Editing Help:How to make a Topic 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 ''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. 

== Using the visual editor to add topic 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-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.
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=== 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]].

==Elements of a Topic page==

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File:Category-topics-tag.png|Category-topics-tag.png|The category tag: A tag that assigns your page to the "Topics" category.  
File:Topic-queries-example-narrow.png|The queries: A template which automatically displays all pages that link to your tool page in their infobox. 
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See [[Help:Semantic properties in Personal Science Wiki|Semantic properties in Personal Science Wiki]] for more information.

==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.