Twiki Granular Practical User Guide

If you want to contribute to this project you should follow the following steps:

• Register as a regular User

First you have to register. It's very easy: you have just to fill a web form, with some personal information. We at Twiki.Granular won't never give these information to thirds, and we won't abuse of it. We ask them just to track who contributes to the project and to build the Twiki.Granular community, which is a free and open comunity devoted to the research in Granular Physics.

To register now, just click here: TWikiRegistration

• Start to contribute

You can create a page (i.e. a Twiki topic) to present your research, or your group, or just to add your article to the Reasoned Bibliography. This is very simple, just choose a valid name for the page: a valid name is a word with mixed upper and lower case: ex. MyPage, or MyArticle (these are called WikiWord).

Then write this name in the field on the top header or here:

• • Search or Create a topic

If the topic exist, you can read it and, if you want, you can edit it, to add your comments or to update it. Otherwise, if the topic does not exist, you can create it from scratch. You can attach files files to your topic, as figures, movies, data-files, source codes etc etc. Feel free to put whatever you want in your topics (pay just attention to publishing permission).

• Add Articles

You are free to choose the name you like for your topic, if it does not yet exist. However if you want to add your paper to the ReasonedBibliography we suggest to follow the standard convention: ArTYYYYxMM-NameFirstAuthor.

(Eplanation: ArT is a prefix identifying all the topics which are papers of the ReasonedBibliography ; YYYY is paper year of writing, MM is the paper month of writing, NameFirstAuthor is the name of the first author. Example: ArT1905x06EinsteinA ).

Using the field just below, you can find an existing Article or add a new one.

• • Search or create an ArT topic:

When you add an ArT topic, we suggest a minimal ammount of information, consisting in:

1. 1. Full authors names
   2. Title of the paper
   3. Abstract
   4. Reference to printed or electronic review
   5. A brief description according to existing or new Granular Categories.

• Put links in your pages

When you write topics you are highly encouraged to put link to other topics. It's very simple, just write the name of the topic (i.e. its WikiWord) and the page will be automatically linked to that topic.

There are a series of Special topics, called Category Topics (or CaT topics), intended to describe your topic content. For example if you are writing a topic describing your research activities about granular compaction dynamics, you should put a link to the Granular Compaction Category, i.e. a link to the CaTGranularCompaction topic.

The conventional name for Cateogory topic starts with the CaT prefix.

The Category Topics form a conceptual network which is the base for the Reasoned Bibliography. When you edit a topic, you can always browse through the Granular Category Tree, looking at the CategoryIndex (at the base of the edit frame, there is a link that will pop-up a window with the Category Index.)

• Browse the Twiki Granular

Category topics are normal topics, and you are encouraged to add new ones, to fit your needs. However, it is the common interest of the Twiki Community to use as much as possible the existing Categories, to not add duplicates and to keep the Category synthetic as much as possible.

In fact, Category topics can be used to browse the Twiki Granular in a very smart way: Find the Category topic of your interest and then click on the Ref-By link at the bottom of the page. This will give you the list of topics referring to that CaT topic.

This is the principle at the basis of the Reasoned Bibliography.

-- AndreaBaldassarri - 13 Nov 2001