Help:How to maintain a wiki

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When in doubt, search the web.
A search like mediawiki make new template can be useful. Also try sites like MediaWiki and ShoutWiki Help for information.


Honestly, the message box above says everything I need to tell you. Apart from that...

We organize our pages into namespaces, which are specific areas that separate articles between topics. Help:Home, for instance, is a page called Home residing in the namespace called Help.

  • Main is the normal one, which displays just the article name. Pages for the public go here.
  • Project is for internal documentation. Things pertaining to the club, and for members of the club, go here.
  • Help is where you go to get help with the wiki. I want to keep it small to reserve effort for the more important parts of the wiki. User:PocketEngi, the wiki's first administrator (established 2013-2014), wants YOU to keep this place healthy.
  • Template is where templates are stored. They're used for canned responses or things that need to exist on many pages. They save time copying and pasting; you can instead link to the template to display it in a page.

Tips

  • Use the Discussion tab. When talking about wiki pages, it totally beats talking with fellow members elsewhere.
  • Know CSS and good wiki practices. It's how the wiki stays clean and usable.
  • Keep everything up to date. Old information isn't helpful, especially in documentation.
  • Categorize! It's how anyone would know where an article exists. (Learn about wiki categories.)
  • Use a navigation template to allow readers to move between related pages. It de-isolates pages, making them much easier to come across.
  • Add redirects to make pages easier to access. Strawberry ice cream and strawberry-flavoured ice cream should lead to the same page, for example.