Duke Wiki:Style
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[edit] Style Guide
[edit] Introduction
This page will be a spot for the Duiki community to come together and figure out style considerations. Many of the best wikia took a long, long time to settle on some of the conventions used - but it is in some ways that consistency of style that makes those wikia easy to follow and easy to expand. Wikipedia especially has had an intense number of users quibble over a dizzying array of seemingly meaningless style points - and the rest is a site that has some of the best written, best presented pages.
[edit] Templates
Templates are A Good Thing (tm). If you want to add a page that you think fits into a particular category, it might be worth searching for a template - and if one does not exist, creating one. Or asking another user to create one for you. As an example, the Restaurant Template is useful for presenting the information most commonly requested for different eateries in a consistent format while allowing the rest of the page complete autonomy.
To look at a template, just edit a page with a template in it, then look at the bottom of the browser - Duiki will tell you which templates have been used. More information on templates is available at Wikimedia's Help:Template site.
(however, DukeEgr93 pretty much just makes templates by looking at ones he likes at Wikipedia or other sites...)
[edit] Categories
Category tags let you add a page to a category and also let you add that category to the bottom of a page. For example, at the bottom of Cosmic Cantina you will see that the page is a member of several categories, including Restaurants. If you click on restaurant, you will get a list of all the pages included in that category. Getting something included in the category is literally as easy as putting the following code in the bottom of a page: [[Category:THECATEGORY]] Duiki will take care of everything else.
[edit] References and External Links
Every page should have a spot for references and for external links. If you end up using an in-line citation for reference in the course of a page, that reference should also show up in full at the bottom. For example, with Tyler's Taproom, their web page is used as a reference in the introduction. The number "1" shows up in square brackets to indicate a reference off the Duiki site. Below, in the References section, the web site is given a name.
External links can also be important - these are sites of interest that are not directly used in the construction of the page. For example, again in Tyler's Taproom, the website for the American Tobacco Historic District is given as a link of interest, even though no information from that site was used in building the page.
