Category:Informational -> Wiki

The point of the Wiki is that everybody can edit the wiki. Don’t feel limited to only editing pages for your committee, team, etc. If you know what you’re talking about, fire away.

However, please help keep the wiki clean and orderly by adhering to these suggestions…

It’s assumed, unless you say otherwise, that you’re talking about Will Rice:

• instead of “the Will Rice Technology Committee” consider “the Technology Committee”
• instead of “the Will Rice Commons” consider “the Commons”

The wiki can be very useful as a web front for officers, teams, and committees. That said, the wiki should not read like a blog or tabletop flyer. Avoid first person.

• instead of “We meet on every other Monday.” consider “The Technology Committee meets every other Monday.”

The wiki is meant to be an archive of useful information for both future and present audiences. However, nothing guarantees that a particular bit of content will be updated after you write it. Be specific about time:

• instead of “during the race this year” consider “during the 2009 race”
• instead of “last month” consider “in December 2007”
• instead of “last year’s seniors” use “the 2009 graduating class” or “the class of 2009”
• instead of “Diet did such-and-such” use “the 2009-2010 Diet did such-and-such” or “in 2007, the Diet did such-and-such”
• instead of “the current Technology Committee” use “the 2009-2010 Technology Committee”

Consider the broad audience of the site. Only use a joke if you’re sure everybody will understand it:

• instead of “even though Will Rice won the race, Jones won again” consider “Will Rice won the race. (Jones cheered ‘Jones wins again’ anyway.)”

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 a collaborative effort. All the contributors of a page are listed. Only express opinions if they are common to all the contributors:

• Instead of “Jones College is a terrible place” use “According to Kyle Clark, Jones College is a terrible place.”

Use [quote] for things like speeches and cheers.

• Don’t edit a quote unless you’re absolutely sure it’s wrong.
• Don’t even edit errors in a quote. (Perhaps somebody made a grammar error in a speech; the wiki should accurately reflect their original words.)
• Use “(sic)” to denote when errors are included intentionally for accuracy.

This is an example quote. (Michael Rog, 2009-07-17)

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.

You can use Markdown, wiki syntax, pMcode, or HTML to format content.

• intro to Wiki syntax: http://expressionengine.com/docs/modules/wiki/getting_started.html, http://expressionengine.com/docs/modules/wiki/wiki_syntax.html
• pMcode: http://expressionengine.com/docs/general/pmcode.html
• Markdown syntax: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
• HTML formatting: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_formatting.asp

Above all, have fun! If the wiki is made better by you ignoring one of these rules, go ahead. Write anything you think will be useful or interesting, and talk to an administrator if you need help with anything.

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