Guidelines

Become a Contributor

To become a contributor, click "Create Account" on the upper right hand side of the page, and send an email introducing yourself to webmaster Kevin Robertson including your user ID and real name. Contributors unknown to the webmaster will not be retained. It is suggested that you make the user ID short (e.g., your initials) as it will be used to cite contributions with a link to your contributor page, explained below.

Overview

Contributions to Coastal Plain Plants can be made in various ways:

1) Edit pages directly using the guidelines below.

2) Request a plant species form as a Word (docx) file, edit the form and submit to Kevin Robertson for incorporation into the website.

3) Submit other sources of information, such as notes or spreadsheets containing relevant data about plants, for incorporation into the website.

4) Volunteer to be interviewed about your knowledge on certain plants by contacting Kevin Robertson.

Editing

Coastal Plain Plants uses a Wikimedia platform, the same as used for Wikipedia. To edit pages, login, then click the "Edit" tab or and of the "Edit" hyperlinks on pages. If you are not familiar with editing in Wikimedia, a good place to start is this tutorial. Many more sophisticated commands can be searched online. Some basic commands are:

''italic''

'''bold'''

'''''bold italic'''''

=Heading=

== Subheading ==

=== Sub-subheading ===

pipe "|" divider: SHIFT + BACKSLASH

: single indent

:: double indent, etc.

Adding a thumbnail: [[File:name_of_file|thumb|left|caption text]] The orientation and caption text do not need to be included.