Quick guide

Templates

In order to create content you might wish to use one of the following templates:

• Template:Bottleneck for adding a bottleneck description. See Mechanical slip for an example. When contributing a bottleneck please avoid vague descriptions and follow the guidelines for bottleneck descriptions.
• Template:Decoding work for adding information on Decoding work which extends to mere description of a bottleneck. See Group activities in interactive teaching for an example.
• Template:PublishedWork for adding bibliographical data about published work on Decoding. See Decoding group activities in interactive teaching for an example.
• Template:Benutzerseite for adding information about a person engaged in Decoding work (usually yourself). See David Pace for an example.
• Template:Resource-File for sharing research data related to Decoding work. See File:Transcript-groupactivities.pdf for an example.

You don't have to adhere to the templates. Feel free to add or remove sections as needed. However, it is helpful if you take care in providing information on Categories.

Adding categories

By adding categories you add structural information which feeds into pages like

• Category:Decoding work which sorts Decoding work by discipline
• Category:PublishedWork which sorts literature by authors, discipline and type of publication
• Category:Person which sorts users by discipline

Say, you have created a page on your Decoding work which relates to the academic discipline of Blablaology and more specifically to the subfield Traxoline. By adding your page to the categories "Blablaology" and "Traxoline" the page will be listed under the respective categories in Category:Decoding work.

To add your page to a category click on the tag symbol on the top of your page when you are not in editing mode. As you type the name of the category which you want to add you will see whether this category already exists. In this case simply choose the existing category. Otherwise type return after you have fully entered the name of the category. This will create a new category.

Alternatively, editing the source code you can type [[Category:NAME]] at any place (preferably at the bottom). In the case of the above example you would type [[Category:Blablaology]] and [[Category:Traxoline]].

Let's assume that the category Traxoline did not exist before and you have just created it. In order to tell the system that Traxoline is a subcategory of Blablaology you go to the Category-page of Traxoline (named Category:Traxoline) and add "Blablaology" as a category. Likewise you add "Decoding work" as a category on the page Category:Blablaology if you have created Blablaoloy as a new category.

Technically, you always have to add the parent categories. More specifically, you add all the ancestor categories on which category pages you want your page to be listed. For instance, Textual descriptions in mathematics is categorized into Category:Set theory (technically its parent) and Category:Mathematics (technically its grandparent, i.e. parent ofCategory:Set theory).

To view category trees go to Special:CategoryTree and type "Decoding work", "PublishedWork", or "Person" respectively into the Category-field.

Also note that in the categorization scheme used here a category can have more than one parent. For instance,, Cathegory:History is a child of (among others) Category:Decoding work and Category:Person. "Group theory" might be a child of both Mathematics and Physics.