Help:For Authors

From RHESSI Wiki

This page describes the steps necessary to create and edit your own article. This information is generally valid for creating any kind of article on this wiki but may be particularly useful to new Nugget authors.

Creating an Article

All pages on this wiki are articles including the RHESSI science nuggets. In order to create a new article a title must first be chosen. The title of an article cannot be changed so choose your article title carefully! It is possible to move the content from one article to another with a different title but this is not a recommended practice. There are two main ways to create an article.

• Simply search for the title of the article you wish to create using the search bar on the left. The wiki should confirm that no other articles have this title by not finding it and will give a choice to create this article. Click the link and your new article will open in edit mode.

• Articles are organized through categories. An article is added to a category by adding meta-data into the article text. The next method for creating an article is to navigate to the category page and use the Form to create a new article in that category. The RHESSI Science Nugget category page can be found here. The category meta-data will then automatically be included in the article text.

Writing your article

Adding Figures

In order to add a figure it is first necessary to upload the image to the wiki. This can be done by using the link on the left titled "Upload File". Please use a descriptive name for the file and add a description of its contents. Once uploaded the file can be added to articles using the following command

[[Image:POF.jpg|200px|thumb|right|'''Figure 1''': This is the figure caption.]]

whose results can be seen to the right.

If you'd like to experiment with more advanced methods read this article on Wikipedia's website.