Stars!wiki:Policies

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There aren't many yet. But you may wish to "watch" the policies talk page and stay abreast of policy discussions as they happen. Or just watch this page and keep informed of policy changes.

Abbreviations

Articles for names with abbreviations should use the full name, with a REDIRECT page for the abbreviation.

Article Library

Do not edit these articles except structurally(how they are presented). If you wish to modify or rewrite any of these texts please create a separate article elsewhere in Stars!wiki, not in the Article Library.

Categories

  1. Where appropriate, list your article in a category(or two...) Its a only a link at the bottom of the page per category. See here for the how-to specifics.
  2. Suggested categories are listed at Stars!wiki:Categories.

Namespaces

A list of existing namespaces appears at the bottom of the search results. Except for interwiki prefixes, please do not create pages with non-existant namespaces. The pages will be created with a colon in the name and may not be accessable once the namespace has been created.

Namespaces are a wiki organisational concept, essentially its the prefix for wikilinks eg(Stars!wiki,Special,Help) Most articles are listed in the default namespace (Main) and don't require a prefix. They are used to differentiate the purpose of the contained articles. eg the Stars!wiki namespace is for articles about Stars!wiki itself. Namespaces for Library: and FreeStars: have been created, now we just need to learn how to use them lol.

Interwiki linking

Feel free to use interwiki linking, a list of defined interwiki prefixes is at Special:Interwiki

Preview & minor editing

Please make liberal use of the preview button when creating/editing pages, every time you save a page and edit again it is recorded in the history for that page.

If you are only fixing minor elements of a page (eg a malformed link or a spelling mistake) don't forget to mark your edit as minor. Actual edits should be worth someone looking at the new page.

Style

Please be familiar with the style of Stars!wiki articles before you go creating your own articles. Simple things like proper grammar, not putting a title at the top of the article text(articles already have titles) go a long was to make the wiki professional-like ;)

Templates/ParserFunctions

The MediaWiki extension metawikipedia:ParserFunctions is installed. Feel free to use it. You may also which to reference metawikipedia:Help:Template A list of existing templates is available at [1], although most are experimental at this stage.

Orphaned pages

If you create a new article without using a red edit link, or remove links from an article please make sure that the new article or article of the link you have removed is still linked from *somewhere* in the wiki. Preferrably somewhere logical and multiple times. Special:Allpages doesn't count.

File uploading

Feel free to upload any media files to supplement pages. Logos, banners,screen- or mug- shots are all good. :) If you wish to upload non-media file you will need to contact Gible as they must be uploaded independantly and cannot be uploaded using the wiki software.

Legal stuff

Copyright/Copyleft

Stars!wiki is entirely copyleft. All information contained within Stars!wiki is entirely free(also as in beer). Please make sure that any information you put into the wiki is either not copyrighted or you have permission to release it to the wild.

Democracy

By virtue of the fact that I created it, Stars!wiki is not a democracy, but instead a benevolent dictatorship. Edit nicely people ;)