There aren't many rules and we'll try to keep them short. If you new to wiki editing, see the wiki instructions.
- Write in the "we" voice (1st person plural); no proper names or genders in the naratives. Since some of the members at small are under 13 this is actually a law.
- Describe in detail, but don't brag or blame. A little good natured kidding is ok though.
- Titles of pages should be in mostly lowercase (except for names and acronyms) like they would be in the middle of a sentence. They'll now be automatically capitalized when they show up as titles.
- Don't randomly rename things The titles of pages are used to link pages and if you change the title of a page (even just the capitalization) make sure you find all the places it's used and change them too.
- When you name a page use all lower case except for proper names and acronyms (so as if it were in the middle of a sentence.). That makes it easy to add links to it later. When the title is displayed as a title it will automatically capitalize it.
- No walls of text. Break up your paragraphs, and if pages get too long break them up too (see rock candy fuel for a good example).
- Tag pages so the system can find them. Most pages should either be tagged:
- if they are about the club or the wiki use
meta
- If they're about something we did, are doing, or might do.
- with one or more subjects (
physics
,
biology
,
rockets
, etc.)
- a single scope scale (
test
,
project
, etc.)
- Either
completed
(if we're done) or
contemplated
(if we haven't even started).
- if they're about our stuff use
materials
(stuff that gets used up) or
equipment
(stuff that doesn't)
- Also tag
safety rules
- Put
<<footer>>
at the bottom of most pages. It adds links to stuff. - Use
<<text-needed>>
, <<picture-needed>>
, <<clarification-needed>>
where needed.