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These are the key points for wiki articles: | These are the key points for wiki articles: | ||
- | - **Articles should contain actual prose.** | + | - This wiki's language is English (United States). American spellings are preferred. |
- | - This means **regular | + | - Follow all section headers with text (not images, lists, or tables). |
- | - **Bulleted lists** and content **in tables** | + | - Use [[guide: |
- | - **Each section** of an article should generally contain prose **immediately after any section header**. | + | - Anything |
- | - Articles should be internally consistent. | + | - Don't put paragraphs in tables or bullet lists. |
- | - Articles of a common type (such as starships or guns) should adhere to the common format (see [[guide: | + | - Do not use forced line breaks unless necessary (such as in a table). |
- | - **Do not use forced line breaks** unless necessary (such as in a table). | + | - Articles of a common type (e.g. guns) should adhere to the common format (see [[: |
===== Article Titles And Section Headings ==== | ===== Article Titles And Section Headings ==== | ||
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- In general, abbreviations should not be used as titles (use Imperial Registry Number, not IRN). | - In general, abbreviations should not be used as titles (use Imperial Registry Number, not IRN). | ||
- Article titles should be capitalized but not in all caps. (" | - Article titles should be capitalized but not in all caps. (" | ||
- | - Do not use an ampersand (&) or other special characters in a title unless they are part of an organization' | + | - Do not use an ampersand (&) or other special characters in a page name unless they are part of an organization' |
- | - Leave a space on either side of the title or section heading and a blank line before them. | + | - Headers should be properly nested - e.g. H1 (title) should contain H2 sections, and they should contain H3 sections, etc. |
- | - Headers should be in order: | + | |
- | - Ordered lists are preferred to unordered lists. | + | |
===== Article Content ===== | ===== Article Content ===== | ||
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- [[guide: | - [[guide: | ||
- Avoid the use of second-person language (you, your) in articles other than instructions for the player. | - Avoid the use of second-person language (you, your) in articles other than instructions for the player. | ||
- | - [[guide: | + | - Use proper plurals |
- In general, keep an encyclopedic tone. | - In general, keep an encyclopedic tone. | ||
- Occasional jokes and humor are okay. | - Occasional jokes and humor are okay. | ||
- You are encouraged to add examples from RP or quotes to add flavor. | - You are encouraged to add examples from RP or quotes to add flavor. | ||
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+ | ==== Active Content ===== | ||
+ | You can embed active content into your wiki pages. For example, you can place an RSS feed of your plot's posts into your plot wiki page. For more information, | ||
===== Links ===== | ===== Links ===== | ||
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- Don't create pages that are not linked to from other wiki pages (orphans). Create the link first, then follow it and create the page. Stray pages will be deleted! | - Don't create pages that are not linked to from other wiki pages (orphans). Create the link first, then follow it and create the page. Stray pages will be deleted! | ||
- | - If you move a page, first use the backlink link (at the bottom of every wiki page) to see what pages are linking to it. ALL OF THOSE PAGES SHOULD BE UPDATED! If not, you are creating broken links. Do not move a page unless you're willing to do the work of updating all those pages. | + | - Move pages using the page move tool so that backlinks |
- | - Admins | + | - Wiki admins |
===== Images ===== | ===== Images ===== | ||
+ | As of 7/7/2018 the first image on a wiki article must be an image about the actual subject of the article. Don't use corporate logos, etc, as the first image on the page. This helps with indexing and page previews. | ||
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Please only use file names that make sense and are easily read. Badly named images make images difficult to find, and they make understanding the image difficult or impossible for blind and low-vision roleplayers who have to rely on the text being read to them. | Please only use file names that make sense and are easily read. Badly named images make images difficult to find, and they make understanding the image difficult or impossible for blind and low-vision roleplayers who have to rely on the text being read to them. | ||