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- | The Zotero project' | ||
- | ====Creating a Wiki Account==== | + | See [[/support/dev/ |
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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 [[/ | + | |
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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. Significant edits to the general documentation should be the result of community consensus. | + | |
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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**: You need to be logged in to the wiki to edit and create pages. You can log in from any page by appending ?do=login to the page's URL (e.g. by visiting 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. You can read up on the syntax for Zotero' | + | |
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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 " | + |