CWJKI:Guide

A simple set of information to follow when editing the CWJki. Please try and keep a consistent style across the whole wiki. Using the source editor is highly recommended over the visual editor.

For further assistance than the following, join the wiki's affiliated Discord and ask in the #wiki-wiki channel.

Guidelines

Before you start

• Check if the article you want to make hasn't already been made.
• Take a quick look at how to use Wikitext.
• When editing an article, look for any comments within its code that say if you shouldn't be adding something. Comments are hidden like this:

<!-- Hello! -->

Text formatting

• Use bold text when first mentioning an article's subject.
• Use cursive text when referring to a YouTube channel, or general media names like a TV show or movie.
• Use "quotation marks" when referring to a specific video title.

Date format

Similarly to the CWCki, using the European date format is encouraged for compactness and consistency, as in:

D/DD Month Year (Examples: 9 February 2007, 17 June 2018)

Use American spellings otherwise.

Jokes

To make the wiki easier to read for newcomers, try to minimize the use of Jackisms and jokes in articles. Yeah, Jack is fat, and you may mock him for being fat occasionally, but don't overload every section of an article with jokes about how Jack is fat. And don't be overly edgy either. Keep it encyclopedic, with a little humor in between.

General tips

Archiving

Have you come across an interesting source posted by Jack or his peers, such as a controversial YouTube clip or information? Archive it! Jack is notorious for going DFE ("Delete Fucking Everything") for his "controversial" clips, anything he deems as being taken over by "haters" (Such as the Whisk page) or simply proven slightly wrong (Such as Facebook statuses or comments) to preserve his fragile ego. Enough content has been lost to this already. Always take screenshots or archive webpages.

The main archival tools for webpages are the Wayback Machine and Archive Today. Note that certain sites like Facebook cannot be archived like this, and any posts on them must be simply screenshotted. For archiving videos, either download them locally with yt-dlp or paste the link into PreserveTube. Local archives can be posted on file-hosting sites like Catbox or MEGA, the Internet Archive, Jack's Kiwi Farms thread, or directly onto the CWJki (Our current filesize limit is 100MB). Uploading archived videos onto YouTube is possible, but not recommended due to Jack being copyright strike-happy.

FatFatGo

Use the FatFatGo website by CWJki contributor Megadog to look up any keywords said by Jack in videos. The site covers the majority of Jack's YouTube library and his appearances on other people's channels.

The search query uses the Lucene syntax, and results can be sorted by date or relevance.

Quality control and AI usage

Remember to check your edits for misspellings and any formatting errors before submitting. AI tools like ChatGPT or Gemini can work to spell-check and clean up code, however be wary of any obvious signs of AI slop, like an obnoxious usage of em-dashes and hallucinations. Do absolutely not use AI to fully generate text.

Editing tips

Using references

Always reference! Use a healthy amount of references in articles. For now, we don't require any special labelling for references, just a link. To add a reference to an article, use the following code:

<ref>Link goes here!</ref>

If you want to reference one link multiple times, you can add a name tag to the reference:

<ref name="TESTING">Link goes here!</ref>

To cite that reference later in the article, here's what the code would look like:

<ref name="TESTING"/>

To add a "References" section at the end of an article (and you should), use the following code:

==References==
{{reflist}}

Embedding videos

Honestly just read the EmbedVideo documentation for now.

Character age

To write someone's birthday and age in an infobox or somewhere else:

{{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}}

To only calculate someone's age:

{{age|YYYY|MM|DDD}}

Linebreaks

On long pages, add this piece of code at the end of any section where you don't want infoboxes or images to bleed onto the next section:

{{Clear}}

Article labels

To mark an article as a stub, add this at the top of an article:

{{Stub}}

To mark an article as an ongoing event, add this at the top of an article:

{{Ongoing}}

To clear up a common misconception on a subject, use the Jack U label at the relevant section:

{{Lesson|Hey, X is not true. Y, actually.}}

To add a list of to-dos of an article, add this either on top of the article, or right after any relevant section:

{{Agenda|
* A
* B
* C}}

Adding quotes

“	This is a quote.	”
A bloke being quoted.

You can add a quote to an article like so:

{{Quote|This is a quote.|A bloke being quoted.}}

Infoboxes

Jack Fatfani
Image caption! Jack being really fat.
Header on row 1
Label 1	Data 1
Label 2	Data 2A Data 2B Data 2C
Header on row 3
Label 3	Data 3

We use a simple infobox format for now. Mind the picture size; leave it as is.

{{infobox
|title = Jack Fatfani
|image = [[File:Jack dog shirt.jpg|250px]]
|caption = Image caption! Jack being really fat.
|header1 = Header on row 1
|label1 = Label 1
|data1  = Data 1
|label2 = Label 2
|data2  = Data 2A<br>Data 2B<br>Data 2C
|header3 = Header on row 3
|label3 = Label 3
|data3 = Data 3
|}}