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
Adding the infobox
The Topic category has no infobox. For more information, see Semantic properties in Personal Science Wiki.
Adding the Topic Queries
Type "Topic Queries" into the search bar. The template should appear in the autocomplete list. Choose the template and click "Insert". Do not add anything under "add more information". The queries will be automatically filled when another page refers to your page in their infobox. The Topic Queries template should now appear on the bottom 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 topic templates to a page
- Adding the topic category:
[[Category:Topics]]
- We recommend adding this at the bottom of the page,
- This makes the page show up on the Topics overview page
- Adding the footer queries:
{{Topic Queries}}
- We recommend adding this at the bottom of the page
- The Topic category has no infobox. For more information, see Semantic properties in Personal Science Wiki.
Elements of a Topic page
See 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.