Rules and guidelines

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Revision as of 05:40, 13 February 2004 by Nonuthin (talk | contribs) (minor reorg & add title length suggestion)
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I've done a major cleanup of the front page and the links. A few new rules for editing:

Naming Conventions

  • All link words should start with a capital letter.
  • When possible, follow the existing categorical structure for new categories and pages.
  • Subcategories are shown off by using "space colon space" ( : )
  • When possible, use short page titles. This eases linkability and avoids the current layout bug of long titles overlapping the search box. There's no need for a link to include the entire grammatically complete form of a question, especially when two descriptive words would suffice. Following the example above:
  • Application Name links should only use the App Name, not "Mozilla App Name" except the Suite, which should be linked to and called "Mozilla Suite", not "Mozilla", "Suite", "Seamonkey", or any other name.
  • Layout issues or other things should use Gecko as the App Name. We need to work out what to use when something affects more than one app, or if we should just split them apart or use redirects.

Specificity

  • For the Suite, we have to decide how granular to get, and if we want to futher break things down by component (Browser/Mail and News/Editor/Chatzilla).

Editing Courtesy

  • If you find yourself wanting to change an entry back to an earlier revision, ask yourself if the current version had a useful purpose, and whether it really is necessary to change it back.
  • Document reasons for potentially controversial changes on the Talk pages.
  • Accept changes to your entries in a spirit of helpfulness.
  • We should have a protocol for when someone consistently makes certain types of mistakes or formatting quirks. Place a message in their User page? Email directly?

Test Editing Pages

  • A sandbox for showing off the wiki's features.
  • Another test page - Now with extra markup tests!
  • If you want to do some silly tests using a page use this page.