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[edit] Style Guidelines
Now, this wiki doesn't have to be as pristine as Wikipedia, but their Manual of Style provides some great guidelines and is a decent place to start when making sure that your contributions are going to look good.
If you can't, or don't want to, keep up to those standards, and I don't blame you, then at least follow these 3 rules, copied from the partyvan wiki, which are a baseline for editing;
- Just FYI, This wiki is not your personal note pad. Thx.
- All editors should create an account, it actually makes you more anonymous by hiding your IP in edit history.
- THIS IS A WIKI NOT AN IMAGEBOARD. EDIT articles. DO NOT just fucking DUMP NEW CONTENT into them. If you need to discuss things, put it on the talk page. Article pages must be EASY TO PICK UP INFORMATION FROM.
[edit] Required Reading
- How to Edit a Page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page
- Formatting Text - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting
[edit] Wikilinks are Case Sensitive
A wikilink to [[Church of Scientology]] is not the same as [[Church OF Scientology]]
[edit] <br> is Your Friend
Since mediawiki (this wiki software) ignores linebreaks, youi will either need to use asterisks to make a bulleted list or lists of things will need br tags in between them. Example
Name: Johnny Xenu<br>Address: 123 Marcab Ln<br>Phone: 411
will produce
Name: Johnny Xenu
Address: 123 Marcab Ln
Phone: 411
[edit] Use the Talk/Discussion Pages
Up there on the top, do you see the "discussion" tab? That's where we should talk about the wiki pages, instead of crapping up the main page with stuff other people don't need to see. Please sign your edits on the talk pages with four tidles ~~~~
[edit] MediaWiki Extensions
You can see what mediawiki extensions are installed on this server here: Special:Version. Currently, we have:
- Flickr - Embed photos from Flickr directly - Usage
- EmbedVideo - Embed videos from various video sites - Usage
[edit] Flickr Demo
The Flickr syntax is like so. Only the photo ID is optional
<flickr>{photoid}|type|location(justify)|size|caption</flickr>
So this:
<flickr>2335535007|thumb|none|m|hey u</flickr>
Makes this
[edit] Embedvideo Demo
You could either link to the video by just pasting the URL, no brackets needed, like this http://youtube.com/watch?v=5uZr3JWYdy8 . Or you can embed the video like so
So this:
{{#ev:youtube|dMH0bHeiRNg}}
Makes this:
