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As suggested by Markus Piotrowski
Checklist:
- Title
- The title in the markdown file may be changed into something more user-friendly (More user-friendly page titles #22)
- Take care that the title is not repeated in the main text (like here: http://biopython.org/wiki/Documentation)
- Is the text up-to-date? (Python versions etc)
- Formatting
- Suggestion: Python/Biopython commands, keywords, module/function names should be formatted as inline-code with single backticks, e.g.
Bio.SeqIO
??? Or bold??? - If applicable, they can also serve as links to the respective Wiki page
- Code output and command-line examples should be formatted as block code with three backticks instead of several single line inline-code statements.
- Check block code for trailing white spaces, which may result in the addition of an (unnecessary) horizontal scrollbars as here: http://biopython.org/wiki/ACE_contig_to_alignment.
- Code
- Code should be checked for a minimum of PEP8 compliance.
- The code should work (as it is) under Biopython 1.66
- Since we are recommending Python 3.5 as environment, the code should work under Python 3.5 ???
- Links
- Check all links
- 'Repair' broken links
Try to find a link that's more likely to be stable. E.g. for papers I think that dx.doi.org references (or Pubmed references) are more stable than linking to a special page of the respective journal or private or institutional homepages. With http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/ you can do a reverse doi lookup for a given paper. - Links with anchors (.../some_page#jump_here) may have issues with upper/lowercase formatting (HTML anchors within pages not working? #13)
- Are the links up-to-date? E.g. in http://biopython.org/wiki/Getting_Started the Python Quick Reference links to Python 2.5
- References
- Some pages used a PubMed plugin under MediaWiki to display references (Publication entries #12). Since it's unlikely (?) to have a functional replacement, I would suggest to convert them to simple links.
- RSS feeds
- As above, embedding an existing RSS feed seems hard (Embedded RSS/Atom news feed #4), again I would suggest replace with a link pointing to the RSS feed