This isn't the Documentation Index, this is the tips and advice we give each other on how to keep on top of the wiki day by day. Please add, delete or edit here as you see fit..
- Read other people's stuff. If you want a guide for how to format stuff or how to split main body text versus new pages, I suggest you look at the AurUrbis page.
- Read the Recent Changes log often, see what people have added or edited.
- On the pages, look at the Page History to see exactly what they did.
- Do small bits of work often. Don't set yourself the target of working for three hours and producing a magnum opus. That's the Settings documents. This is suited to just doing 20 minutes adding a small bit of something. Do not be scared to leave stuff half completed. When you come back someone else may have finished it for you!
- Do check that the WikiWord you are creating isn't a very close duplicate of one someone else has done.
- Be bold and edit. If you see something obviously in need of sub editing or fixing, fix it. If you see a bigger problem and feel that you can't solve it, post the query as a comment in italics and post to the Tavern BBS.
- Keep the passwords to yourself!
The PmWiki GoodStyle guide follows.. (if you edit this page you'll see how I use an include directive to do this, this a useful way to re-use text without having to retype it.)
Be aware of these conventions, even if you choose to ignore them.
When you write here, it is a common practice to use the second or third person. Remember Dragnet and write "Just the facts, ma'am." Give concrete advice.
When you do write in the first person, it is conventional to sign your work. To sign a section of a page, add either ~~~ or [[~your name]]
People often use the first person to describe their own experiences.
It is conventional not to change a paragraph that someone else has signed, except to correct obvious mistakes. So if you'd prefer that something you write not be changed, sign it.
Unsigned work is considered open for change. So if you want to, go ahead and change it.
Practice understatement. Use plain language. Be bold and be nice.