User:Valento/Recommendations

Wikis are wild beasts when it comes to organizing them, and thus a bit of practices are always healthy. Here's what I think any wiki should follow:

• General
  • There should be guides for each and every page with a similar structure to aid editors on what they should do, guides are what makes a collaborative website grow.
  • Talking about collaborative, wikis are collaborative by nature. Editing and fixing wrong info should be widespread because it benefits mainly the players and once the accuracy is delivered people will love the wiki.
• Writing
  • Avoid over-capitalization. This Is An Example Of Bad Writing, For General Text, Bad Template Name, Category Name, Or Whatever You Can Think Of. Do not write code like that, do not write guides like that, avoid that as much as your heart can possibly allow. There are times you can use capitalized letters, use 'em sparingly.
• Templates
  • Templates shouldn't be heavily used because they stress the server and increase unecessary traffic; always use as few as possible, but do cover whatever structure is needed to make the page look and feel concise.
  • Template pages should have description of itself, complete markup, explanation of each parameter and available parameters, and usage examples.
  • Templates should avoid including others unless this makes sense.
• File pages (images)
  • File pages should have a copyright notice stating who such art belongs to; this is always overlooked and, besides not being nice, can cause legal issues at some point.
  • Images are so important I couldn't stress enough. Editors should always try to sparsely convey data through images because it's been proven by science a lot of our neurons associate information more easily through visual representation, so try and use them!

(To be continued...)