Help:HowToAddATrail
Trails
Adding an trail
If you happen upon this site and notice that your local favorite trail is not posted then...
To add this item, you should first make sure it is appropriate for the site, then make sure it has not been added before. You can read more about those steps below. To simply add the new item, click on the 'Add a trail' link here or on the left side of the page.
- Note that the page name must be preceded by Trail: to put it into the trail namespace.
- Hit the create/edit button and enter into the form the following values:
- Singletrack (percentage): 10%
- FireRoad (percentage): 20%
- Paved Road (percentage): 70%
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Location:
- Overview: This is a really neat trail. It has it all!
- Directions: Take 101 South from Santa barbara and head towards the mountains
- Typical Conditions: Muddy, rocky, wet
- Current Conditions: HOT! HOT! HOT!
When you click 'Preview', you'll be taken to the preview page for that item. If everything looks alright, just hit "Save page" to enter that item in the database. That's it! For more details on what's going on, continue reading below.
The fields
- For more information, see Help:Categories
- For more information, see Help:Location
The "URL" and "date" fields are fairly straightforward. For the quote, you should pick a one-to-five-sentence snippet, from the body of the column itself, that captures the point of view and tone of the column. Feel free to look through other items in Discourse DB for a sense of quoting style. As to source and author, there may be some ambiguity here - should it be "United States Times" or "The United States Times"? Should the author be "Christopher D. Example" or "Christopher Example" ? Or "Chris Example"? Thankfully, the auto-complete feature in the "Add item" form will help fill in values that already appear in the database. If there are no previous entries for this author or source, you should look on Wikipedia to see how they are referred to there; general Discourse DB style is to copy Wikipedia's naming conventions whenever possible. If the author and/or source don't appear in either Discourse DB or Wikipedia, go with whatever name you think makes the most sense.
The "topic" and "position" fields are both optional, but to add them in, see Help:Topics and Help:Positions for an explanation of these two concepts. To decide on the topic name, you should use the same methodology described for sources and authors: first, see if the auto-complete feature offers a reasonable possibility, then, if that fails, on Wikipedia. For the position name, if it doesn't already exist in Discourse DB, try to match the style of existing position names.
Thanks to the use of forms, all of which are enabled by the Semantic Forms extension, actually adding and editing these pages simply involves filling out form inputs. -->
Refreshing data
You may notice, after adding or modifying an opinion item, that the new item or modified data do not appear where they should appear, in a topic page, position page, author page, etc. That's most likely because the data that appears in that page is cached from before. You can make the new data appear by hitting the "refresh" tab at the top of this pag
Elevation Image
Unfortunately I haven't yet updated the semantic form to add a field for the elevation image. So you need to add it manually. This is easy. On any trail click the "edit" (not the "edit with form") tab. Look for "|DefaultImage=FileName.jpg". Just below that add "|ElevationImage=FileName.png". Just look at any trail with an elevation image for an example.