Therian
09-08-2005, 09:51 AM
Couple of tips for people when we start adding to the Wiki:
- Always use the search function to check to see if the article you want to add already exists.
- Try to find the full name of people before you create an article. Eg. create an article about "Jeric Targonor", rather than "Jeric". As a rule, I try to leave titles off (eg. not "Prince Jeric Targonor"), again just to avoid having two articles about the same person.
- Try to add a category to all of your pages (and, again, check to see if any appropriate category or sub-category exists before creating one). A lot of articles end up 'floating' but not visible on the categories.
- Categories are really useful for making alphabetical lists of articles which people can easily refer to. Because of this, try not to put long sections of text on the category pages themselves. Instead, make articles with category references.
- When naming an article or category, try to use singular nouns. Eg. [[Human]], not [[Humans]]. If you want to link to [[Human]] in an article, but as a plural, you can add an s by writing it as [[Human]]s. You can also use pipes | to cleverly name your links. [[Human|Those Darn Humans]] will display as "Those Darn Humans" but link to the article [[Human]].
- Article names also take note of capitalisation and even "smart (curly) quotes" as compared to "straight quotes" (that one took a long time to figure out). If there's any variation in the link, it will create a new article.
- Always use the search function to check to see if the article you want to add already exists.
- Try to find the full name of people before you create an article. Eg. create an article about "Jeric Targonor", rather than "Jeric". As a rule, I try to leave titles off (eg. not "Prince Jeric Targonor"), again just to avoid having two articles about the same person.
- Try to add a category to all of your pages (and, again, check to see if any appropriate category or sub-category exists before creating one). A lot of articles end up 'floating' but not visible on the categories.
- Categories are really useful for making alphabetical lists of articles which people can easily refer to. Because of this, try not to put long sections of text on the category pages themselves. Instead, make articles with category references.
- When naming an article or category, try to use singular nouns. Eg. [[Human]], not [[Humans]]. If you want to link to [[Human]] in an article, but as a plural, you can add an s by writing it as [[Human]]s. You can also use pipes | to cleverly name your links. [[Human|Those Darn Humans]] will display as "Those Darn Humans" but link to the article [[Human]].
- Article names also take note of capitalisation and even "smart (curly) quotes" as compared to "straight quotes" (that one took a long time to figure out). If there's any variation in the link, it will create a new article.