Wiki project manual

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Contents 1 Wiki project manual 1.1 Introduction 1.2 To do 2 Wiki style guide 2.1 Title and category naming conventions 2.2 Using categories 3 Steps to integrate a map page 4 Housekeeping 5 See also

Wiki project manual

Introduction

• Purpose: This manual documents best practices and resources for expanding and maintaining hurricanwiki.org.
  • Manual initiated: --John 16:21, 6 September 2008 (CDT)
• Audience: (Who Is Doing What) Wiki team members are invited to contribute topics, content and resources. Put issues on the discussion page. The wiki administrators will sign-off on each section for continuity.
• Orientation:
  • Community portal
  • Who Is Doing What
  • Wiki Task List
  • Category Team
  • Interactive Maps Team
  • Category:Wiki project
  • Wiki team communication options
    • http://gustav08.ning.com/forum
    • User_talk pages: Who Is Doing What
    • Twitters: Who Is Doing What
    • Emails: Who Is Doing What
    • Chat options
      • Community chat platform is pending
      • Each team member is encouraged to provide a chat channel on their respective talk pages, e.g. User_talk:Jwalling

To do

1. Create topics for this manual
2. Pull existing resources into the manual by topic.
3. Contribute Wiki project categories here Category_Team#Wiki_project
4. List resources available for this manual here:
   1. Community portal
   2. Category:Wiki project
   3. Editing Guidelines
5. List resources needed for this manual here:
   1. Super hero powers

Wiki style guide

Title and category naming conventions

• No unnecessary capitalization
  • Free food for Georgia (ok)
  • Free Food for Georgia (not ok)
• No CamelCase (CamelCase has no significance for Mediawiki, as it does for other wiki engines)
  • Real time tracking (ok)
  • RealTimeTracking (not ok)
• No unnecessary abbreviation
  • Free food for example (ok)
  • Free food e.g. (not ok)
  • Free food and water (ok)
  • Free food & water (& not ok, unless needed as an alias in a side menu to conserve space, or as part of a formal name.)
• Punctuation:
  • Limit punctuation to: spaces, underscores, hyphens, parentheses, and colons (for cases where you have a repeating topic)
  • Special characters such as the slash (/), plus sign (+), braces ({ }) and square brackets ([ ]) are avoided; the ampersand (&) is replaced by and, unless it is part of a formal name.[1]

Using categories

• Place categories under the last page topic, preferably == See also ==
  • On wiki project pages add: [[Category:Wiki project]], see Category:Wiki project

Steps to integrate a map page

1. Insert a navigation template at the page bottom: {{MapTOC}}
2. Add categories to the page bottom: [[Category:Maps]] , and location, e.g. [[Category:Florida]], and storm, e.g. [[Category:Ike]]
3. Add the new map page link to the Maps TOC page at Maps Contents Page
4. Update {{MapTOC}}, see Template:MapTOC

Housekeeping

• Spam Patrol needs to be done at least once per day and more often if posting is heavy. Scan Recent changes from the Last Spam Patrol update and then update Spam Patrol#Last Spam Patrol. If needed, a domain name can be blocked with the local SpamBlacklist. --John 17:28, 6 September 2008 (CDT)
• Team members should login before posting. This procedure helps with the Spam Patrol scan of Recent changes.

See also