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− | Welcome new editor! This page is to help you {{Wiktionary|grok}} how to be professional when editing a wiki. Since we use Mediawiki's wiki software, a link to Mediawiki's [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting formatting guide], Wikipedia's {{w|Wikipedia:Cheatsheet|Formatting Cheatsheet}}, and their {{w|Help:Editing|Editing Guidelines}} page should help, they are a bit wordy though. | + | Welcome new editor! This page is to help you {{Wiktionary|grok}} how to be professional when editing a wiki. Since we use Mediawiki's wiki software, a link to Mediawiki's [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting formatting guide], Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet Formatting Cheatsheet], and their [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing Editing Guidelines] page should help, they are a bit wordy though. |
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− | Another good resource is to look at TVTropes.org's community rules. A lot of these come from there because they're just good sense.
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− | If you just want a quick guide for how to create a page, consider reading [[User:Lcarsos/My First Explanation|My First Explanation]]. This page is an outgrowth of [[User:Lcarsos#Formatting|the first formatting guide]] I made, eventually it'll all be moved here, and this will be a full and complete compendium. For now, it's a work in progress.
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− | ==Etiquette==
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− | ===Creating Pages===
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− | '''DO NOT''' create a new page unless you are going to put a good faith effort into creating a complete, or near-complete page. The mainstay editors get a spark of hope in their hearts to see a new editor create a new page only to have cold salt-water thrown on it when they go to the page and see it completely devoid of anything useful. Why? Because then they have to scramble to populate it with information before a Google bot comes by to see what new pages we have, and makes us look like lazy jerks that are just out to boost our Google juice without adding anything useful to the Internet.
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− | ===Editing pages===
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− | '''ALWAYS''' comment what your change is. Even if you are just putting quotation marks around something. In fact, especially when it's a small edit, it's hard to tell in a diff what is changed.
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− | ===Talk pages===
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− | For the love of all that is good and decent in this world, ''do not'' edit comments on a talk page. Do not add bullets to show the threading. Do not add horizontal separators to separate threads. Do not make sections on Explanation pages, that's an unnecessary amount of categorization.
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− | Always comment in chronological order. Don't be rude and put your comment at the top of the page just because you think it's more important. Depending on how grumpy the passing editor is, your comment may get moved to the bottom of the page or deleted. If a grumpy admin passes by you may not exist a few minutes later. Be a good person.
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− | Always, always, ''always'', '''always''', '''''always''''', '''''ALWAYS''''' sign your comment on a talk page. Otherwise, a grumpy editor goes through and edits your comment to have a {{tl|unsigned}} at the end of it, which is like putting a dunce cap on some poor sap. Editors hate to do it because it means mucking about in version histories to see who wrote what. Be decent and ''always'' sign your comment, if you accidentally forgot, it's ok to go back and make another edit to sign it.
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− | ===New User Protocol===
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− | If you are new here, don't create your user page as your first edit. It's tempting. But, we get hundreds of spam bots every day that create an account, then create a user page that spams links. So, an editor that's watching the recent changes page notices an account creation, and then that user creates their user page. This looks like spam. Also, making your user page as a first edit is kind of rude, in the wiki world. Try editing a few pages, or creating an explanation, you won't be thought of as spam for creating your user page then.
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| To use them you will need to use the escape codes that are talked about in the section above [[#What are all these weird things in the transcript?|What are all these weird things in the transcript?]]. | | To use them you will need to use the escape codes that are talked about in the section above [[#What are all these weird things in the transcript?|What are all these weird things in the transcript?]]. |
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− | *The em-dash (<code>&mdash;</code>) makes —
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− | *The en-dash (<code>&ndash;</code>) makes –
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| ===...Make a Wikitable=== | | ===...Make a Wikitable=== |
− | Wikitable format | + | Wikitable format |
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− | There's a larger discussion about this in the [[#...Use a wikitable?|When Should I...]] section, but suffice it to say, wikitables are a much hairier thing for the MediaWiki engine to parse, so consider using a bullet list first.
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| ===...Create a Page=== | | ===...Create a Page=== |