Tutorial:How to create an article - start drafting

Overview of all steps

This tutorial is part of How to create an article step by step and guides you through the drafting of the article.

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Once you have an idea of the structure of your article, it is time to enter the text in Statistics Explained. First of all, use the link which was provided to you by the Statistics Explained team when the article was created (see step 1). Then, in order to edit articles, you need to log in. This is done like this:

Click 'Log in' on the top right.
You will be redirected to the European Commission's Secure Authentication Service (EU-Login): insert your EU-Login 'Username' and 'Password' and click 'Login'.
When logged in, additional buttons at the bottom of the page become visible, when logged out only Page is accessible.
In order to start editing, click Edit draft at the bottom of the page - this opens an editing window.
The model page will appear:
Insert the content: either copy and paste an already existing text in the appropriate place in the model or write the text directly. By clicking on the icons above the editing frame, selected text can be immediately converted into bold or italic, see Wikitext editing buttons. Please do not remove the tags and the titles of mandatory chapters!
Data extracted in Month Year: replace 'Month Year' with the date on which the data in the article were extracted from the database.

Stable page versus draft

Once you have entered the text, do not forget to save! What you have saved will be saved as a draft version, only visible to those who are logged in. For those not logged in, a stable page saying "Under construction" will appear. Since the draft is visible for anyone logged in, it implies that unreleased, embargoed or confidential data should never be displayed in Statistics Explained, not even in the draft version! See: Tutorial:Stable page versus draft.

Difference between Statistical article – Background article

If you decide to write a new article, a decision has to be taken whether it should be a Statistical article or a Background article. The difference is the following:

A statistical article contains data which should be updated on a regular basis and which contains main statistical findings.
A background article provides comprehensive methodological information on subjects such as statistical methods or classifications.

Update an article

You follow the same procedure as above,but the model page will not appear, just the existing article. Instead of inserting a new text, you change the existing text and save it in draft.

If you want to keep track of changes made in your article, you should log in and click on History at the bottom of the page. Whenever the page has been changed and the changes have been saved, a record is created allowing you to identify the person and the exact time of the change. The history page also allows you to compare different versions of the page, so that you can see what changes have been done at what moment.

Tutorial:How to create an article - start drafting

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