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Welcome Welcome to RISDpedia a collaborative instruction manual for artists and designers. RISDpedia is a place where artists and designers can share information about the products and materials we use, and how to use them. Here, you can find Articles on how to, but also information on exact products and materials. Click on examples below to see it in action.

Examples
 * Articles
 * Foamcore
 * Spray Painting
 * Hot Wire


 * Products/Materials:
 * Winsor & Newton Designer Gouache
 * Strathmore Charcoal
 * Styrene
 * Krylon H2O



Contributing

 * Adding a new page
 * Click on "Add a New Page" located at the top left of the window in the green bar.
 * You will then be guided through some simple steps to make it happen.


 * Editing existing pages
 * If you want to add or edit a page, first go to the page you would like to edit, then click on the orange "east edit" tab located at the top of the article.
 * If you are informed that "easy edit" is not available for that page, simply go back and click on edit.
 * When you are finished with the edits, click on the button to save changes.

That seriously is all there is to it.

About RISDpedia

RISDpedia In A Few Hundred Words
RISDpedia is a collaborative website who serves to document all the products and materials used by artists and designers. Imagine if you looked up epoxy on wikipedia and, instead of finding information about the chemicals that are used to make it, there was a list of all the different epoxies available, with full information on each of them: how to use them, what they work with, what they don't work with, etc.

That is RISDpedia.
On RISDpedia, you will also find articles on how to work with materials. Need to know how to properly sand wood? It's in there. What about information on gouache? Yeah, we cover that. We know that some products are very similar to each other, but we also know that "similar" does not mean "the same," so each product gets entered separately.

With RISDpedia you can know before you buy if a product or material will work, and that information will save you time and money.

How can I help?
Right now, RISDpedia is small, with information about approximately 300 products and 20 articles. One student has done 99% of this work. We are not asking you to spend a lot of time editing or adding to articles. We are asking for quick edits that will take just a few minutes of your time, just here and there. But together they will add up to an invaluable resource for all RISD students.

If you would like to contribute in any way and are not sure how, click here

It's really easy to use!
This summer, RISDpedia was revamped to make contribution as easy as possible. If you can send an email or post an image on Facebook, you have all the skills that are needed to contribute.

Help Me
Because so much of this project is just 1 person, I need all the help I can get. From documentation to web-design, to site flow. contact me if you would like to help. Learn more about contributing

Contributing

 * Adding a new page
 * Click on "Add a New Page" located at the top left of the window in the green bar.
 * You will then be guided through some simple steps to make it happen.

Editing an existing page

 * If you want to add or edit a page, first go to the page you would like to edit, then click on the orange "east edit" tab located at the top of the page.
 * If you are informed that "The page can not be edited with Easy Edit", simply go back to the page and click on regular edit tab.
 * When you are finished with the edits, click on the button to save changes.

What are we looking for?
Anything you can give us, even simple grammar & spelling fixes. Or if you think something reads strangely, change it.

Article Ideas

Requested articles

What if you mess up?
You can't. Well technically you could, but it is not a problem at all. RISDpedia is set up so that any change can be undone. Even a year down the road. So don't be afraid to make changes!

Explore RISDpedia

Browsing
Browsing RISDpedia couldn't be easier. Just like wikipedia, you can search for the articles you want, but even better you can find products without even knowing what you are looking for. You can quickly browse through products by Company or Materials categories by clicking on the + signs next to each category. Doing so will create a drop down, and expose everything in it. We worked hard to categorize the products as well as possible, but we can always use help, if you think there need to be other/better categories, please Let us know.

Searching
The search bar on the left will list pages that contain with the letters you type in as you start to type. This is nice to see what pages are available. But just because you didn't see it in the list does not mean it is not in there so if you don't see something in the list, hit search, and hopefully you will find it. All searches are logged so we can see what people want to know. This is just there so we can add info we may be missing.

Bread Crumbs
Product and material pages that are categorized, list their hierarchy right below their headline title. Looking at page Baltic Birch Plywood, you can see Hierarchy: Materials | Raw Material | Wood | Plywood. Clicking on anyone of them will show you other products in that same category.

See it all, or see something new
Just want to see what we have here? No problem.
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 * Articles
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