Wiki Standards and Rules

**ImaCarrot** · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 2687

We've started drafting an article standards page along with some rules that we feel need to be in place to maintain the quality and integrity of a ScoreHero wiki. Seeing how this is a wiki, we've decided to let you, the community, decide article standards and propose rules that should be followed to ensure high quality of our wiki. Here's what I've already got started, I'm going to limit editing the page to Upgraded users for now but allow comments for all. Once a standard is agreed upon, we can start proliferating it to the other articles. Let's make ScoreHero Wiki awesome!

Either leave comments and suggestions here or on the wiki page linked above and below.

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**CleverTangent** · Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 6:25 pm Post subject:

Simply a cosmetic suggestion:

When you create a new page, put in **bold** the first time you mention the subject in the article. Here is an example of this.
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**Eastwinn** · Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 6:33 pm Post subject:

^ I agree. I'll start doing that from now on.
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**footballtom3685** · Joined: 16 Sep 2007 Posts: 2478 Location: Bay Area, CA

Although it can't necessarily be a rule, I would really like to encourage people to include Wikilinks in their edits. If you're listing a bunch of songs, I know it's tedious but it looks much nicer and flows much better if every song is a link to its respective page. For those that don't know how to do this, here is an example:

Instead of just typing Bark at the Moon, you would type [[Song_GH1_BarkAtTheMoon Bark at the Moon]] Whatever comes before the space in the double brackets is the wikilink. Regular urls work also, but a little symbol shows up next to the link, so if you're linking to something on the wiki it's better to just use the wikilink. And if you didn't already know or figure it out, the wikilink is just the title of the page you're linking to.
Another important note is that for page titles with just one word, like idunnolol for instance, you can easily make them wikilinks by wrapping them with [[]], as in [[idunnolol]].

Anyway, it would be nice if people started using these as much as possible so that the wiki could flow well and people won't have to go through and eventually add links to everything.

**ImaCarrot** · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 2687

Good ideas, I've added those into the rules and standards article. If anyone wants to try their hand at better organizing it or you think you've got a good idea for another section of a wiki article, feel free to edit it in. Edit in whatever you think will be helpful, we can always roll back on the history to undo edits if needed, so don't be afraid that you'll mess something up, it can be fixed.

Once you make an edit, mention it in here for discussion.
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**Eastwinn** · Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 9:21 pm Post subject:

I thought that a "Do's and Don't's" list would be more appropriate than a "Rules" list. Anyone else agree?
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**Cyberwaste** · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 12:18 pm Post subject:

I'm attempting to make a table of contents (like most wikis I've seen do) for the 360 Achievements page, and I'm personally wondering how I'd go about that. And I'm wondering whether or not to make that a standard for pages with multiple sections.
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**ricecake** · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 5:01 pm Post subject:

To make a table of contents, you need to use HTML and create anchor tags.

First, you add an anchor tags with the name attribute. You put these at the spots that you want to jump to. Since this is HTML on the wiki, you must surround it with two sets of double-quotes:

**arweryn** · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:36 pm Post subject:

I really do hope that these wiki pages do not turn into a piece of crap. I likke the idea a lot, great job everyone at scorehero!
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