Alpha's Guide to Proper Wiki Editing
I just thought I'd make a guide to proper wiki editing. You can ignore this, add to it, or subtract from it as you please. Just make sure you make a comment about it.
- 1 The Basics
- 2 More Advanced
- 3 Misc.
- 3.1 Categories
- 3.2 References & Citations
- 3.2.1 References
1.) Always bold the title of the page. This is an incredibly common mistake when it comes to wiki editing, and I'm making sure that this drills into your heads. The FIRST time, and the FIRST time only, should you bold the tiltle of the page you're editing (i.e. Vivosaurs are super cool. Vivosaurs are awesome).
2.) Game titles go in Italics. Ah, yet another common mistake. When you're writing the title of a game, no matter how many times you write it, it goes in italics. Book titles go in italics,…
Testing
I am testing some of the Wiki Features out. One of them, as you may or may not have seen is the achievements. I will say now, and I will continue to say it until it's engraved into everyone's minds:
DO NOT SPAM THE WIKI IN AN ATTEMPT TO GAIN BADGES! THE FIRST OFFENSE WILL BE A WARNING, THE SECOND WILL RESULT IN YOU BEING BLOCKED!
This is supposed to be fun, and you'll ruin it if you consistantly spam the wiki with edits. If you can't be mature and handle it, just know it doesn't take much to disable it AND to have you blocked. I'll be sorting things out with Admins later as they get online. When I left last night, a lot of them seemed to agree that Achievements could be a fun way to get people to edit.
There's some unfortunate news about thi…
Redirecting VS. Deleting
First things first... Well... This is my first blog! 'Been meaning to make one for a while now, but oh well. I've been busy adding the Users category to Userpages, sorry if that got annoying. Anyways, I mysteriously made my way to becoming a Rollbacker and Chat Moderator (strangely enough, I've never found an instance to use the Rollback button, nor do I use the Chat often, but I can't complain too much). Ahem, now onto the purpose of this blog.
I made this blog for a specific reason: I've noticed many of the Wanted Pages are pages that have been previously deleted. Instead of having a long list of "Wanted" pages, why not just redirect them? This way, if someone happens to click one of those links, they'll always be redirected to the correc…