EOpedia:Editors Guide
The aim of EOpedia is to provide a source of knowledge for the Earth observation community. It should be the first point of contact for people looking for information about remote sensing and earth observation information. The articles shall provide a brief overview of each topic and links to resources worth further reading. It is not the intention to provide lengthy articles which can compete in completeness with Wikipedia or other sources. At least not in the first place. For now, it is more important to increase the number of articles. Later, after covering a respectable number of topics, the quality and the completeness will be improved. The focus of the articles will continue to be on the Earth observation community. The articles still do not need to cover the whole topic. Instead, it is good if high quality articles available on the internet are referenced. It is also okay to leave out or just describe briefly points which are not relevant for the EO community.
Objectives and Rules
Each article in EOpedia shall contain a concise introduction and the most useful information people are often looking for. For detailed information links shall be provided instead of including the information in the article. If content from other pages is cited, those sources need to be referenced. Wikipedia has put together exceptionally good rules and guidelines for content creator. If questions arise those documentations shall be consulted to clarify questions not explicitly mentioned in this document.
Article Content
Each article shall start with a concise introduction into the topic which provides the main facts to the reader. Further details shall be provided in topic specific subsections. The two sections ‘Useful Resources’ and ‘References’ shall conclude the article. Useful Resources, as the name indicates lists sources which are worth reading and contain further information about the topic. The References contain the citations used in the article. Both do not need to be present, but as mentioned in the introduction, EOpedia provides useful sources, thus usually every article will have those sections. How an article can be structured can be seen in this example article.
Becoming an Editor
In contrast to Wikipedia anonymous editing of articles is not allowed. Also, it is not possible to create an account on your own. This is not to stop you providing content to EOpedia, but hinder others to delete content, add incorrect information or otherwise disturbing the functioning of EOpedia. If you like to participate, add, and enhance content then you are welcome. In this case, read the Request an Account. Before starting to provide content for EOpedia it is important to familiarise yourself with the details of Copyright & License.
How to Edit Articles
MediaWiki provides helpful pages which explain all the tools and techniques on how to create and edit articles.
Enabled and usable Plugins
Visual Editor
The visual editor is enabled and allows easy formatting of the article content in WYSIWYG-style. An introduction on how to use it is provided in the User Guide
Cite
The Cite extensions helps to organise references in an article. See the page on how using Cite for further information.
Modified SimpleMathJax
This is a modified version of SimpleMathJax (github.com). Help on how to format mathematical equation can be found at Formatting using TeX.
DiscussionTools
This extension enables the talk page associated with every wiki page. This page can be used for discussion and communicating with other users. Talk pages can be accessed by clicking the "discussion" tab at the top of the page. Simply edit the page as normal to add your comment.
How the talk pages can be used is explained on the talk pages help page and also on the help page of the Discussion Tool
