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Searching and browsing throw the Lipidomics Platform
Searching a specific article
Searching for a specific article is easy as searching by google. Just enter the term you want to search into the textfield at the left of the page and click 'Go'. The software will search for any results and show them immediately.
Category browsing
Every article has a list at the bottom of all the major categories it belongs to. For example Steroid hormones is listed under: Category:Sterols (ST), Category:Lipid signalling
You will find the top categories of the Lipidomics Platform at the Lipidomics community portal. So a good start of browsing and getting in touch with the software would be clicking throw the main categories to its subcategories and its articles (and so on).
Other useful buttons and panels
Sidebar (left)
To the side of each article are some standard options for navigation, and for tools, and on some articles, for languages:
Navigation options include:
- Main_Page - the Lipidomics Wiki home page
- Community Portal - as a community building an encyclopedia, Lipidomics Wiki has a portal for users, giving easy access to many of the useful pages within Lipidomics Wiki
- Current events - latest news reported within the Lipidomics Wiki community
- Recent changes - articles that are being edited at this moment
- Random article - lucky dip, if you're ever bored or want to learn something new!
- Help - exactly what it says
Toolbox includes:
- What links here - useful for tracing where this article is referenced from.
- Related changes
- Upload file - how you add images (and occasionally other files) to Wikipedia
- Special pages - all the special functions and administration options can be found here.
Other sidebar functions include:
- Search - allows you to search other articles across the whole of Lipidomics Wiki.
Top tabs (above the article)
Each page in Lipidomics Wiki contains an article, and a discussion page (usually called "Talk...")
You can see these above, the article is labelled "project page", the discussion page is the tab to the right of it. These are treated as two separate pages in Lipidomics Wiki, but are shown side by side on the tab bar, for ease of use.
Whether you are looking at the article or project page, or the discussion page, you will see there is a button marked "edit this page", possibly a button "+", and a button labelled "watch" or "unwatch".
- Edit this page - this is the key to contributing to Lipidomics Wiki. When you click this button, you change from viewing an article or discussion about an article, to being able to edit the article, or add comments to the discussion that is going on.
- Occasionally, pages that are important or may be vandalized are locked, in which case the "edit" will show "view source", and you will not be able to edit the article at that time
- Page editing is simple with Lipidomics Wiki, and you cannot harm a page if you make a mistake, since all changes can be undone. This is part of Lipidomics Wiki's vandal protection.
- "+" - adds a new section to a page, without changing what is already there.
- Watch/unwatch - adds or removes a page from your watchlist, the list of pages you are tracking. You can view your watchlist with the user option button "my watchlist" at the top right of the screen.
User options (top right)
These control your user account. To create a user account you only need to choose a name and a password. An email address is optional and only used for password reminders.
Unless you create an account you will not be able to customize Lipidomics Wiki preferences for yourself. Almost all experienced editors use an account in order to ensure accountability.
The user options also include links to view your watchlist (articles you are tracking), and contributions you have made.
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