Manifold Atlas:Uploading PDF files

Revision as of 16:56, 20 September 2009

1 When to upload PDF files

• You should upload PDF files when:
  • you need a more mathematically sophisticated layout than the Atlas supports,
  • you wish to give a calculation or an agrument for a statement not already in the literature,
  • you wish to give a new calculation or argument for a statement already in the literature.
• Uploading PDF files allow users to contribute authored, original content to open-editing pages.
• Users are encouraged, e. g. to provide new computations of invariants, new proofs of existing results and even new results.
• Please provide your name and institutional address (if applicable) in the PDF file in order to be cited properly.

2 How to upload PDF files

• Make sure the PDF file is ready on your local computer.
• Insert a link into the page you are writing of the form

[[Media:Filename.pdf|link text]]

• The filename need not coincide with the filename on your local computer: it is the name the uploaded file in the Manifold Atlas.
• The link will appear in red on the page.
• Click the link: you are presented with form where you can upload the PDF file from your local computer.
• Once you have uploaded a file to the Manifold Atlas, subsequent clicks on the link will open the PDF document for viewing.
• To replace the file with a newer version,
  • type http://www.map.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/File:Filename.pdf in your browser's address bar.
  • This presents you with a page listings all revisions of this file and lets you upload a new revision.