Editing PyMOL Wiki:Community Portal (section)

== Making Edits ==
Please feel free to upload ideas, suggestions, scripts, images, examples, hints, tips -- you name it.  If it's PyMOL-related, we'll take it!
* Learn how to use MediaWiki.  See [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing MediaWiki's Editing Page].
* Feel free to upload images (even big ones).
** Be warned, you have to agree that you own the image and are releasing it under a certain open license.  You must agree to this before uploading the images.
** If you do not own the image or have permission to post it, please don't.

=== Editing ===
* Learn how to insert links.  [[Main_Page|Internal (wiki) links]] and [http://pymol.org/ external links].
** [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Link Link Documentation]
* Learn how to link to a category and also how to make a page a part of a category.
** [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Category Category Documentation]
* Learn how to use sectioning <nowiki>'''==Title=='''</nowiki> is an example.
* Learn how to upload images & insert them into your pages
* Learn how to insert source code:
** Example 1: Python Code
{| align="center"
! style="font-size:150%; text-decoration:underline; text-align: center;" | You Type || style="font-size:150%; text-decoration:underline; text-align:center"| We See
|- 
| style="padding: 3em;" |<nowiki><source lang="python"></nowiki><br />
<nowiki># your python code goes here</nowiki><br />
<nowiki># for example:</nowiki><br />
<nowiki>for x in cmd.get_names(): print x</nowiki><br />
<nowiki></source></nowiki><br />
| style="padding: 3em;"| <source lang="python">
# your python code goes here
# for example:
for x in cmd.get_names(): print x
</source>
|}
* Example 2: BASH Code with Line Numbers
{| align="center"
! style="font-size:150%; text-decoration:underline; text-align: center;" | You Type || style="font-size:150%; text-decoration:underline; text-align:center"| We See
|-
|style="padding: 3em;" | <nowiki><source lang="bash" line="1"></nowiki><br />
<nowiki># your bash code goes here</nowiki><br />
<nowiki># for example:</nowiki><br />
<nowiki>sudo python setup.py install</nowiki><br />
<nowiki>sudo python setup2.py install</nowiki><br />
<nowiki>sudo cp ./pymol /usr/local/bin</nowiki><br />
<nowiki></source></nowiki><br />
| style="padding: 3em;" |<source lang="bash" line="1">
# your bash code goes here
# for example:
sudo python setup.py install
sudo python setup2.py install
sudo cp ./pymol /usr/local/bin
</source>
|}
* Learn how to insert math.  It's formatted in [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Formula LaTeX]:
{| align="center"
! style="font-size:150%; text-decoration:underline; text-align: center;" | You Type || style="font-size:150%; text-decoration:underline; text-align:center"| We See
|-
| style="padding: 3em;" |<nowiki><math>dist(A,B) = \sqrt { \sum_i { \left( A_i - B_i \right)^2 } }</math></nowiki><br />
| style="padding: 3em;" |<math>dist(i,j) = \sqrt{ \sum_i { \left( A_i - B_i \right)^2 } }</math>
|}
* Learn how to write tables.  This is more advanced & takes a bit to time to learn & a lifetime to master.

=== Content ===
* The wiki has lots of technical content.
* We need more user-friendly content
** We also need content for non-structural biologists