Help:Editing

General help about editing (e.g., formatting, creating pages, editing a page, etc.) is well covered here:

Set up help contents outline here; both done and in progress. The goal is once this is finished this should be a final outline for Antwiki editor help pages.

The top level help home page is a landing page that will lead many people here because it begins:

[Help:Contents |Top Level Help "Home" Page]]

• Editing help
  • Link to Mediawiki editing manual [Wikimedia Editing Help]
  • Link to editor created help pages (this page) or Help:User-created (Maybe need to combine these two pages or delete one?)

There is also some text that follows on this top level landing page which gives a broad overview of Antwiki (probably should be some of this here but don't know what it should ultimately look like).

The top level help landing page is protected from editing.

Now to deal with this page, and its structure. Currently it seems this should be a (sort of) table of contents. Headings that are links, with a brief explanation following the heading that explains what each linked page is about. The heading explanations will necessarily be made rather rough and include details that can later be edited out. Including more details for now will help in knowing what is done as all this is being put together. For some headings explanations may not be needed.

Named Pages

• Ant Names and Antwiki Name Pages - rationiale for making them, how they are made, based on Bolton catalogue, don't make more
• Editing Named Pages - how to edit (includes and links to appropriate other pages), warning to not make more. This page will include:
  • Common to Genus and Species Pages
    • Basic editing stuff (repeat about Mediawiki Manual)
    • Stub removal
  • Species Page
    • "blank" species page; created from template Help:Species_page_template
    • Species Headings Page Help:Species page headings
  • Genus Page
    • "blank" genus page; created from template Help:Genus_page_template
    • Genus Headings Page Help:Genus page headings

Specific Antwiki help topics include the following:

Images

how to add, information to include, categories, uploading files

currently:

• for all of us to keep up with what needs to be worked on here
  • To_Do_Image_Handling
• Other image related stuff
  • Help:Images this will be main image help page - how to upload, how to include other information with images, categories
  • Help:Taxobox images - taxabox image explanation, formatting and adding instructions
  • Sandbox/images - page for me to experiment, and check how image related templates are working, etc.
• other related pages that are vital to image help
  • Help:File upload

Regional Projects

includes and links out to Categories, species lists, species pages,

Species Lists

how created, how to edit, valid names

Other Projects

User Profile

editing, need contact info, need for users to be accountable so no aliases

Obtaining an editor account

how to do so, restrictions, requirements

Georeference information

how to add to image, how to add inline

Antwiki Management

who, how, why

specimen data?

why the site is not built around these

Help:Categories

for: images, named pages, other things(?)

Antwiki:Copyright

other pages that need to link here: images, uploading, pdfs, creating new pages, editing, ?