Wiki Etiquette

Here are a few guidelines we ask everyone to follow on this wiki, to help avoid stepping on each other's toes:

• Search for a page before creating a new one.
• Make sure your links work.
• Don't leave blank pages without a note saying you intend to come back and finish them - and then do so! (Each page has a discussion page for talking about its content: changes suggested, work in progress, and so on.)
• Check the history of a page before making changes, and be sensitive about editing other people's work.
• If you're about to make significant changes - for example, rewriting an important page or changing the category structure - post on Central to say so. That way you can find out if anyone else is planning the same thing, and find people who might want to review your changes.
• Message people listed in the page 'history' to ask if they'd like to review your changes.
• This wiki has categories - the filing system for all these pages - so please use them!
• Avoid acronyms where you can.
• Look at other pages in the same category as your proposed new page, and choose a title that fits any naming pattern already established.
• Good categories, good keywords and succinct page titles all help people find information easily when searching, so these are all worth getting right!

You can find a list of categories via the toolbox on the left: Special Pages > List of Pages > Categories. You can also see all the pages, in their categories and portals, on this spreadsheet: [1]

Remember too that the wiki lets you watch for edits on pages you're interested in - if someone changes a page you're watching, the wiki emails you. It has a sophisticated way of comparing versions, so you can then decide whether to challenge the change or leave it be.

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