User:Dream

Dream's personal wiki page. Primarily used as warehouse for wiki projects. In need of a lot of work.

Wiki projects

Evawiki's boot camp restructuring.

Structure proposal

• Introduction
  • Be bold!
  • You don't need prior knowledge
  • Keeping up-to-date with the wiki
  • Write in third person

• Basic formatting and editing
  • How to make edits to an article
    • How to create an article
    • What's an Edit Conflict?
  • Headings and sub-headings
  • Bolding and italicizing text
    • Other nice tricks
    • Using supertext (N² Mine, S² Engine, etc.)
  • Making lists
  • Indenting text

• Page/Article management
  • What's up with those buttons atop the page?
  • Linking to other articles
  • What's a Discussion(Talk) page?
  • Creating Categories
  • How to redirect pages
  • Templates

• Images and scribe ettiquette
  • Uploading images to the site
  • Using already uploaded images
  • Montage boxes
  • 32 KB page size limit (probably outdated)
  • How to sign your name

• Where to go from here?
  • If in doubt...

Introduction

Welcome! It's great to have another scribe eager to contribute to the ambitious and major project that is the EvaWiki. This page is intended to teach you all the basics (from editing to etiquette) necessary to contribute to the EvaWiki as a productive scribe. While it is by no means a full or comprehensive guide to all the tools, qualities or elements that the wikicode has to offer, it has all that is necessary to bring you from someone with no experience in wikicode to a functional scribe. We hope you enjoy your short time throught this boot camp.

Be bold!

You should be bold when it comes to updating pages or adding content into the site. This wiki has been primarily concerned with getting content created and uploaded than in smoothing out the information (in no small part due to it's low activity), and that's also the case today. Do not feel anxious or apprehensive at the time of adding new content or editing existing one, every bit of effort and contributions make the wiki a greater, better place even if some mistakes may be made along the way.

But above all, remember that wiki sites like these rely on the contributions of many different people for their content and quality. Next time you stroll around the wiki and see a few typos or sections with a few blemishes, you will be able to fix those errors (or add new content) and bring the wiki a little bit closer to it's ideal every time. We don't wish to just "allow" you to contribute to the wiki, we eagerly invite you to.

You don't need prior knowledge

While of course it is preferred (or at least easier) that you have knowledge or skill in MediaWiki, that is ultimately a secondary quality. The primary quality here is passion and knowledge about Evangelion. The vast majority of the wiki-code you will use is basic coding like the one shown in this tutorial. If you wish to either clarify some doubt about wiki-code, utilize more advance wiki-code, or simply improve your skills with wiki-code, you could either ask a member with knowledge of such matters for either explanations or assistance, or bring it up in the forum's "Editorium" section.

It should also be noted that this wiki is meant to be accessible both on the reader and scribe end. You will not be penalized, shunned, or discriminated in your contributions if you haven't seen much Evangelion material, just started getting into Evangelion, never analyzed the series, or anything of the sort. Once again, be bold in contributing to the wiki.

Keeping up-to-date with the wiki

There's the Editorium section on the forum, as well as a Recent Changes page where the most recent activity on any part of the wiki is listed.

Finally, there are also certain page categories intended to include the articles deemed in most need of current attention:

• Stub Articles
• Pages needing various kinds of help
• Wanted pages

Write in third person

Avoid use of first person or anything that makes you as an individual scribe stand out in the actual article. Not only is this unsightly and disruptive to the article's flow, but it's also contrary to the spirit we strive towards in this wiki. The wiki is intended to be a collaborative project of the EGF community, not the interpretations of a particular few.

So please use wording like "It is well known that" or "It can be noticed that" rather than wording like "I know that" or "I noticed that". Remember that the "Show preview" button is always just a click away.