Getting started

This page will give you an overview of how to get started and what guidelines to follow.

References / Bibliography

There is one global page where all bibliography entries need to be inserted: Bibliography. You can also find a link to this page in the navigation menu on the left.

To add a new entry, do the following:

1. Follow APA citation style using Google Scholar to adequately format your bib entry. For example:

Kirchner, E., Wallmersperger, T., Gwosch, T., Menning, J. D., Peters, J., Breimann, R., ... & Stahl, K. (2024). A Review on Sensor‐Integrating Machine Elements. Advanced Sensor Research, 3(4), 2300113.

1. Edit the Bibliography page by clicking on Edit source in the upper right corner.
2. Find a unique indentifier for your bib entry in the format AuthorLastnameYYYY. If necessary, add a letter (a, b, c, ...) the end.
3. Insert your fomatted bib entry and surround the entry and your unique identifier by: <ref name="Grazer2015"> ... </ref> → <ref name="Grazer2015">Grazer, Brian, and Charles Fishman. A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015.</ref>
4. Save the changes you made.

To reference in the text, do the following:

First, you have to make sure that the page you are editing already transcludes the bibliography. If not sure, do the following:

1. Edit source → Check bottom of the page for this snippet: ==Literature== <references> {{Bibliography}} </references>
2. Insert your reference(s) by using this command: <ref name="Grazer2015" </>.

Important note: Insert references ONLY in the Edit source mode. Referencing in Edit mode breaks the link to the bibliography.

Example: This is a text from Grazer and Fishman

File uploads

It is essential to only use the UploadWizard for file uploads.

Please do not use the function embedded in the editor of wiki pages (Insert → Images and media). With this simple file upload function, some essential meta data is missing, e.g. licenses.

To upload files, follow this workflow:

1. Open the UploadWizard. You can also access it via the quicklink on the left page margin (Wiki tools → Upload file).
2. Upload your file.
3. Choose the appropriate license.
4. Specifiy the meta data.
5. Insert your media using the function in the editor: Insert → Images and media. Choose your recently uploaded file from the list. Do not use this function to upload any files!

This image shows the 'upload' step of the UploadWizard.

This image shows the 'Release rights' step of the UploadWizard. Choose the appropriate license.

This image shows the 'Describe' step of the UploadWizard. Specifiy all meta data as precisely as possible.

This image shows the how to insert uploaded images in a wiki page.