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Collaborative Research with Github Wikis / Gollum

• entirely client-based, backed by a git repo
• git repo is all you need
• can be browed online on github
• can be served locally via gollum

Inserting Maths

Supported through MathJax.

Inline \(x^2\) equation, or display mode:

$$x^2$$

Inserting References

References: use local script to collate, display with include:pagename-refs tag.

Citekeys must remain plain text: {Butko:2007ft}, not Butko:2007ft so that the files remain easy to edit in plain-text mode.

We use javascript to display them in the web browser:

• hovering on citekey shows formatted citation
• clicking on citekey opens PDF file from repo

Users are responsible for displaying them the way they want.

Reference collation

Runs from a python/ruby script stored in the repo.

• go through all the modified pages
• collect citekeys
• generate references page
• collect PDFs and copy to repo

Each user needs to provide a script that takes a citekey as an input and returns a bibtex entry as a result.