Help and information about to use and maintenance this encyclopedia

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The following information will help you work on this encyclopedia. You may feel that participation in this lexicon as too complicated. We will help you to insert your information. If you need assistance, please write a little note in our forum.

Overview

• How the Mineralienatlas encyclopedia works.

Register and Login

• How to register as a user.
• How to login.

Own user profile (Collectors homepage)

• How to create your collectors homepage?

Create Articles

• Switch the edit mode on and off.
• First steps and learn how to create pages.
• Use the Sandbox and try out whatever you like.
• How the edit window works.
• Create a new page.

Text formatting and special characters

• Chemical formulas.
• Greek letters.
• Special characters.
• Change text color.
• Advanced text formatting.
• How to format text
• How to link to other pages

Images

• How to upload images (Documentation)
• Important notes
• How to use uploaded images (encyclopedia)
• How to view uploaded images (forum) (Discussion, Competitions)
• You like to upload images now - Image transfer

Improvements/ Additional options

• Jump labels.
• Signatures.
• Redirect pages (e.g. Ca -> Calcium etc.)
• Tables.
• Table of contents.
• Book links (ISBN).
• Add references

Minerals, Rocks, Fossils and Localities

• How to create a new locality and what to keep in mind.
• Insert GPS Data of a locality.
• Classify rocks
• Get GPS coordinates from map

Plugins

• How to use additional function?

Classification

• Category/Help and information