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Article Guidelines

A lot of what I've written here so far is way too formal, hopefully that can change. I don't actually care what you write about or how properly you do it; do whatever you want. The only thing strictly off-limits is doxxing. That includes posting real names, IRL locations more precise than a country, and IRL pictures, as well as posting pictures of trains or something about a jester. The only exception is in regards to somebody like Devon who has a well-attested identity, so… yeah, basically just Devon.

With that out of the way…

How do I write?

Click the edit button on the right side, retard. You will see the code for the article. Ok, there's a bit more to it than that.

The backend software this Wiki uses is called Dokuwiki. Use that term in your google search when you need to figure out how to do something. Why this and not something else? I don't trust Wikia/Fandom since their UI changes a few years ago broke a lot of wikis, and this is a lot easier to set up and use than Mediawiki (the software behind Wikipedia). Yeah, it's slightly harder to write here than on Wikia… but come on, it's pretty easy. Even Redditors can figure out how to type [['s and ]]'s to make links. So can you.

So speaking of, here's the formatting syntax guide.

A couple things I want to point to specifically are the headings and image links. For headings, I always start my articles with six ='s, for example, ====== Page Title ======, to write the article name with the biggest font size, and then, if the article is long enough to have subsections, go down to five ='s, then four, etc. So, you should follow that convention if you care about consistency. For image links, notice how spaces before or after the filename affects its location. Kinda quirky. Tables work the same way. Also, you pretty much always need to use “?” to resize the image (as in, {{image.png?250}} for 250px wide), or it will take up the whole page. Also also, you can see the images currently on the site in the Media Manager (upper right), and you can upload new ones there, too.

I also have some extensions installed here to give us more features. This is some advanced shit. The most important of these is called Wrap, which basically allows us to split pages into multiple elements (such as two columns). It has some more autistic syntax (just linked it) but you shouldn't need to worry about it unless you're doing something crazy.

We also have ImageBox, which lets us have captioned Wikipedia-style images, by using extra ['s like this: [{{ImagePath|Caption}}]. Very simple. See /int/craft-chan for an example. If you do this, use ?250 to keep a consistent 250px wide.

We also have Table Width (you'll see why in a sec), Wrap Plus, and Page Redirect. Be careful when using redirects, as once you create one, you can't undo it (only I can). By the way, I already created redirects for all the iteration articles (wow!) so you can create a link to i33 or 35.0, and the links will resolve the correct place.

Most of this is not really necessary to know. You should find that writing and page formatting is pretty straight-forward. But you were autistic enough to come to this website and click the link to this page anyway, so now you know all the extra shit.

How do I make a new article?

First, go to the homepage and see if it hasn't been made already (obviously).

Next, there's two things you can do. One way is to create a link in an existing article to your new article (if it fits). The link will be red, then you can click the link. Another way is to type in your address bar intcraft.wiki/newpage. Both ways will take you to the new page and it will tell you to create the article.

You can also use this:

You are not allowed to add pages

Notes on naming convention: I generally prefer to use mineman usernames rather than Discord tranny names for player pages, except in cases where for whatever reason the player is usually not referred to by any one username (like Jonathan). I also try to use a proper name for iteration articles when possible (but the redirects mentioned earlier also work). Using slashes in the article names kinda fucks things up, so avoid using them. For example, the homepage is just intcraft.wiki/intcraft rather than intcraft.wiki//int/craft.

article_guidelines.1685384578.txt.gz · Last modified: 2023/05/29 14:22 by intcraftwikiadmin

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