactly as the names appear in the listing.
New categories are created simply by creating a reference to them. They should be edited to have a one line description and placed into an appropriate higher level category.
Pages can be in more than one category, but you should avoid placing a page in both a category and a subcategory. See also: [Wikipedia categorization]
Entering Math
To display math equations, you can use TeX formatting:
<math> \sqrt{2}\approx 1.4 </math>
See also: Math Markup
Restricted Pages
We do not have restricted pages here for specific work groups. Everything created here is open content readable by all viewers. And due to the history mechanism behind every page, no content can be effectively deleted entirely.
