PDBWiki Help

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[edit] What is a Wiki?

From http://biowiki.net/:

Wiki is a web technology designed to allow multiple authors to freely add and edit website contents. Wiki is thus well suited for developing collaborative online knowledge bases, whose best known example is Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org).

PDBWiki uses the same underlying software as Wikipedia, which is called MediaWiki. This is why the screen layout and user functionality looks similar to Wikipedia. However, PDBWiki is not part of Wikipedia and not affiliated with Wikipedia in any way except for the facts that both projects aim to freely create and share information. For more information on the aims of PDBWiki see About PDBWiki.

[edit] Editing pages

Anyone can edit pages in PDBWiki. The idea is to add missing content and to correct errors directly. On any page, click the 'Edit' button at the top to show the 'page source', which can now be edited. The page source is basically the text content of the page plus some 'markup' to format the text. In general, no knowledge of the markup is required to add content to a page. Simply follow the style of the existing text. You can preview your changes by using the 'Show preview' button at the bottom of the page. If the results are not satisfying you can revoke the changes by clicking 'Cancel'. To keep the changes, click 'Save page'. This will show the new page, including the new contents.

For more detailed information about MediaWiki markup see Help:Contents.

[edit] The structure of PDBWiki

Every page in PDBWiki belongs to a category (see here for more information about MediaWiki categories). All categories are organized into the following category tree. The individual category pages contain more information about how they are to be used.

The PDBWiki category tree: