Help:First Steps
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Sign Up & Claim Your User Page
Registering and logging in, although not required, is highly recommended:
- Registering does not require an email address or any personal information
- All edits you perform are credited to your username
- Collaboration with other users via the talk pages is easier
- Logging in allows you to upload files such as images and video
- You can create your own unique "personal page" in Grantpedia containing information about yourself
Add your Ideas
Ideas are what change the world. We think the best starting point for your involvement with Grantpedia is get your ideas down, and link them to the issues they address.
It doesn't even matter if the issues aren't added yet! It's better if they are, but even if they aren't, link your idea to them anyway. That way a link will be there to an empty page. You can always fill in the issue(s) later, or perhaps someone else will.
To start adding or editing your ideas, or anybodies, go to the Idea form.
Add your Issues
After you've got your ideas down, you might want to check out the issues that relate to your ideas. See what may already be present for information on the issues your ideas address. Maybe it needs some additions, or maybe it hasn't been added at all, so go ahead and add it.
To start adding or editing issues that concern you, go to the Issues form.
Look for Funding for your your Ideas
You can browse Grantpedia and of course the whole Internet is out there. Grant information is there to be found, but its fragmented -- hence the efforts to consolidate with Grantpedia!
You might have noticed when adding your ideas the field called Potential Sources of Funding
If you type in the name of a funding source you've found on Grantpedia, a link to it will automatically be created.
If that funding source hasn't been added yet you should still type in the name of what you've found, from wherever you found it. A link to an empty page will then be created, which makes it convenient for you or anyone to click on and then add the funding source at a later date.
Look for Organizations relevant to your Ideas
Grantpedia is a great place to start, but you also have the whole Internet. Somewhere out there is a Society, or Program, or a Facebook group full of activists which are a good match for what you want to get done.
If you find them in Grantpedia browsing the Organizations that's great! If you find them Googling around, take a moment to add them to Grantpedia.
Now you can go back to your Idea, and add the names of these organizations to the Relevant Organizations field. This will make a link to their page in your Idea.
