Parkinson's disease/Wiki User Guide

This paper identifies some potential applications of this wiki and outlines the information required by users in order to implement each of these.

Site Map

Applications

Application	You need to:-
Casual browsing	Start from the URL of the Home page or the Site Map
Correcting or amending text	Use the Edit command
Monitoring changes	Create a Watch List
Adding paragraphs	Master the Wiki Commands and Conventions
Setting up a new topic	Use the page set up conventions
Discussing an issue	Use the Discussion pages
Posting an article	Use the Magazine section
Research	Use the Research tool
Learn more about wikis	Take note of useful pages

URL

The Portal Page is at:-

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:The_Science_Behind_Parkinson%27s

The Site Map is at

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:The_Science_Behind_Parkinson%27s/PD_Site_map

N.B. Anyone can browse the wiki, but if you want to add material or even do the most minimal editing then please create an account and log in.

   Tip  To make the text in your browser bigger, Hold the CTL key down and press the '=' key - the equals key.
   (CTL and '-' - the minus key - makes the text smaller.)

Editing Text

Log in

Either

Click the Edit tab at the top of the page. (You can then edit the whole page.)

Or

Click on the [edit] command at the top of the section you want to edit.

(A text panel opens.)

Make changes and Click on the Show preview button at the bottom of the panel.

When you are satisfied, Click on the Save Page Button

You can abort at any time by clicking on Cancel.

A comprehensive guide to editing can be found by clicking on Editing help.

   Tip    Clicking on a link with the CTL key pressed will open the target page in a new tab. 
   This is useful when you want to keep open the page you are working on
   such as when you have not saved an edit yet.

Remember in a wiki anybody can change anything!!

Monitoring pages

Log On

Open the Topic page you want to monitor.

Click on the starred tab at the top of the page.

(This will turn blue and give you a pop-up message to say the page has been added to your watch list.)

Alternatively, while you are editing a page, tick the Watch this page box at the foot of the edit panel before you-

Save this page

You can view a list of the topics you are watching by clicking on My watchlist at the top of the page.

Adding paragraphs

Commands

The wiki Markup language creates html behind the scenes. Often html can be used directly. It manipulates text by using embedded commands. A common format is:-

<start_command> text to be manipulated </end_command>

(But it is often easier to use the wiki commands, such as a colon at the beginning of the line for indenting or surrounding the text with two or three single quotes for italicising or emboldening.)

Examples

Command	Example	Result
Date	{{font\|color=maroon\|'''2011'''}}	2011
Subscript	S0<sub>2</sub>	S0₂
Superscript	25<sup>th</sup>	25^th
Wikipedia link	[[W:Caffeine\|'''Caffeine''']]	Caffeine
Indent	<blockquote>text</blockquote>	Indented text
Underline	<u>text </u>	text
Bold	<b>text </b>	text
Italic	<i>text </i>	text

Use of colour

Hyperlinks are recognised automatically and shown in blue.

Topics which have been designated but not yet set up are shown in red.

We are showing dates in bold maroon.e.g. 2012

We are showing source types in bold fuschia e.g. Full Text

Page setup conventions

You can put anything you like on any page but, to give the wiki some cohesion, some conventions have been adopted.

For an example go to the list of contents on the Home Page and click on the GM1 page in the Neuroprotection Section.

This was created by inserting the line :-

[[PD_Neuroprotection/GM1|GM1]],--

In the Contents Table. The title then appeared in red in the table and clicking on this sets up a blank page.

At the top of the page is an indented bold summary of what this Topic is all about.

The main headings are Background, Research, Further Reading, Related Pages, References.

To set up a Heading enclose it in pairs of equals signs e.g. ==Background==.

When the wiki software finds four such headings it automatically sets up a table of contents at the top of the page. (This can be suppressed by inserting the 'Magic Word' __NOTOC__ at the top of the page. It can be enforced and placed anywhere you want by putting __TOC__ there on a line of its own. Note the pair of underscores at both ends.)

Numbered Sub-headings can be added by increasing the number of equals signs, e.g. ===Early Research=== gives Early Research in the body of the text and 1.1 Early Research in the Table contents.

Automatic listing of references takes place by inserting a final heading of ==References== and following it with the single line of text viz:- <references/> (Note the slash at the end of the tag.)

References (Citations)

Written as a continuous narrative but decomposed here into its component parts.

Description	Example	Note
Author	Smith	Single author
	Smith and Jones	Two authors
	Smith et al	More than two
<ref>	<ref>	Start of reference
Author's names	Smith, N.J.; Jones, John and du Toit, F.	Surname first
Year	{{font\|color=maroon\|(2011)}}
Type	{{font\|color=fuchsia\|'''Abstract'''}}
Publication	Nature 45 (23) 1243-1275	Title Vol. No. Page(s)
Title of item	The Parkinson's Riddle	In italics
Link	http//www.nature,com
</ref>	</ref>	End of reference

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Discussion pages

Every Topic page has a corresponding Discussion page for freeform dialogue. To initiate/view/take part in a discussion click on Discuss at the top of a Topic page.

The Magazine section

View by Clicking on Magazine Section on the Home Page

Research Tool

On most pages a Research tool can be found at the foot of the Further Reading section. It comprises a series of Click On links to source databases. When you have browsed these you may be able to distil the information into the wiki.

For multi-topic pages the Research tool takes the form of a Table

Tip There is a Template for the simple Research Tool. It can be found at: Template:PDLitSearch

It is used, for example, in PD_Neuroprotection where it looks like this:

Search the scientific literature

Literature search:

Use the following links to query the PubMed, PubMed Central and Google Scholar databases using the Search terms:- Parkinson's_Disease Neuroprotection.

This will list the latest papers on this topic. You are invited to update this page to reflect such recent results, pointing out their significance.

Pubmed (abstracts)

Pubmed_Central (Full_Text)

Google_Scholar

Useful pages

Improve your technical writing skills and techniques.

Add images to wiki pages

Add .pdf files to wiki pages

A guide to wiki editing

Using Templates

Templates are useful when you want the same thing to be repeated on a number of pages, such as a list of related pages. When you create a new related page you only have to add it to the list in the template and it appears automatically in all the pages where you have inserted the template.

E.g.see http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/PD_Neuroprotection/Neuroprotective_agents

The Related Pages part of the corresponding edit page:- http://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=PD_Neuroprotection/Neuroprotective_agents&action=edit&section=5,

The Template page itself:- Template:PD_Neuroprotection_Pages

The End page for that:- http://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Template:PD_Neuroprotection_Pages&action=edit