Help page for team members
This page explain the most common features to be used on the website for team members.
To access most of the features described on this page, you first have to log in, by clicking on the login link on the top-left of the screen (below the team name/logo). Your login should be your last name followed by the first letter of your forename. You should also have received your password prior to coming to this website for editing. If you haven't got a password, please contact a permanent member to get access.
Once logged in, you have direct access to this page from any page of the website by using the help link next to the logout link.
Change your password
For security reasons, you should change your password on this website. You can do it on the Profiles/PasswordForm page. If you are an administrator, you will be able to change passwords for anyone, else you will only have access to yours.
Edit a page (example with your profile)
Go to the page named Profiles/. If it does not yet exist, the link should be underlined with a dashed line, and the page will contain a template you can edit. The edit link is also present in the top left of the screen (action bar) once you have logged in. You can also directly go to Profiles/?action=edit to edit the page.
You should also be able to edit most pages of the website if needed. Every change on every page is stored in history, so you (or anyone else in the team) should be able to revert any modification on the website (Wiki philosophy).
Once you are in the edit mode, use the buttons to control the format and type in text, take example on existing pages, or refer to PmWiki/DocumentationIndex for basic and advanced editing techniques. The editing rules closely match those of any Wiki based website (including Wikipedia), at least in principle.
You can preview the result by using the preview button (so this is sadly not a "what you see is what you get" website). Don't forget to click on the save button before closing your browser or leaving for another web page.
Content of the profile page
Here is below a past snapshot of the content of the Profiles/QuintonJC page. The usage of each field is described below, as this page is structured and behaves a bit differently than standard wiki pages. You can use the example and details given below to edit your own page.
(:LastName:Quinton:) (:FirstName:Jean-Charles:)
These are the first lines of the page when editing it. Just put the adequate values after the : and before the :) strings. Any character and accentuation should be accepted, but newline and specific wiki escape/control characters. The principle is the same for all the fields described below.
(:Position:Associate professor:) (:Type:Permanent:)
Your position can take any value, but to be correctly and automatically listed in the profiles and in the correct section, it should be one of the following:
Internship student, Master student, PhD student, Post-doctoral fellow Associate professor, Full professor, Research scientist, Associate fellow, Collaborator
The type field should be either Permanent or Temporary. Choose temporary if you do not have a permanent position within the laboratory (this is simply used to generate supervised and supervising lists).
(:Start:2011:) (:comment End:????:)
Within the start field, please indicate your year of arrival at the lab. The end field should remain commented, except if you definitely left the lab, or at least if you don't know if you will return. If so, indicate the year you left the lab.
If you spent periods outside the lab, simply refer to your first contract for the arrival and last for departure.
(:Phone:+33 (0)4 73 40 76 53:) (:Office:3111:) (:Website:quintonj.free.fr:)
Although these fields are not mandatory, they might simplify access to your details, or ease contact between members or with external collaborators.
(:comment Address:????:)
You do not need to indicate the address, except if you are not working within the Pascal Institute. If left commented, the Pascal Institute address (LASMEA, Campus des Cézeaux) will automatically be generated.
(:Photo:QuintonJC.jpg:)
If you want to put a photo on your page (advised to ease integration of newcomers), you just have to choose a filename that suits the associated photo. It does not need to share the name of the file on your hard drive, but the extension should be the same. Please consider using small pictures to reduce page load.
Once you save the page, and if the file was not found on the server (which is expected), a link to upload the image file should appear in place of the photo. Click on it and browse your folders to select the file, then confirm and return to your profile to check if the photo correctly appears.
(:Topics:[[!Control]] (predictive, distributed), [[!Architecture]] (dynamical complex systems), [[!Vision]] (perception, bio-inspired, active, attention, saliency), [[!Coordination]] (human/robot, multi-agent), [[!Navigation]] (planification), [[!Autonomy]] (adaptivity, learning, long-term memory), [[!Artificial intelligence]], [[!Implementation]] (simulation, parallel processing):)
Although not mandatory either, you should here indicated the research topics on which you work, so you get listed in the associated categories and visitors can easily find you through your interests.
Actual topic categories should be put under the [[!????]] form, so the website can understand them as categories. Try to use the existing categories listed on the left of the main Research page. If not possible, do not put it between brackets. You can also add any short additional information you want on your research topics between parentheses.
From time to time, or when the team composition will evolve, a new polling should be made to update or extend the category list. You can always ask to a website administrator to add a category, except if you are knowledgeable enough in PmWiki to do it yourself.
(:Skills:programmation ([[!Java]], [[!Cpp]]...), distributed models ([[!Neural network]], [[!Neural field]], [[!GMM]], [[!LWPR]]...), applied maths ([[!PDE]], [[!SVD]], [[!PCA]], [[!Fourier]]...), learning methods:)
Same as above, but these skills will only get listed internally, so no visitor will have access to it. It should be used to easily know whom to ask when you have a technical question. Here of course, categories should be more flexible, as the current list is far from exhaustive. Administrator should again try to update the category list from time to time by scanning through the profile pages.
This line needs to be put on this page, and should not be modified.
Publications
As you might have noticed, publications are not directly listed within the wiki code of your profile page. They are all gathered in a single BibTex file, that you can access from the Publications page, or directly through this link : Publications/TeamBib
The file can be directly edited from within the website. Simply edit the BibTex file stored in the TeamBib page. If you want the publications to be only accessible to team members (internal report, work in progress...), simply put the BibTex entry in the (:if authid:)...(:ifend:) section.
To more generally list an entry as a work in progress for other members to comment upon it, and to ease collaboration and reviewing among colleagues, set year = {in progress} in your entry.
To attach a PDF file (or any other material) to the entry, select an adequate name in the pdf field of the BibTex entry (for instance, pdf = {Author et al - 2012 - Our paper.pdf}. This should create a link to upload the missing file on the server (see the photo section in the profile walkthrough above).
If you are not sure on how to modify the file and don't want to mess up with the publications on the website, please send an email with the complete reference to your communication (preferably in BibTex format of course) to your advisor or to the website administrators.
Once logged in, you will be able to see all entries in the publication list, and also be able to comment on them on theirs dedicated page (by following the links). Any communication page can also be enriched with content (explanations, pictures, videos, Applets...) by simply editing the page.
Mailing lists
Finally, and if you need to send an email to several or all members of the team, the Profiles/MailingLists page lists all first names, last names and email addresses from the profile pages.
This should hopefully be replaced by a mail alias to the list in the near future.