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Revision as of 01:51, 16 June 2020 (view source) RobLa (talk \| contribs) (→‎About: Wrote up some history from memory, and made "About" about the project. We may turn this section into "History", but that's still TBD) ← Older edit		Latest revision as of 03:30, 12 November 2022 (view source) RobLa (talk \| contribs) (Making it possible to link to Electowiki:Manual of Style by adding a #Style section (and I'll be adding a redirect after saving this)) Tag: Visual edit: Switched
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Line 19: == Wiki == :''main: [[Help]]'' ~~Electowiki~~''electowiki'' runs on the [[MediaWiki]] engine, just like Wikipedia and many other ~~wikis~~[[wiki]]s, so for help with basic markup and editing, you can consult existing pages on those topics: * [[Mw:Help:Contents\|MediaWiki help contents]] Line 26 ⟶ 27: To practice using wiki markup, please use [[Electowiki:Sandbox\|the sandbox]]. See '''[[Help]]''' for more about editing a wiki, or for specific information about [[MediaWiki]]. Best practices for formatting articles generally follow the same rules as [[W:Wikipedia:Manual of Style\|Wikipedia's Manual of style]]. This covers the rules for bolding key words in article intros, using sentence case for article titles and headings, using written-out titles instead of abbreviations, which order to put article sections, etc. We may make our own amendments to this if necessary, though.▼ ~~The rest of this page is for help with Electowiki-specific features (or lack thereof).~~ == Style == {{Wikipedia\|Wikipedia:Manual of Style}} ▲''electowiki'' uses a style as similar as possible to English Wikipedia. Best practices for formatting articles generally follow the same rules as [[W:Wikipedia:Manual of Style\|Wikipedia's Manual of style]]. This covers the rules for bolding key words in article intros, using sentence case for article titles and headings, using written-out titles instead of abbreviations, which order to put article sections, etc. We may make our own amendments to this if necessary. As of 2022-11-11, ~~though~~the most active administrator on this wiki believes other editors should follow [[W:Wikipedia:Manual of Style\|Wikipedia's Manual of style]] almost verbatim. == Automatic citations == Line 88 ⟶ 90: We have a category hierarchy for articles starting at [[:Category:Contents]]. Please put new articles in appropriate categories, especially articles about voting methods. If you write an article about a Condorcet-compliant ranked method, put it in [[:Category:Condorcet methods]], for instance. Generally an article should be placed in a more-specific child category and not in its parent, even if the parent also applies. So a Condorcet method does not need to be placed in [[:Category:Preferential voting methods]], for instance, since that is already implied by being in [[:Category:Condorcet methods]]. == Templates == == Election-related templates ==▼ Templates are one of the most complicated aspects of [[MediaWiki]]. See [[Special:PrefixIndex/Template:]] for a full list of templates on this wiki. ▲=== Election-related templates === When writing an official definition of a voting method, place it in a [[Template:Definition\|definition template]]:<syntaxhighlight> {{definition\| Line 123 ⟶ 129: [[Category:electowiki]] [[Category:Help]]