Help:Getting Started Guide

This page provides a step-by-step guide for getting yourself up and running as a CAZypedia Responsible Curator or Author. If you have already established yourself on CAZypedia and are looking for specific help on editing/authoring pages see Help:Editing instead.

1. Getting started

• If you haven't already done so, open this page in the Mozilla FireFox browser.
  • If you don't have FireFox, you can get it here.
  • (Yes, you can work on CAZypedia in Microsoft Internet Explorer, but it is very inferior, especially when editing CAZypedia pages. Please use FireFox.)

• In FireFox, right-click on this link and select "Open Link in New Tab": Special:Userlogin
  • Opening pages on multiple tabs allows you to quickly jump back-and-forth to read these instructions while as you do other stuff.

2. Create a new user account

• Click on the new tab "Log in / create account" in your browser.

• Click on "Create an account."

• Use your real first and last name as your username. Also, make sure to re-enter your real name in that field.
  • Failure to follow these guidelines will result in your account being blocked.
  • If you make an error and/or the account you created has been blocked, please contact the Primary Curator.

• Enter your current E-mail address.

• Pick a reasonably strong password.

• Type the two words shown in the red captcha box above. (Click on the (?) button in the red box if you need help with the captcha).

• Click the "Create account" button.

3. Make a biography page for yourself

• If you are not automatically logged in, click the "Log in" link at the top right of the page and do so.

• Click on "My talk" at the top of the page. A box will open for you start editing the page.
  • Unsure of what to do?
    • Take a moment to read this page on how to use the editor Help:Editing (right click and "Open Link in New Tab").
    • See for examples (right click and "Open Link in New Tab"). Some good examples of suitable content are User:Withers and User:hbrumer3. Note that you can "borrow" and re-write text from these pages to help while you learn how to format text.

• When you've got some text in place, click the "Save Page" button at the bottom. It's OK to start with a few words (like your name) just to test it out.

• Not happy? Just click the "Edit" tab at the top of the page and change it! (Again and again and again...)

A little general tip: =

You can always have more than one browser window/tab open at a time to look at examples in CAZypedia while you edit another page. You can even open two pages for editing (or "view source") at the same time, so you can copy & paste wiki-text from one to the other. This is a great way to get going quickly and make nice-looking CAZypedia pages.

Regarding curating GH32:

- Have a look at some of the other GH pages: http://www.cazypedia.org/index.php/Category:Glycoside_Hydrolase_Families

- When you are ready to start writing, click this link and update the auto-loaded template. You could even start now by adding your name as curator/author in the heading: http://www.cazypedia.org/index.php/Glycoside_Hydrolase_Family_32

Lots of editing help is available here: http://www.cazypedia.org/index.php/Help:Editing