Help:Form Article

This is a page for friendly help information about the Article Form. Anyone can update this page with their own observations & tips & tricks for creating articles stored on this site.

Page Content
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Article Metadata
The importance of "metadata" about a article cannot be overstated. If the article has no metadata, and it is an Image Article, then the only way that the article is "found" is via a list of the articles on the wiki. If the article is a Subpage Article, then the article can be "found" by performing full-text searches across the wiki, locating specific words that are on the slides (note: words on an image cannot be 'recognized' by search engines).

The importance of metadata then is essentially concerned with locating articles that are relevant to a viewer's interests. The category:Articles lists the articles in several ways, two of which depend on metadata. Of particular importance are the fields:
 * Description
 * Identifies the "theme" of the article, its "audience" and other general information.


 * Coverage
 * Identifies the "breadth" of the article, e.g., the time-periods of its source information, the real estate sectors that are discussed (residential, commercial, etc).


 * Rights
 * Identifies who & what can be cited/replicated from the article. Some viewers may be interested in articles that are not copyrighted -- by providing this specific information, this wiki attempts to ensure that it is brought to the attention of consumers.


 * Subjects
 * Identifies the "search keywords" applicable to the article. You can use categories that YOU think are best, not just the categories that have already been recorded. In other words, this is a Folksonomy that you can help us create.

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