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== some editing rules/hints == | == some editing rules/hints == | ||
* | * Please enter a summary of your edit before you save. | ||
* | * Check the preview before you save. | ||
* | * Please make sure that you put your content in the right context, browse through the wiki and use the search function to check that. | ||
* | * If you have created a page that you know is not completed, add a horizontal rule (with ---- at the beginning of a line) at the end, and put TODO: <TASK TO DO> lines below that. A Category <code>TODO</code> can bring all the <code>TODO</code>-pages together. | ||
* | * Maybe it's a good idea if people can contact the author of a page they want contribute to - which is possible if everybody has contact data on their [[Special:Listusers| user page]] (no it's not arule that you should, but often it might help make the result better. | ||
* You can make Your text more readable by using the <code> </code> tag for, say, filenames or shellcommands. The result will look something like this <code>/path/to/my/file/here</code> or this: <code> # apt-get remove --purge login</code> | * You can make Your text more readable by using the <code> </code> tag for, say, filenames or shellcommands. The result will look something like this <code>/path/to/my/file/here</code> or this: | ||
<code> # apt-get remove --purge login</code> | |||
* Check the spelling in Your submissions. Correct orthography helps readability. | |||
---- | ---- | ||
* TODO: maybe we should have a naming scheme for some special page types, like pages describeing user-contributed classes, success stories, and stuff | * TODO: maybe we should have a naming scheme for some special page types, like pages describeing user-contributed classes, success stories, and stuff | ||
Latest revision as of 14:07, 23 January 2006
What would we be without rules?
some editing rules/hints
- Please enter a summary of your edit before you save.
- Check the preview before you save.
- Please make sure that you put your content in the right context, browse through the wiki and use the search function to check that.
- If you have created a page that you know is not completed, add a horizontal rule (with ---- at the beginning of a line) at the end, and put TODO: <TASK TO DO> lines below that. A Category
TODOcan bring all theTODO-pages together. - Maybe it's a good idea if people can contact the author of a page they want contribute to - which is possible if everybody has contact data on their user page (no it's not arule that you should, but often it might help make the result better.
- You can make Your text more readable by using the <code> </code> tag for, say, filenames or shellcommands. The result will look something like this
/path/to/my/file/hereor this:
# apt-get remove --purge login
- Check the spelling in Your submissions. Correct orthography helps readability.
- TODO: maybe we should have a naming scheme for some special page types, like pages describeing user-contributed classes, success stories, and stuff