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[edit] Webcomic Wiki Structure

To help distinguish between basic factual articles on a subject, and the guides on how they are relvant to webcomics, there is a structure that should be followed to enable easy navigation between pages.

• All factual articles about a subject have the prefix _(article) and will be placed in the articles category
• All guides have the prefix _(guide) and will be placed in the guides category
• All tutorials will have the prefix _(how_to) and will be placed in the guides/how to category
• All tips will have the prefix _(tips) and will be placed in the guides/tips category

That may sound complicated, but an easy example is Forums. The guide on how forums are important to webcomics is located at Forums_(guide) The article about what Forums are is lcoated at Forums_(article) and once its written, the how to guide of setting up a forum will be placed at Forums_(how_to)

The Forums pages itself serves as a way of locating all of these articles, check it out to see what I mean

[edit] Style of writing

• Articles whould be written in the third person.
• Where relevant they should be non-gender specific, i.e instead of "he" or "she" use "they" or "one" or "webcomic master".
• Articles should be be free from bias and personal opinion.

[edit] General Wiki Practices

[edit] Review policy and conventions

Make sure that you submit information which is relevant to the specific purpose of the wiki, or your content might be deleted. You can always use the talk pages to ask questions or check to see if your idea will be accepted. Please make note of the license your contributions will be covered with.

[edit] Start editing

To start editing a page, click the Edit this page (or just edit) link at one of its edges. This brings you to the edit page: a page with a text box containing the wikitext – the editable code from which the server produces the finished page, and often called the edit box.

[edit] Type your changes

You can just type your text. However, also using basic wiki markup (described in the next section) to make links and do simple formatting adds to the value of your contribution. The wiki has style guidelines available. If you follow these, your contributions will be more valuable as they won't need to be cleaned up later.

[edit] Summarize your changes

Write a short edit summary in the small field below the edit-box.

[edit] Preview before saving!

When you have finished, click Show preview to see how your changes will look before you make them permanent. Repeat the edit/preview process until you are satisfied, then click Save page and your changes will be immediately applied to the article. Sometimes it is helpful to save in between.

[edit] Capitalization

Normal English capitalization is preferred. There is no need to follow in-game capitalization where it does not make sense. As a general rule capitalize only proper nouns (a noun decribing a unique entity, such as a name or a city).

[edit] Section headers

All section headers should use normal sentence case. The first letter is capitalized and all subsequent words are lower case, except for any proper nouns.

[edit] Quotes

Dialogue text should be written in italics, included in double quotes. Spelling, capitalization and punctuation are copied exactly. Any text highlighted in the in-game dialogue is bolded.

[edit] Wiki links

For each article, it is preferable that only the first instance of a particular term or name be made a wiki link. Subsequent linking of the same term or name should be avoided. Direct links are preferred over links through redirects.

[edit] Text emphasis

If a particular word or phrase of a sentence warrants emphasis, avoid using capital letters. "Do NOT add unconfirmed information." is inelegant compared to "Do not add unconfirmed information."

[edit] Most frequent wiki markup explained

Here are the most frequently used types of wiki markup.

You can ''italicize text'' by putting 2 
apostrophes on each side. 

3 apostrophes will embolden '''the text'''. 

5 apostrophes will embolden and italicize 
'''''the text'''''.

(4 apostrophes don't do anything
special -- there's just ''''one left
over''''.)

You should "sign" your comments 
on talk pages:
* Three tildes give your user
name: ~~~
* Four tildes give your user 
name plus date/time: ~~~~
* Five tildes give the 
date/time alone: ~~~~~

== Section headings ==
''Headings'' organize your writing into sections.
The Wiki software can automatically generate
a table of contents from them.

=== Subsection ===
Using more equals signs creates a subsection.

==== A smaller subsection ====
Don't skip levels, 
like from two to four equals signs.

Start with 2 equals signs not 1 
because 1 creates H1 tags
which should be reserved for page title.

* ''Unordered lists'' are easy to do:
** Start every line with a star.
*** More stars indicate a deeper level.
*: Previous item continues.
** A new line
* in a list  
marks the end of the list.
* Of course you can start again.

# ''Numbered lists'' are:
## Very organized
## Easy to follow
A new line marks the end of the list.
# New numbering starts with 1.

: A colon (:) indents a line or paragraph.
A newline starts a new paragraph. <br>
Often used for discussion on talk pages.
: We use 1 colon to indent once.
:: We use 2 colons to indent twice.
::: 3 colons to indent 3 times, and so on.

Here's a link to the [[Main page]].

[[The weather in London]] is 
a page that doesn't exist
yet. You could create it by 
clicking on the link.

You can link to a page section by its title:

* [[Forums]].

If multiple sections have the same title, add
a number.