Biocrawler:Welcome, newcomers
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What is Biocrawler.com?
Biocrawler.com is an encyclopedia written collaboratively. It's our aim to offer a scientific encyclopedia, which can be understood by everyone. The Wiki technology makes this Wiki editable by anyone without programming skills.
The content of Biocrawler.com is under the GNU Free Documentation License. This means that the content may be copied and used for free if the source and author is mentioned (and a link to www.biocrawler.com).
Have fun and thank you for your contribution!
The Biocrawler Team
Editing
Everyone can edit pages in Biocrawler. You don't need anything special. If you want to experiment first, without risk of "messing up" a real article, head over to the sandbox, where you can practice editing to your heart's content. To practice editing an existing page like this one, just copy and paste it from the article's edit page into the sandbox.
Policies
We've got a few policies and guidelines that you should look at. The three most essential principles are NPOV, GFDL, and civility. What does this mean?
- Biological orientation: Please edit each page being aware that this is a biological Wiki. Actors might do ecological or medical charity work. One car will have different pollution level than another. Wars will have a negative impact on the environment, like Gulf War I with its burning oilfields, or have an impact on population dynamics of affected species [aka humans]. Mathematics/Physics is used within biological modelling. If you are 100% sure that an article has no biological relevance whatsoever, please suggest it for deletion giving full reasons why you can not imagine that this article has no biological relevance on itself or can not be seen to be interesting background information for another article that is more obviously biologically relevant.
- NPOV, or neutral point of view means that articles should not be biased, and should represent differing views on a subject fairly.
- All contributions to Biocrawler are released under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). This specifically ensures that Biocrawler will remain freely distributable in perpetuity. Please do not submit any content that is copyrighted without permission of the copyright holder. (See Copyrights for more information).
- Civility. Biocrawler works by cooperation, and therefore mutual respect, civility, and wikilove should be practiced universally. Please assume good faith when you disagree with someone, stay cool, and talk things over civilly. It is good practice to provide an edit summary explaining your changes so as to assist others with noticing and accepting your changes. If you find that your edits get removed or modified, wait a moment before reinstating them. First check the page history, your talk page, or the article's talk page to discuss. See also Wikiquette.
Don't be discouraged
If you run into conflicts in your first forays into editing, then don't let it get you down. In any collaborative project there are clashes. Have a look at the writers' rules of engagement page as well as the other articles in the tutorial wing below. Use them to help you resolve the problems and learn how to become an active and productive contributor.
