MILL Wiki Contributor Guide
This Wiki site is powered by MediaWiki, the same software that powers wikipedia and thousands of other websites. MediaWiki provides there own User's Guide which is a comprehansive resource for learning how to navigate, edit and contribute any site powered by MediaWiki, this site included. This page will provide a quick summary of the most important features.
If you are familiar with navigating wikipedia, navigating this site will feel familiar. This site is made up of a network of interlinked pages. Any given page can link to many other pages or have many other pages that link to it. The MILL logo in the top left of the site will be visible on all pages. Clicking the logo will bring you back to the Main Page. Longer pages will have a contents box near the top of the page to help navigate within a given page. A sidebar will appear on the left side of every page. The sidebar contains useful links like “what links here”. Clicking “what links here” from the sidebar of any page will bring up a special page that shows all the other pages that link to the current page. Learn more about navigation by clicking here
Editing
Clicking the edit tab in the top right of any page will bring up the editing interface.
Any edits can be typed directly into the editing box. Text can also be typed up on an external word processor and copy pasted into the editing window. If you would only like to edit an individual section of a page you can click "edit" next to the header of the section.
Clicking preview page will allow you to see how the page will look with the new edits. Clicking see changes will display differences between the current version of the page and the edited version. Adding a short summary to an edit like “fixed typo” or “added information on optical microscopy” helps other users track changes more effectively. Once the page is edited and a short summary is written, click “save page” to save the edits. Learn more about editing pages by clicking here