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Getting Started If you're new to editing a wiki, the best place to start learning editing syntax is the Basic Text Formatting help file.   Below are some links to introduce you to LIMS Wiki: LIMS Wiki Mission Add and Change Requests Glossary of All Pages A Wiki User's Guide MediaWiki FAQ Latest Updates and News April 18, 2011: For future reference, article titles with words should only have the first word capitalized unless there's a proper name included. Also, plurals are frowned upon. For example the proposed title "Interface Groups" should be "Interface group." I'm occasionally guilty of forgetting the naming conventions for wiki article titles also, so don't feel bad. Here are the naming conventions, listed from Wikipedia: Use lower case, except for proper names: The initial letter of a title is almost always capitalized; subsequent words in a title are not, unless they are part of a proper name, and so would be capitalized in running text; when this is done, the title will be simple to link to in other articles: Northwestern University offers more graduate work than a typical liberal arts college. For initial lower case letters, as in eBay, see the technical restrictions page. See also the special rules on capitalization in bird naming. To italicize a title, add the template {{italic title}} near the top of the article: Use of italics should conform to WP:ITALICS. Use the singular form: Article titles are generally singular in form, e.g. Horse, not Horses. Exceptions include nouns that are always in a plural form in English (e.g. scissors or trousers) and the names of classes of objects (e.g. Arabic numerals or Bantu languages). Avoid abbreviations: Abbreviations and acronyms are generally avoided unless the subject is almost exclusively known by its abbreviation (e.g. NATO and Laser). The abbreviation UK, for United Kingdom, is acceptable for use in disambiguation. It is also unnecessary to include an acronym in addition to the name in a title. Avoid definite and indefinite articles: Do not place definite or indefinite articles (the, a and an) at the beginning of titles unless they are part of a proper name (e.g. The Old Man and the Sea) or will otherwise change the meaning (e.g. The Crown). Use nouns: Titles should be nouns or noun phrases. Adjective and verb forms (e.g. democratic, integrate) should redirect to articles titled with the corresponding noun (Democracy]], Integration), although sometimes they will be disambiguation pages, as at Organic. Sometimes the noun corresponding to a verb will be the gerund (-ing form), as in Swimming. Do not enclose titles in quotes: Article titles which are quotes (or song titles, etc.) are not enclosed in quotation marks (e.g. To be, or not to be is the article title, while "To be, or not to be" is a redirect to that article). Do not use titles suggesting that one article forms part of another: Even if an article is considered subsidiary to another (as where summary style is used), it should be named independently. For example, an article on transportation in Azerbaijan should not be given a name like "Azerbaijan/Transportation" or "Azerbaijan (transportation)" – use Transportation in Azerbaijan. (This does not always apply in non-article namespaces: see Help:Subpage.) Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions -Shawn April 15, 2011: We're just now beginning the process of sprucing up the wiki a bit. We primarily want to get the interface set up and consistent, especially on the front page. It'll be a slow and gradual process. Today I set up a wiki page that can be used for users to suggest terms, definitions, and research that need to be added to the wiki. Simply click the "Add and Change Requests" link in the "Getting Started" section above to learn how to add your requests. Stay tuned for more! -Shawn