Adding Entries

All you need is a GitHub account (sign up), but you might consider joining the development community for direct editing without pull requests.

Good reference materials are the Writing Guide and the example entry of the Avocado Lab webpage which is rendered from this file.

1. Open Collection Folder: inside the sphere repository (first determine in which collection your initiative belongs to)
2. Select Create New File: If you are not a member, Github will let you know you don’t have ‘write’ access to the project. A new file will be saved under your copy of the project (‘fork’) and can later be merged with a ‘pull request’.
3. Name your new file: Add a folder first, preferably with the same name of your initiative using CamelCase and specify the format at the end as .md, e.g. ‘AvocadoLab/AvocadoLab.md’ (the name of the file will be the URL of the entry, so don’t use a long name!)

4. Copy and Paste EntryTemplate: open the EntryTemplate, select all, copy, and paste into your new file. Alternatively, use the CompleteTemplate, or base off the AvocadoLabFile as a more concrete example
5. Edit content: Fill in the front matter (data keys in between ---) and write the rest of the entry in markdown text. The Preview markdown will only render the text and the front matter will be inside a two row table.
6. Select Propose new file at the bottom of the page, when you are finished editing

7. Select Create Pull Request if you are able to merge. You can add additional comments to your pull request
8. Wait for Merge A member will revise your Pull Request (PR), request additional edits from you, or approve the PR and merge your changes to the master branch. Members can approve their own PR or edit directly into the master branch

Rejoice! your new entry is now part of DIYbiosphere!

Thank you for your contribution!