Help:How to make a Tool page

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 Tool page, the minimum information you need to add is the categorization as a tool. All other templates are optional, though we strongly encourage using them to improve findability.

Elements of a Tool page

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  The category tag: A tag that assigns your page to the "Tools" category.

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  An infobox: A template in which you can add titles of related topic pages. These will become semantic properties of the page and will make the tool show up in the list of linked pages in the infobox of the respective topic. The part "Linked pages on this wiki" shows pages that have this tool as semantic property.

Using the visual editor to add tool 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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  Click on the hamburger menu on the top right of the editor and choose "Categories".

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  Type "Tools" 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.

Adding the infobox

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  Adding the infobox: Click on the "Insert" tab on top of the editor, then pick "Template". Type "Tool Infobox" into the search bar. The template should appear in the autocomplete list.

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  Once you selected the infobox template, click on "Related topics" under "Add more information".

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  Now you can add a list of related topic 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 it on the Topic category overview page. Click "Insert". The infobox should now appear on the right of your page.

Adding further content

All other content can now be added and formatted as you wish. See the Cheatsheet from MediaWiki for formatting help.

Using the source code editor to add tool templates to a page

• Adding the tool category: [[Category:Tools]]
  • We recommend adding this at the bottom of the page,
  • This makes the page show up on the Tools overview page
• Adding the infobox: {{Tool Infobox|Related topics= }}
  • You can enter a list of related topic pages after "Related topics=", separated by commas (e.g. "Related topics=Sleep,Metabolism")
  • We recommend putting this at the top of your page article

See Semantic properties in Personal Science Wiki for more information.

How to turn a page a tool 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 tool tag as specified above. This will put the page in the tool category and remove it from the other categories.