Electowiki:The electowiki handbook: Difference between revisions

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)
(Created #Templates section (linking to Special:PrefixIndex/Template:), made #Election-related templates into a subsection, and added to Category:Help)
(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))
 
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== Wiki ==
:''main: [[Help]]''
Electowiki''electowiki'' runs on the [[MediaWiki]] engine, just like Wikipedia and many other [[wiki]]s, so for help with basic markup and editing, you can consult existing pages on those topics:
 
* [[Mw:Help:Contents|MediaWiki help contents]]
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To practice using wiki markup, please use [[Electowiki:Sandbox|the sandbox]].
 
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.
 
See '''[[Help]]''' for more about editing a wiki, or for specific information about [[MediaWiki]].
 
== 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, thoughthe 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 ==