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====== Style Guidelines (Wiki Edits) ====== | ====== Style Guidelines (Wiki Edits) ====== | ||
- | ===== | + | ===== Wiki Editing Rights ===== |
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+ | 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 " | ||
- | 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. | ||
===== Text Content Guidelines ===== | ===== Text Content Guidelines ===== | ||
- | - Do NOT use abbreviations that aren't common/ | + | * Many wiki readers aren't fluent in English. Please choose your words carefully. |
+ | * Avoid using specialized | ||
+ | * 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. | ||
- | in the industry. | ||
- | Not everyone | + | ===== Layout/ |
- | e.g. " | + | Following style guidelines makes pages easier |
- | 1) doesn' | + | * Add a meaningful title for each wiki page, and format |
- | + | * Subheadings | |
- | 2) doesn' | + | * Subheadings below that use the Heading3 format. |
- | + | * Indicate web interface menu paths like this: "//Administration/ | |
- | e.g. Don't use " | + | * Always |
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- | Anyways, the whole wiki is about FreshTomato, | + | |
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- | to write " | + | |
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- | - Avoid use of the word " | + | |
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- | It should be used only when something is unusually important. | + | |
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- | Using it constantly is like using underlining constantly, it causes | + | |
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- | the text to lose most of its impact, and it makes it more jarring to read. | + | |
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- | We will eventually decide on a standard | + | |
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- | for different levels of information, warnings, etctera. | + | |
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- | - Avoid using any underlining. Underlining is consider by those | + | |
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- | in the print, web and type industries to be mostly obsolete. It was | + | |
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- | appropriate when typewriters still existed, but now that we have | + | |
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- | all the tools of digital layout/ | + | |
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- | And it makes things harder to read. | + | |
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- | - Please keep with the standard formatting conventions being | + | |
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- | used for type, such as (sub)Heading levels and body text. Changing things | + | |
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- | from standard formatting makes things confusing and harder to read. | + | |
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- | It will also make future changes to formatting more difficult and time-consuming. | + | |
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- | - Please be careful to spell words properly, or if you just can't be bothered, | + | |
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- | use a browser-based spellchecker, | + | |
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- | There' | + | |
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- | -Please, no underlining. As I mentioned upthread, underlining comes from the | + | |
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- | typewrite age, and is now considered almost completely obsolete. Almost | + | |
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- | any standard type of formatting works better. | + | |
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- | - Please avoid writing " | + | |
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- | Better formatting (which I'm working on)Seeing | + | |
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- | the word note is supposed to make something stand out, but when it's | + | |
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- | used so often, it just does the opposite. Sort of like the way some people | + | |
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- | bold constantly. I loses its effect. Eventually, better formatting will make | + | |
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- | this obsolete anyways. | + | |
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- | When referring to menus, we've mostly been using frontslashes. | + | |
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- | For example, | + | |
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- | "navigate to Administration/ | + | |
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- | I think this works fairly well, and is easy to read. | + | |
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- | There' | + | |
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- | - As rs232 was always reminding us, please remember to | + | |
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- | take screenshots with the Tomato | + | |
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- | Also, black screens of different resolution are sometimes really hard | + | |
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- | to read, at least on my monitor. | + | |
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- | Please use quotation marks only when necessary/ | + | |
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- | Quotation marks are used for something someone said, something | + | |
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- | that is an expression, slang and similar. They' | + | |
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- | no sense for common terminology. For example, the word keypair | + | |
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- | doesn' | + | |
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- | in encryption. There' | + | |
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- | time. If you're not sure, please leave them out. | + | |
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- | - If you're not going to do much formatting, please at least | + | |
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- | try to use Heading1 for the title so the page has a proper title on the top. | + | |
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- | Please use rounded brackets () instead of squared brackets. They | + | |
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- | are more appropriate, | + | |
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- | here. | + | |
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- | ===== Layout/ | + | |
- | * Following these guidelines makes the wiki easier to understand, and easier and more pleasant to read.\\ | + | \\ {{: |
- | * Add a meaningful title for each WIKI page, and format it with the Heading1 format. | + | \\ |
- | * Indicate menu paths using notation like this: " | + | |
- | * Use the standard Tomato theme for screenshots. | + | * 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 quotation marks except where absolutely appropriate. Quotation marks are generally only appropriate | + | * Avoid using the word “NOTE”. |
- | * Avoid underlining. It was considered obsolete since the 1980s. | + | * Unless they are in a code window, command |
- | * Avoid using the word “NOTE”. | + | |
- | * Command | + | |
- | * | + | * Avoid using dividing lines. Better spacing, and other formatting methods work better. |