Quick guide

Adding content

To add content, type the intended title of the content page into the Find field on the top of this (or any) page. If content of that title does not exists yet you will be offered the opportunity to create a new page of the given title. By example, if you want to add a page with the title "Scholarship of Teaching and Learning" simply type this string into the Find field. The filename of the created content will be identical to the title (with blanks replaced by underscores).

To add content you need to be a registered user.

If you want to add content which is either

1. a bottleneck description
2. a description of Decoding work
3. bibliographic information on published work

you should add "DecodingWork:" for 1 and 2 or "PublishedWork:" for 3 in front of your title. For instance, if you want to add a bottleneck description related to Diagnosing illness in Medicine and you choose your title to be "Diagnosing illness" the actual title (and filename) should be DecodingWork:Diagnosing illness. Note that here must be no blanks in front of and after the colon.

Editing content

To edit content press the edit bottom (depicted by a pencil) on the page you want to edit. Keep in mind that this is a wiki. Hence, it is absolutely o.k. if you edit pages created by other people. Just stick to the Golden Rule: Edit pages created by other people as you want them to edit pages which you have created.

To edit content you need to be a registered user.

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 recommendations for bottleneck descriptions.
• Template:Decoding work for adding information on Decoding work which extends the 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 classifying 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 describing 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 edit 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. To edit a Category-page first click in the Category-link on the top of your content page (next to the tag icon) which will bring you to the Category-page. Then press Edit.

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 of Category: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, Thermodynamics might be a child of both Mechanical Engineering and Physics.