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Revision as of 15:44, 7 November 2023
, 7 November 2023added sections about links and citing sources, and on adding a "date edited" to the end of pages
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Now, I hope I haven't bored you with these examples. But I think you probably get my point - just write well! It doesn't have to be perfect, but a little effort goes a long way! :D | Now, I hope I haven't bored you with these examples. But I think you probably get my point - just write well! It doesn't have to be perfect, but a little effort goes a long way! :D | ||
=Links and Citations= | |||
If you're writing a page, and you mention another topic in NSA lore, please remember to link to it. For example, if I was writing about Porkypines, I might mention that they are cousins of Baconypines. That's great! But even better would be linking to the page about [[Baconypines]]. It's not hard - just select the text you want the link to be on, and then click the "link" button in the toolbar and search for the page you want to link to. | |||
Similarly, if you were writing a page about a person, and you mention something they did in a historic NSA event, you should cite a page to give proof of that. Citations are similar to links, but not the same. Generally, if you mention a slightly-related topic in lore, you can link to the page about it. However, if you say that an event happened or someone did something, you should cite the page that tells that story more fully, or provides additional context. | |||
Citations can also be used to add a note about something that was said, to add clarity. These notes would be things that would break up the flow of the article, but you still want to include. | |||
The [[Porkypines]] page offers a good example of both of these uses. | |||
=Adding "Date Edited"= | |||
In reviewing contributions to the wiki, I have noticed that some editors will add the date, or at least year, that they edited/created the page to the end of the page itself. Now - I'm not against crediting contributions, not at all. However, adding this information to the page itself is unnecessary. MediaWiki (the software this wiki runs on) automatically logs all contributions to all pages. If you want to see who edited what on a page, just click on the "View History" tab on the top right corner of any given page. You can not only see when edits were made, but also who made them, (if the user was logged in) and what the changes were. Thus, it's really unnecessary to add any sort of date mark to the end of any of the pages. | |||
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