Editing Help:How to make a Topic page

To create a new topic page, you can either use the [[Form:Topic|Topic form]] or create it manually by pasting the following markdown elements to a page. 

==Elements of a Topic page==
* <nowiki>{{Topic Queries}}</nowiki>
** Add this to the bottom of the page.
** [[Template:Topic Queries|Link to the Topic Queries template]]
* <nowiki>[[Category:Topics]]</nowiki>
** Add this to the bottom of the page, below the Topic Queries.
** This tag makes the page show up on the [[:Category:Topics|Topics overview page]]

==How to make a page a Topic page if it already has elements of a different category?==
Remove any templates and category tags of other categories and add the Topic page elements specified above.

==Why does this category not have an infobox like the others?==
Topics are the broadest category; the more specific categories (Tools, Projects, People), can have topics as properties in their infobox, but not the other way round. If you want to connect a topic with a tool, person, or project, please go to the respective page and add the topic to the list of "related topics" in their infobox.
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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 ''Topic'' 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.
+To create a new topic page, you can either use the [[Form:Topic|Topic form]] or create it manually by pasting the following markdown elements to a page.
 ==Elements of a Topic page==
+* <nowiki>{{Topic Queries}}</nowiki>
+** Add this to the bottom of the page.
+** [[Template:Topic Queries|Link to the Topic Queries template]]
+* <nowiki>[[Category:Topics]]</nowiki>
+** Add this to the bottom of the page, below the Topic Queries.
+** This tag makes the page show up on the [[:Category:Topics|Topics overview page]]
-<gallery widths=300px>
+==How to make a page a Topic page if it already has elements of a different category?==
-File:Category-topics-tag.png|Category-topics-tag.png|The category tag: A tag that assigns your page to the "Topics" category.
+Remove any templates and category tags of other categories and add the Topic page elements specified above.
-File:Topic-infobox.png|A template that shows all pages that link to this topic page (i.e. all pages for which a user entered this topic as 'related topic' in a tool, project, or people infobox).
-</gallery>
-== Using the visual editor to add topic templates to a page ==
+==Why does this category not have an infobox like the others?==
-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.
+Topics are the broadest category; the more specific categories (Tools, Projects, People), can have topics as properties in their infobox, but not the other way round. If you want to connect a topic with a tool, person, or project, please go to the respective page and add the topic to the list of "related topics" in their infobox.
-===Adding the category===
-<gallery>
-File:Set-page-category.png|Click on the hamburger menu on the top right of the editor and choose ''"Categories"''.
-File:Set-topics-category.png|Type ''"Topics"'' 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.
-</gallery>
-=== Adding the infobox ===
-* Click on the "Insert" button in the top menu bar, then click on "Template".
-* Type "Topic Infobox" in the search bar. Select the element and click "Insert".
-===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 topic templates to a page==
-* Adding the '''topic category''': <code><nowiki>[[Category:Topics]]</nowiki></code>
-** We recommend adding this at the bottom of the page,
-** This makes the page show up on the [[:Category:Topics|Topics overview page]]
-* Adding the '''topic infobox''': <code><nowiki>{{Topic Infobox}}</nowiki></code> at the top of the page
-** This makes the infobox with backlinks to this topic from other pages on this wiki show up.
-** It is not possible to add properties to topic pages. For more information, see [[Help:Semantic properties in Personal Science Wiki|Semantic properties in Personal Science Wiki]].
-==How to turn a page to a topic 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 topic category tag as specified above. This will put the page in the topic category and remove it from the other categories.