Notes for Editors

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Please review this Wiki's Manual of Style before adding or editing pages. Also, familiarize yourself with MediaWiki formatting. For general text formatting and other help making entries in this Wiki, see Help.


Sierra Wiki Rules


No Illegal or Controversial Material

To avoid legal issues, do not include or link to illegal content, such as abandonware sites. Also, please avoid entering anything that may cause the Wiki to become targeted by various filters or blocks.



Extensions

A few wiki extensions have been installed to extend functionality and to ease editing.

  • Cite Helps in adding footnotes and citations.
  • InterWiki - Provides a linking shortcut to other Wikis and common reference sites.
  • OggHandler - Allows embedding of .OGG AND .OGV files.


Other


Using Audio and Video Files

Media can be included in your entries. See the Embedding Audio and Video help page for more information.


Categories

Please add any relevant categories at the bottom of any new articles you create.

Be sure that you check to see if a category already exists before creating a new one.

If similar categories with slightly different names are used, the different pages will will not be added to the same category and create "orphan" pages. See the Categories, Unused Categories and Wanted Categories pages to check for similar existing categories first.

To add a page or article to a category use this code at the bottom of the page to add it to the specified category:


[[Category:Category Name]]


(be sure to change "Category Name" to the name of the desired category). Use as many as is appropriate for your new entry. After saving the page you will see a link at the bottom of the page to that category, as this article is linked to the Wiki Help category at the bottom of this page.