CAZypedia needs your help!
We have many unassigned pages in need of Authors and Responsible Curators. See a page that's out-of-date and just needs a touch-up? - You are also welcome to become a CAZypedian. Here's how.
Scientists at all career stages, including students, are welcome to contribute.
Learn more about CAZypedia's misson here and in this article.
Totally new to the CAZy classification? Read this first.
Help:Contents
Quick links
MediaWiki is the engine that drives CAZypedia. These links provide an overview of the basic "markup" (formatting rules) that CAZypedia uses:
- Basic editing & markup
- More markup examples - including inserting pictures
- Advanced editing - all kinds of cool stuff, including making links, math, special characters, and templates.
- There's even a handy printable reference card.
Making life a bit easier: The wikEd editor in CAZypedia
- CAZypedia uses an advanced editor called wikEd, which can be used to add most of the markup listed on the pages above, and therefore greatly simplifies making and editing CAZypedia pages. Some current features include (from the main wikEd page:
- Wikicode syntax highlighting
- Pasting, import, and conversion of formatted text, e.g. from Microsoft-Word and web pages
- Regular expression search and replace
- Edit preview and show changes on the same page without reloading
- Fullscreen editing mode
- Single-click fixing of common mistakes
- History for summary, search, and replace fields
- Jump to selected heading
- Type-ahead find
The wikEd help page contains a tutorial and full details on the function of all of the buttons in wikEd.
- Tip: If you plan to cut and paste formatted text into CAZypedia, make sure to become familiar with the "Wikify" button!
References to the literature
- There are special features to help add literature references to CAZypedia entries; for detailed instructions, please see the Help:References page.
Confused?
...or just need more background?
- Information on the purpose and goals of CAZypedia can be found on the About page.
- If you are new to the wiki concept, see this page?
- To make or edit pages, you must have a user account. However, all contributors must be approved by the Board of Curators
- Before requesting permission to contribute, please read CAZypedia's general editing and authoring guidelines on the CAZypedia:About page.
- You can also read about CAZypedia's current copyright and privacy policies.
Some other links
...more for administrators & power users
Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.