Speech:Add Experiment Entry Guide

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Guide to Add a new Experiment Entry to the Log
This guide will walk you through the simple process to add a new Experiment Entry to the master logs page where we house all of our Experiments.

This is VERY important as Professor Jonas has probably already stressed because these logs are the only artifacts we have about all our Experiments that we can actually make sense out of. Every Experiment should be created for a purpose.

NOTE: If you are creating a new CHILD Experiment, you don't have to create a new Entry on the Exps listing page, but please modify your MASTER Experiment's log entry to include the new CHILD Experiment you did inside it.

Let's get started.

Step 1 - Add your entry to the listing page
For the first step, you must be logged into MediaWiki. Once logged in, navigate to here.

Once there, you want to click the "edit" link directly on the right side of the page across from the "List of Speech Experiments" header - that should take you here.

Scroll to the bottom of the page and on a new line, paste this: * 

Change the  place holder with the new MASTER Experiment Number you received when you started the Run a Train Master Script. Also change the  placeholder with a short description of this new Experiment.

When completed all of that, save the page.

Step 2 - Add content to the new Experiment Entry
Once you save and are returned the listing page, you should see your new line as a red font at the bottom of the page. This is normal and it's red because the page that its linking to is empty. DO NOT LEAVE IT EMPTY.

Click the red link.

You will be brought to a page with a large blank textbox ready to be filled in. We use a template so that everyone's entry looks the same and has the same information. Paste this template inside the textbox:

Description
Author:

Date:

Purpose:

Details:

Results:

You MUST fill out all those fields EXCEPT the Results one. Anyone that goes into this entry should know your INTENTION of the Experiment - so you should be writing this is future tense. If it's written in past tense and Professor sees it, he will know you did the actual Experiment before writing this entry. DON'T DO THAT.

After you fill it out, save it.

And that's it! You can now finish going through the Run a Train Master Script and continue along your Experiment.

Good luck!