SASUKEpedia Editing/General Topic

[scnoi1217]

Hey all,

A few months ago, a thread came up here that had some complaints about SASUKEpedia and its info or the way it was formatted. A big reason why people weren't just editing the wiki themselves was because they didn't know how to edit the wiki.

Thus, Anshinritsumai has made an amazing series of pages for editing SASUKEpedia. Anyone that is confused about what to do or how to edit the wiki, should look here.

Please, we need all the help we can get. There are many, many pages that need to be revised and many more that still need to be created. Any help you can give is appreciated: whether it is just editing grammar, to changing colors of old tables and templates, to making brand new pages, any contributions you make will make the wiki even better. Hopefully, with support, we can get to a point where we have essentially "completed" SASUKEpedia.

Also, we can use this thread for any announcements, questions, comments, concerns, and feedback for SASUKEpedia.

The link to Anshinritsumai's series of pages is here:
sasukepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Standard_Editing_Procedure

[TCM]

Awesome. Thanks to Anshinritsumai for this.

[yamfriend]

Thanks so much to you 2! I've wanted to help out with it for a while (especially the Sasuke music page since that's desperately in need of updating), and with these pages hopefully I'll be able to start doing so whenever I can!

[scnoi1217]

No problem, big big thanks goes to Anshinritsumai for his work on this. If anyone else has any questions, feel free to post them here.

[Anshin]

If anyone gets confused on anything while editing on the wiki, or even reading that guide, let me know here or on the wiki and i'll do what I can to help / better explain things for you all.

We need all the help we can get on the wiki ^^;

[arsenette]

Just have someone oversee what is being posted.. I don't want a friggin' wikipedia thing happening on sasukepedia.. would defeat the purpose.

[Anshin]

Jun 3, 2011 4:29:54 GMT -5 arsenette said:

Just have someone oversee what is being posted.. I don't want a friggin' wikipedia thing happening on sasukepedia.. would defeat the purpose.

This isn't a "rules & regulations" dealio, it's a tutorial / guide to learn how to edit wiki using wiki markup language, and the style that we use for specific page types (competitions, competitors, obstacles, etc).

Essentially, for beginners that don't know how to edit wiki, it teaches how to
- Bold, italics, bold & italics
- Add images, use options for images
- Utilize talk pages and wiki discussion
- Sections, headlines, etc.
- Internal links, external links

For the Sasukepedia specific stuff, it basically teaches...
- Article formatting for competitions.
- Article formatting for competitors.
- Article formatting for obstacles.
- Use of infoboxes, navboxes, and results tables for each article type.

The formatting of pages isn't a "friggin' wikipedia thing" as much as it is a Sasukepedia thing that has been around since Sasukepedia started, it was just more of one of those "unwritten" things that editors pretty much followed regardless because they already knew how to do things.

When you've got about 40 registered editors, and only 5 or so actually editing, it's more about how many of those editors have experience in editing wikis. With those 5 or so editors, we already knew how to do quite a lot in terms of wiki editing, and it was easy for us to just adapt our wiki editing knowledge to the already in-place "unwritten" standards that Sasukepedia used. And that probably (most likely) turned away a lot of other potential editors.

All we did here was to have it written down to introduce new potential editors on "How To" edit wiki in an easy to learn way, and to make sure there's consistency across the same types of articles, as to make it easier to read certain article types, like it always has been in the past.

You wouldn't want to go to the cliffhanger's page only to find out that the results table is nagano's results table for his entire Sasuke career; you'd want to have the cliffhanger's results table on that page instead, so you know which competitions it was in, how many people have attempted, and how many have failed.


This guide hasn't changed anything that wasn't already in-place on Sasukepedia, all it did was document it and present it in a "How To" style guide for new potential editors.