Data Cleanup Instructions
General Information about this wiki
• This Wiki’s content was donated by Steve Wells, who has singlehandedly compiled an amazing resource site called the Skeptics Annotated Bible. Without his exhaustive work and generosity, this project would never have been possible.
• The wiki tracks changes, and can easily be reverted to prior versions — so you’re not going to break anything that can’t be fixed.
• The wiki uses a small set of tags to format text. It’s called PMCode. You can read about it here. Understanding this will make the following much easier.
• This page is a wiki page. You can edit it, too! Please feel free to add helpful information. And check back to see the latest changes.
Becoming a Contributor
We are trying to limit the number of contributors to The Scripture Project so that it includes reliable and relevant information. In order to edit the pages three things need to happen:
• You need to be a member of Samharris.org, or Reasonproject.org.
• You need to apply to become a contributor to the Scripture Project.
• You need to be approved as a contributor to the Scripture Project.
How to Apply to Become a Contributor
1. In the upper right is a black box. If it says “Hello Guest” and you are not a member of SamHarris.org, click on the “Become a Member” link. Sign up to become a member and come back to the Wiki URL http://www.reasonproject.org/index_ee.php/scripture_project
Or, click here to become a member
2. If your name appears in the upper-right click on the “Become a Contributor” link and fill out the contributor form.
Or, click here to access the contributor form
3. You will receive an email when you are approved. Then you can start editing pages!
Here’s how to edit a page:
1. Check out the To Be Reviewed category. It contains a list of all “articles” that have not been reviewed. Click through to one of them and give it a good look.
2. At the top of the page, you should see a link to the original page from the Skeptics Annotated Bible. This will help give you an idea of how the contents of the page should look. We suggest you open that page in another window or tab of your browser so you can refer back to it.
3. Note any problems you see, then click “Edit”. This will switch to a page where you can edit the contents of the page.
4. At the top of every article (in edit mode) are the categories it’s in. The format of these is important, so don’t change it unless you understand how. One of the categories on the articles that have not been reviewed is—you guessed it—“To Be Reviewed”.
5. The most likely issues to fix will be…
—New lines missing. To fix this, just find the right place in the text and hit return.
—Annotations not in the right place (probably down at the bottom, and they should be below the passage they refer to). To fix this, copy the full text of an annotation, including any tags around it, and move it up to where it belongs. If a comment annotates several passages please place it after the last it refers to.
—Text linked that shouldn’t be linked. To fix this, remove the url tags around the text that shouldn’t be linked.
—Text not linked that should be linked. To fix this, add url tags around the text that should be linked.
—Content missing. To fix this, copy and paste from the original. There are ample examples in the site of how to format the data. You can save your work, find a page that contains similar data in the new site, and click edit it to see how to format the text.
6. When you’ve finished cleaning up an article (but not until then), go ahead and remove the “To Be Reviewed” category (including the brackets around it). You can move on to another article.
7. If you are new, start working on the Bible or Book of Mormon, please. Move to the Qur’an when you have a better grip on page styling. The Qur’an does not include annotations and contributors will have to recreate them from Steve’s source material.
Thanks for helping!
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