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A helpful guide on posting to the wiki.


General Wiki Philosophy

A wiki is a piece of software that allows a bunch of people to collaboratively build a website about something.

As such, you are free to edit whatever you like. You don't need to ask permission or register an account anywhere.

However, common Wiki etiquette generally dictates that you try to keep the previously existing content intact: Try to add material, instead of removing, or replacing things. Always try to work with the existing stuff and never do anything drastic.


Organization

Before making any new posts, first try and find the best category where your addition would fit in.

If you do not find any category that you think suites your post, or you are unsure of which one to put it in, plop it in Misc History Articles.

Try to avoid creating new categories when they are un-needed.

New Entries

  • To create a new page:
    1. Create a link to it on some other (related) page.
    2. Save that page.
    3. Click on the link you just made. The new page will open for editing.
  • Please do not create a new article without linking to it from at least one other article.

When making a new page, be sure to check your spelling of your link, this is to avoid alot of mis-spelled entries that need to be deleted (mistakes do happen however :).

Links can contain spaces. For example: "Town Halls" is a valid link.

Try and keep titles as short as possible, yet also informitive about what the entry is about, i.e. "Yamato" instead of "Yamato Shangri La Villiage".

If you make an entry based on resources that can be linked to and you have the links handy, please provide them at the bottom of the page (or wherever else relevant). Forum links, New World Notes, and google links are examples. It will be helpfull if Forum Links and NWN Links are labeled as such, example: "Forum Link: Blah".

Corrections/Editing

To edit an entry/page, simply click "edit" at the top of each page.

Before correcting a page, Refresh the page you wish to correct, sometimes pages will remain cached for your browser and you may go to correct something that already has been corrected.

Also be sure to refresh the editing page, otherwise you may mistakenly recreate errors that have been fixed since your last edit of that entry.

If you're unsure of a correction or an edit, you can add a "(?)" next to what you're unsure about, i.e. "They then all ate large hams(?), on this date.(?)". Or if you're really unsure about something you can add a comment where appropriate.

If you do correct something and you know the correction to be true, take out any comments or incorrections.

Please mark small edits, such as spelling corrections, syntax fixes, etc. as "This is a minor edit" by clicking the check box under the editing text box on the edit page. Also it will help to provide a short Summary of the edit to inform others of what exactly was changed.

Miscellaneous

To see changes made to a certain page click "history" at the top of that page.

At the bottom of each "edit" page edit box there is a link to basic instructions on how to do formating.

Questions? Help?

If you have a question or need help contact Oz Spade or post on the Historical Society Group Forums: SLUniverse Forum Link: SLHS Group Forums

For more help see the Wikipedia Help or Wikimedia Help, both provide more information than you could ever want on Wiki stuff.

Sim Histories section

Some rules to keep this all organized!

  1. Try and keep the sims themselves in alphabetical order.
  2. Name the entries for sims the exact spelling of the sim.
  3. Keep all entries for each sim in chronological order as best as you can.
  4. Pictures are good, but keep them sane and usefull.

If we keep to these rules it'll make it much easier in the future, since there are SO many sims. Thanks! -Hiro Pendragon