VsWiki:Manual of Style
General
This page should proof as a guide for anyone editing the wiki.
There are no fixed rules though, especially, if something can be done better/easier/more efficient. See the [[Talk:VsWiki:Manual_of_Style|talk]] section for discussions on this guide.
In general you can get an preview of what we want to do in the Wikipedia style and how-to category.
Quick overview on editing
You can get a quick overview of how to edit this wiki here: WikiPedia:How to edit a page.
Please try out how to edit the wiki in the SandBox before doing any page-editing one 'living' pages.
Head to the Village Pump and make any discussions you wish about better organizing the wiki, or adding major new additions to the wiki.
See the Article Requests for Needed/wanted pages.
See for a list of pages that are in need of attention..
Vegastrike name
This is about the mentioning of the name Vegastrike or Vega Strike etc...
- Please see the discussion here: Talk:Vegastrike#Vegastrike_.28name.29_discussion
Header and title style
General
If you add headers to a page or make a new page (title), please try to avoid extremly long sentences.
Up to ~4 words should be able to sum up the page. If it's longer you may have to split the content anyway ;)
The name header/title should be formed like a correct sentence. (e.g capital letters = First one of sentence + 1st of names + alot of abbreviations)
Database entry names
See Talk:Upgrades for a short listing on this issue. This will be moved to this place in the future FIXME
See also
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings)
- Wikipedia:Headings
- Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles -> Headings
Templates
See VsWiki:Templates for availabe templates and how to use them.
Content
Classify the content in categories
See Special:Categories for all available (and used :S ) categories, use them wisely.
See the manual and database pages for examples or browse the categories to figure out what categories are used for what content.
Links (Crosslinks)
Please do add crosslinks into the page you are creating/editing, but don't push it.
For example there is no need to re-link a word again and again. In most cases one single link on the first occurence of the word/term is enough. Of course if there is a long paragraph then a re-link is the better way to go.
See also
Images
General images
Most of the images currently used in the Wiki (especially in the Manual) are located in the wiki-manual gallery (http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/gallery/wiki_manual).
Some of them may already be available as template as well under VsWiki:Templates
Keyboard images
Please see Manual:Keyboard layout for more info on how top easily include keys in you text (via Templates).
Unfinished stuff
If you are writing content for the manual (or general the wiki) and you do not know anything about some part of it, just put the FIXME tags in your text.
You page will then be listed in the where every editor should look into from time to time ;)
