Help:Contents
From SABR Encyclopedia
(Difference between revisions)
(→Advanced Topics: created administrative topics section) |
|||
Line 39: | Line 39: | ||
* [[Help:Sabr-lightbox-link parser function]] - How (and why) the custom parser function works | * [[Help:Sabr-lightbox-link parser function]] - How (and why) the custom parser function works | ||
* [[Help:Creating pop up help boxes]]: Technical help page to help administrators create pop up boxes | * [[Help:Creating pop up help boxes]]: Technical help page to help administrators create pop up boxes | ||
- | + | * [[:Category:Pop-up help boxes]]: List of pages that are designed to be used in pop ups | |
- | + | ||
- | * [[:Category:Pop-up help boxes]] | + |
Revision as of 17:53, 21 December 2009
This page will link to all help pages, as they are created. If there is a topic that you think should be covered, please add a note to the discussion page (see tab at top).
Contents |
Basic editing
- How to edit a page - Basics on syntax, editing, and saving.
- Citing sources - Help on including citations from different sources, and how to create footnotes
- Structure of non-person articles
- Linking to people - Adding links to people who may or may not be in the encyclopedia
- Adding a page for a person - How and when to create a page for a person not represented in the Encyclopedia
- Editing biographical information - How and when to update biographical information
- How to use discussion pages - What to put there, why to put it there, how to put it.
- Categorizing - How to place pages into categories for organization.
- Math formulas - How to insert math formulas into articles on statistics.
- Discussion pages - Why there are "Talk" pages for articles, and how to use them.
Projects
- Writing about a person - Writing short biographies and summaries of players is a non-technical research project good for those who know some players well.
- Formatting collegiate baseball articles - A technical project of organization good for those comfortable with wikitext.
- Adding pictures to articles - A mildly technical project good for those who do pictorial research.
Advanced Topics
- Help:Cleanup resources: Using the templates and categories provided to organize pages requiring cleanup and improvement.
- Help:Disagreement: How to deal with unresolved disagreements when sources provide conflicting information.
- Help:Reviewing revisions: Guidelines for reviewers evaluating contributed edits.
- Help:People: General guidelines and information about pages referring to people.
- Help:Structure of person articles - Explains what you see when you edit an article whose subject is a person, and where to put information
- Help:Editing People Pages: Some how-tos for common situations that arise when doing biographical research.
- Help:Naming conventions (people): Naming conventions for pages referring to people.
- Help:Categories for people: Categories organizing people by roles inside and outside of baseball, and templates for placing person articles in those categories.
- Help:College names: Standard names for colleges and universities for use in infoboxes for people.
- Help:Ballparks: General guidelines and information about pages referring to ballparks.
- Help:External links: The Encyclopedia aims to organize existing information as well as provide an authoritative resource. Here are some guidelines for external linking.
- Help:Naming conventions - Very technical guidelines on names of pages, templates, variables, etc.
- SABR Encyclopedia:Job Jar: Looking for ways to help move the project forward in your spare time, without a long-term commitment? The Job Jar lists helpful tasks which can be accomplished in seconds or minutes.
- SABR Encyclopedia:Projects: Larger projects in progress, or in need of someone to launch or take over.
Administrative topics
These articles are for the people responsible for taking care of technical issues in the Encyclopedia, and are not related to the process of doing research here.
- SABR Encyclopedia:Design issues: Conceptual issues arising in designing and organizing the information on hundreds of thousands of pages.
- Help:Sabr-lightbox-link parser function - How (and why) the custom parser function works
- Help:Creating pop up help boxes: Technical help page to help administrators create pop up boxes
- Category:Pop-up help boxes: List of pages that are designed to be used in pop ups