Lexipedium:Getting started

As a new user of Lexipedium, there are important things that you should know about the wiki when contributing to it. First, contributing is very easy. All you need to do is make edits to pages. Do not be intimidated by the focus on reliability and approval of new edits. The only thing that the peer review process does is preventing inaccurate information from being served to readers. You should also know that every single contribution that you make on the wiki is logged and any deletions are completely reversible. If you make extensive contributions to a page and another user deletes them, they are still saved in the page history, which is where literally every revision of the page can be found. Even if a page is deleted, it is still saved, although the contents can only be accessed by administrators unless it is undeleted.

Editing an existing article
To begin contributing to an article, go to the page that you want to edit and click the edit button at the top. You will be taken to a screen that displays the source code of the page. You can begin editing the text of the article. When you are finished, click "Show preview" and then "Save page" to view what the page will look like and then to save it.

Viewing the changes
Unlike other wikis, new contributions to articles must be approved by experts before they are displayed. This will result in a short delay between the time that you make an edit and the time that it begins to show up for readers.

More information
 * Lexipedium:Reviewer

Citing sources
In order for your contributions to be accepted into an article, you will need to provide citations from reputable sources for the claims that you make.

More information
 * Lexipedium:Citations
 * Lexipedium:Sources