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This wiki offers a couple of templates that help maintain a consistent style, categorization and automatic linking through semantic information. If you want a new page to be a ''People'' page, the minimum information you need to add is the categorization as a project. All other templates are optional, though we strongly encourage using them to improve findability.
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To create a new people page, you can either use the [[Form:People|People form]] or create it manually by pasting the following markdown elements to a page.  
  
 
==Elements of a People page==
 
==Elements of a People page==
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* <nowiki>{{People Infobox|Related tools=|Related topics=}}</nowiki>
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** Add this to the top of the page, after the leading text.
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** You can enter a list of related tool or topic pages after "Related tools=" or "Related topics=", separated by commas.
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** [[Template:People Infobox|Link to the People Infobox template]]
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* <nowiki>{{People Queries}}</nowiki>
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** Add this to the bottom of the page.
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** [[Template:People Queries|Link to the People Queries template]]
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* <nowiki>[[Category:People]]</nowiki>
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** Add this to the bottom of the page, below the People Queries.
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** This tag makes the page show up on the [[:Category:People|People overview page]]
  
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==How to make a page a people page if it already has elements of a different category?==
File:Category-people-tag.png|Category-projects-tag.png|The category tag: A tag that assigns your page to the "People" category.
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Remove any templates and category tags of other categories and add the People page elements specified above.
File:People-infobox-example.png|An infobox: A template in which you can add titles of related topic and tool pages as semantic properties. This will make this person show up in the infobox of the respective pages. Projects that list this person as self-researcher in their infobox show up under "Linked pages on this wiki".
 
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== Using the visual editor to add project templates to a page ==
 
Depending on how you ended up on the page creation form the visual editor should already be the default. Otherwise, the visual editor can be found under the ''"Create"'' tab on the top right/middle of the page. A step-by-step guide of how to add all the right templates and information can be seen in the galleries below.
 
 
 
===Adding the category===
 
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File:Set-page-category.png|Click on the hamburger menu on the top right of the editor and choose ''"Categories"''.
 
File:Set-people-category.png|Type ''"People"'' into the search bar and click "enter". The category tag should appear in the autocomplete option. If the category title is red, please check the spelling. Click ''"Apply changes"''. Now the category tag should appear on the bottom of your page.
 
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=== Adding the infobox ===
 
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File:Insert-template.png|Adding the infobox: Click on the ''"Insert"'' tab on top of the editor, then pick ''"Template"''. Type ''"Project Infobox"'' into the search bar. The template should appear in the autocomplete list.
 
File:People-infobox-properties.png|Once you selected the infobox template, click on all the properties that appear under ''"Add more information"'' ("Related tools", "Related topics").
 
File:People-infobox-add-properties.png|Now you can add lists of related pages, separated by commas. As of now, there is no autocomplete option for that. If you are not sure about the title of the pages you want to link to, you can verify them on the respective category overview pages. Click "Insert". The infobox should now appear on the right of your page.
 
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===Adding further content===
 
All other content can now be added and formatted as you wish. See the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cheatsheet Cheatsheet] from MediaWiki for formatting help.
 
 
 
==Using the source code editor to add project templates to a page==
 
 
 
* Adding the '''people category''': <code><nowiki>[[Category:People]]</nowiki></code>
 
** We recommend adding this at the bottom of the page,
 
** This makes the page show up on the [[:Category:People|People overview page]]
 
* Adding the '''infobox''': <code><nowiki>{{People Infobox|Related tools=|Related topics=}}</nowiki></code>
 
** You can enter a list of tool (after "Related tools="), and topic pages (after "Related topics="), separated by commas. For example: <code><nowiki>{{People Infobox|Related tools=Anki|Related topics=Spaced Repetition, Learning}}</nowiki></code>
 
** We recommend putting this at the top of your page article
 
 
 
==How to turn a page a people page if it already in a different category?==
 
 
 
You can change the categorization of a page by removing any existing infobox/footer templates and category tags from a page and instead replace with (at least) the project category tag as specified above. This will put the page in the project category and remove it from the other categories.
 
 
 
== What is the difference between a ''"User:NAME-OF-SELF-RESEARCHER"'' and a ''"NAME-OF-SELF-RESEARCHER"'' page? ==
 
 
 
People pages with and without the prefix "User:" have the same purpose: To document work and interests of self-researchers. The prefix "User:" signifies that the person that this page refers to is a user of this wiki. Some, or maybe even most of the users of this wiki might also do self-research themselves, and want to document their work here. Users are free to make a "People" page of their "User:" page, but it is not mandatory. Thus, a People page ''without'' the prefix "User:" is a page somebody made about a third person, who is probably not a user of the wiki. People pages ''with'' the prefix are pages users made about themselves (while it is also possible for other users to create and edit user pages of another user).
 

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