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- | ===Improve Zotero' | + | < |
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- | The Zotero project' | + | <a href="https:// |
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- | ===Creating a Wiki Account=== | + | |
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- | ===Three Documentation Sections=== | + | |
- | Before you start editing the wiki, familiarize yourself with its three principal divisions. | + | |
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- | The **knowledge base**, or all the articles found at support/kb, is a collection of short questions and answers, tangential issues, and other information that, while useful, is not directly applicable to every Zotero user. The brief, tangential nature of these articles make them a great place to start getting involved in documenting Zotero. If a question keeps coming up in the forums, start an article about it and link to it in future threads. If you add a new article, be certain to add at the bottom of the page the following code, so the article can be picked up by the index and the search engine: | + | |
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- | The **general documentation** section contains core information about Zotero and its functions. You can think of this section as the sort of information you would find in the Zotero manual if there was such a thing. Any large-scale edits to the general | + | |
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- | The **developers** section of the wiki is for information on how Zotero and the technologies it uses work. If you are developing, extending, or otherwise coding software to interact with Zotero, please consider contributing to the developer documentation. | + | |
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- | ===Editing the Wiki=== | + | |
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- | * **Logging in**: To edit and create pages in the documentation wiki, you need to log in. You can log in to the wiki from any page by appending ?do=login to the pages URL. For example you can log in from the support homepage with http:// | + | |
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- | * **Editing a page**: Once you are logged in, you will be able to edit pages, and view recent changes through a toolbar at the bottom of each support page. To edit the page, simply click the edit page button that appears at the bottom of a page or section. A new window will appear with a large text field where you can edit the page. You can read up on the syntax | + | |
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- | * **Creating a page**: To create a new page simply type in the URL where you want your page to reside. If no page exists at that location, you will be told "This topic does not exist yet". Click the " | + | |
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