The document outlines the process for editing and adding resources on Participedia, a wiki for democratic deliberation and participation. Key steps include registering as a user, determining the type of resource (case, method, or organization), and following specific instructions to either edit an existing page or create a new one. Additional guidance is provided for formatting, linking, and saving changes as needed.

1. Editing Participedia
Robert Richards
November 8, 2012

2. Participedia
 Participedia is a Wiki (similar to Wikipedia) for
democratic deliberation and participation
 Web Address: http://www.participedia.net

3. Help
If you don’t find your answer in the “Help”
pages, email the Participedia help staff at
info@participedia.net

4. Step 1: Register as a User on Participedia
 1. Click Help
 2. Follow the instructions on the Help screen:

5. Step 2: Log-in to Participedia

6. Step 3: Determine the Type of the
Resource that You Want to Add to
or Edit on Participedia
 On your list of Participedia resources to work on,
determine whether the resource you want to edit or
add to Participedia is:
 A Case (an event or activity)
 A Method (a procedure for carrying out a Case)
 An Organization (a group that puts on or contributes to
the putting on of Cases)

7. Step 4: Determine Whether the
Resource You Are Working on Needs to
be Added to Participedia, or Just Edited
 A. Check your list: if the resource you are working on
has a Participedia web address listed, then you’ll be
editing the Participedia page for the resource
 B. If, on your list, the resource you are working on
contains no Participedia web address, search
Participedia to see whether someone has recently
created a Participedia page for the resource

8. Searching Participedia
 To search Participedia, use the Search Box on the
top right corner of the screen

9. Step 4 (continued)
 If the resource you want to work on is NOT listed in
Participedia, then we’ll ADD a new page for the
resource to Participedia.
 If the resource you want to work on IS LISTED in
Participedia, copy the web address of the page into
a document that you can save. We’ll then examine
the Participedia page of the resource, to see whether
it needs to be EDITED.

10. Step 5: Adding a New Page in Participedia
 A. Note whether the resource you want to add is a
Case, Method, or Organization
 B. On the top of the screen, click “Create Content”:

11. Step 5 (continued)
 On the “Create Content” page, select the appropriate
type of resource:

12. Step 5 (continued)
 A. Assume you’re adding a Case. On the “Create
Case” page, type in the “Name of project” (that
means the title of the page), choose the language of
your page, and in the “Summary” field, write a short
summary of the Case.

13. Step 5 (continued)
 Save your work often: scroll to the bottom of the
page and on the left, click “Save.”
 To see how your page looks to the public, click
“Preview”

14. Step 5 (continued)
 Scroll to the top of the page. Just below the
“Summary” box, set “Completeness” to “partial”, and
in the “Tags” field, add keywords that describe the
Case:

15. Step 5 (continued)
 Fill out each section of the “Overview” tab, in the
window called “Article Body”

16. Step 5 (continued)
 Use the editing icons to format the text and add
links:

17. Step 5 (continued)
 When linking to sources OUTSIDE of
Participedia, don’t link directly in the text;
instead, add links in the “Secondary Sources” and
“External Links” sections:

18. Step 5 (continued)
 When linking to sources IN Participedia, link to them
directly in the text, using the “Link” editing icon:

19. Step 5 (continued)
 To edit the source code, scroll down to “Text
Format,” and choose “Plain Text”:

20. Step 5 (continued)
 After editing source code, change “Text Format”
back to “Filtered HTML”:

21. Step 5 (continued)
 Fill out the information in the other tabs, and add an
image using the “Images” tab:

22. Step 5 (continued)
 In the public display, the information in the tabs is
shown in the “Case Data” box on the right screen:

23. Step 6: Editing an Existing Page
 A. Be sure you are logged in
 B. Display the page
 C. On the top left screen, click the “Edit” tab:

24. Questions?
 Check the Participedia “Help” section
 Email the Participedia help staff at
info@participedia.net
 Contact: Robert Richards, rcr5122@psu.edu