Wiki 101
Category:Informational -> Wiki
Will Rice’s entire website is a wiki. That means anyone can edit it, so don’t hold back! If you know what you’re talking about and it’s WRC-related, wiki it.
Wikis are a great way for lots of people to pool their knowledge, but they can also become cluttered and hard to read. Remember that this is our official webpage, and like a nice car, we want to keep it clean and sexy so please consider these suggestions:
- Since it’s the Will Rice website, anything you post will be assumed to be about Will Rice. Instead of “the Will Rice Technology Club”, write “the Technology Club”
- The wiki is a source of information. Avoid first person. Instead of “we meet…” say “The running club meets…”
- When talking about time be specific. Instead of “during the race this year” use “during the 2010 race” Don’t edit a quote unless you’re absolutely sure it’s wrong. Don’t even edit errors in a quote.
- The wiki is publicly accessible. Do not post anything you might regret later. Instead of “Rog and Nico celebrated their Beer Pong-a-thon 2009 victory with a round of cocaine” consider nothing.
- The wiki is factual. If inserting bias, be sure to cite where these biases come form. So instead of “Jones College is a terrible place” use “According to Kyle Clark, Jones College is a terrible place.”
- Suggestions! We’re always looking for ways to improve the site, so if you spot any bugs or would like to make any recommendations, post it to the suggestions page or email the Technology Committee heads.
- Use wiki synax to create links between wiki pages. You can create a link to another page by enclosing a page name in double brackets: “pagename” You can link to pages that exist, or to pages that you think ought to exist if anybody ever wanted to write them.
- If you know HTML, you can use HTML code to format content.
- Please don’t post full email addresses. (We’d hate for them to get picked up by spam bots.) For Rice, just write the email address and the at sign. For other domains, consider leaving off the .com (or .org, or whatever), or do something to make the email address incomplete (like replace “@” with “-at-“).