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====== Style Guidelines (Wiki Edits) ====== | ====== Style Guidelines (Wiki Edits) ====== | ||
- | ===== | + | ===== Wiki Editing Rights ===== |
- | To be able to edit the Wiki, you will need to get new user credentials. To request access, please send a personal message to @rs232, including your email address and preferred username. | + | To be able to edit the Wiki, you will need to get new user credentials. To request access, please send a personal message to user "rs232", including your email address and preferred username. |
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+ | ===== Text Content Guidelines ===== | ||
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+ | * Many wiki readers aren't fluent in English. Please choose your words carefully. | ||
+ | * Avoid using specialized abbreviations that aren't standard across the technology industry or in common English. For example, anyone unfamiliar with Linux/Unix will not know that " | ||
+ | * Avoid non-standard abbreviations/ | ||
+ | * Avoid using the word " | ||
+ | * Avoid using underlining. It's obsolete and inappropriate. Research shows it also makes things harder to read. | ||
+ | * Please view other pages to see what text is capitalized and what is written in lower case (small letters). | ||
+ | * Please use a spell checker. Firefox' | ||
+ | * When referring to FreshTomato' | ||
+ | * Avoid using quotation marks. They' | ||
+ | * Please use rounded brackets () . Square brackets are generally not appropriate here. | ||
- | ===== Text Content Guidelines | ||
===== Layout/ | ===== Layout/ | ||
- | * Following | + | Following |
- | * Add a meaningful title for each WIKI page, and format it with the Heading1 format. | + | |
- | * Indicate menu paths using notation | + | * Add a meaningful title for each wiki page, and format it with the Heading1 |
- | * Use the standard Tomato theme for screenshots. | + | * Subheadings use the Heading2 format. |
- | | + | * Subheadings below that use the Heading3 |
- | * Avoid using quotation marks except where absolutely appropriate. Quotation marks are generally only appropriate | + | * Indicate |
- | * Avoid underlining. It was considered obsolete since the 1980s. | + | * Always use the standard Tomato theme when taking |
- | * Avoid using the word “NOTE”. | + | |
- | * Command | + | \\ {{: |
- | * | + | \\ |
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+ | * Avoid using quotation marks except where absolutely appropriate. Quotation marks are rarely appropriate, | ||
+ | * Avoid underlining. It has been considered obsolete since the 1980s. | ||
+ | * Avoid using the word “NOTE”. | ||
+ | * Unless they are in a code window, command | ||
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+ | * Avoid using dividing lines. Better spacing, and other formatting methods work better. | ||