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This is an old revision of WikiStyleGuide made by darkcity on 2012-09-05 07:23:36.
Wiki Style Guide
Style guide aims
- Reduce presentational differences between articles.
- Reduce wiki categorization omissions and errors.
- Improve usability and accessibility for all wiki visitors.
- Also see WikiTemplates, templates may require updating before being cloned.
- Style guide is a work in progress, please comment ideas and queries below.
Titles
H3 title may only be used once at top of article.
==== Title ====
H5 size titles to designate article sections
== Section ==
Use bold to designate article sub-section
Sub-Section
**Sub-Section**
Headers can be directly link to for example: http://puppylinux.org/wikka/WikiStyleGuide#hn_Titles
Breadcrumbs
Breadcrumbs are used at the top of the articles. They point to index pages and help give the wiki structure. If a page has no other pages linking to it and no category, then a user might not find it. Think about which index the page belongs to. For example, media player software would go on the Multimedia software index, code:
[[HomePage]] > [[SoftwareIndex Software Index]] > [[SoftwareMultimedia Multimedia]]
Footers
Articles should include a Category footer, for example
(line return here) (line return here) ---- ==Categories== CategoryExample
Paragraph Indents
Paragraphs should come immediately under the title and be indented using a tab, use tab key or ~ character. An exception is categories (and tables while the Wikka bug persists).
Links
Try to link internal to the Wiki where possible. This reduces jumping back and forth between websites. At the end of a pages relevant internal links are often listed under Also on the Wiki and relevant external links Related Websites.
Forum Links
If it isn't obvious from the url where a link goes please provide this information. An example is forum links, as they only show a number and not the thread's or post's title. Example:
[[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=80232 Help needed writing the Wiki thread]]
Puppy related software offered for download (pet files etc)
Provide a direct link or link to where it can be downloaded. It is help to provide the version in the link, and comment who the packager is. Software icons go above the title and may point to an external link, for example:
{{image url="http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/image/qtractor.png" link="http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/qtractor-index.html" title="qtractor icon" alt="qtractor icon"}}
====Qtractor====Tables
Used for data or to create columns. There is currently an error in Wikka that breaks the formatting if a table in indented. Here an example of table code:
| Header 1 | Header 2 |
|---|---|
| Cell 1 | Cell 2 |
|=|Header 1|=|Header 2|| ||Cell 1||Cell 2||
Red text
Should be used for warnings and alerts and not in titles either.
Warning:
{{color text="Warning:" c="red"}}Underline
Use underline to call attention to text within the article (not in titles).
significant
__significant__
Bullet Points
Use a list to place bullets on special points within articles.
- This is a bulleted point
CamelCase and internal links
CamelCase is used by Wikka to denote an internal link. Pages that don't have CamelCase style names need the double square bracket, for example:
[[alsa]]
Sometimes you don't want to link to a page, use the double quotes
LinkNotWanted
""LinkNotWanted""
If a page doesn't exist but would be useful in the future - leave the link in place, this will remind people that the page is desired.
HTML
Avoid HTML in articles, not all editors are proficient with it. Most things can be done in wiki code and the Wikka software is under active development. The double quotes is used to denote html, double quotes are also used to prevent unwanted linking, see above.
Pictures and graphics
Use a title text and alt text. This enables people who use screen readers to better understand articles.
{{image url="http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=57682" title="filetype icon" alt="filetype icon"}}Text and graphics are preferred for articles
Many people either do not have access to broadband or can’t afford it. Video is of no use to people using Screen Readers.
Vertically tall graphics should be placed on the right
So text may flow up and left of them. Vertically short graphics may simply be placed normally and thus appear on the left. The code below is taken from the Dpup article article
{{image class="right" url="http://dpup.org/images/beta4-3.jpg" title="Dpup screenshot" alt="Dpup screenshot"}}{{image url="http://www.dpup.org/images/logo.gif" title="Dpup.org logo" alt="Dpup.org logo"}}
Alternatively, the graphic can be sized using height and width attributes.
Colors
Example, coming: soon
{{color text="color" c="teal"}} {{color text="color text" c="fuchsia"}}Page development and Discuss
If you are making a major/controversial change to a page please comment below the page first. This allows other users to give feedback. The comment button is equivalent to wikipedia's talk area on pages. The RecentlyCommented pages show the most recent discussion.
