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How to help

Oceancyclopedia is built by scientists, undergrad to emeritus, like you, and there are tons of ways to help! For details on the specific contributor titles, see Contributors.

Contribute to a page

Each page was written by a human expert on the topic. If there's a topic you feel qualified to speak on, or have been fascinated by recently, contribute to it! You can edit existing pages or start a new one. There are currently tons of blank pages, which we hope will help prompt content. Any red link is an uncreated page, and if you're interested in it, that person could be you.

If you need to upload an image or some sort of media, use Special:Upload, then reference it in your text as thumb|caption.

Lexicon

Contribute a definition! These, ideally, are a paragraph or less, and could include graphics.

Data wiki

Model wiki

See Model wiki template for a blank template to use for new page generation.

Curate a topic

Contact information for the main folks on this project

Web maintenance, Oceancyclopedia co-creator: Kate Evans (USC), evansk@usc.edu

Oceancyclopedia co-creator: Hagen aka. HagiBucknWise Buck-Wiese (USC), buckwies@usc.edu

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 Each page was written by a human expert on the topic. If there's a topic you feel qualified to speak on, or have been fascinated by recently, contribute to it! You can edit existing pages or start a new one. There are currently tons of blank pages, which we hope will help prompt content. Any red link is an uncreated page, and if you're interested in it, that person could be you.
-If you need to upload an image or some sort of media, use [[Upload file]], then reference it in your text as [[imageName.png|thumb|caption]].
+If you need to upload an image or some sort of media, use [[Special:Upload]], then reference it in your text as [[imageName.png|thumb|caption]].
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