8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising, prior to said storing act, the act of activating one of said panes and modifying said active pane content.
1. A method for authoring an article entry comprising a plurality of data fields from at least one electronic document and storing the article in a knowledgebase, the at least one electronic document each comprising at least one readable text snippet, the method comprising the acts of: (a) displaying the at least one electronic document on an electronic display; (b) displaying an applet comprising a plurality of panes on said electronic display, one of each of said panes associated with a respective one of the article entry data fields and configured for receiving and displaying a pane content; (c) activating one of said panes; (d) using a selection device to highlight a text snippet from the at least one electronic document by moving a cursor to a start of said text snippet, engaging and holding a user operable selection means while moving said cursor to an end of said text snippet wherein on release of said user operable selection means said highlighted text snippet is copied to said active pane as said pane content; (e) repeating acts (c) and (d) for each of said plurality of panes; and (f) storing said pane content as the article entry in the knowledgebase, wherein for each of said panes, said pane content is stored in the article entry data field associated with said pane.