CWJKI:Guide

A simple set of information to follow when editing the CWJki.

Guidelines

Before you start

• Check if the article you want to write isn't already 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.
• Use "quotation marks" when referring to a specific video or other piece of media.

Date format

Similarly to the CWCki, using the European date format is encouraged, as in:

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

Not only is this less confusing for international viewers than numerical dating (DD/MM/YY or MM/DD/YY), but it also saves us one whole byte of server space everytime we skip the comma usually used in American dating! Wow!

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 edgy either. Keep it encyclopedic, with a little humor in between.

Tips

Using Kiwi Farms links

The wiki's host blocks all mentions of "kiwifarms dot net" (thanks to Liz Fong Jones' crusade on Kiwi Farms) and attempting to add it to articles will result in an error. Alternatively, you can write "kiwi/fruit.net" which will correct itself to "kiwifruit.net" by a wiki extension. This has been fixed. For reference citations, you can link to Kiwi Farms using the current kiwifarms.st domain.

Using ChatGPT for editing assistance

ChatGPT excels as a grammar checker, surpassing Grammarly in capability. You're encouraged to use ChatGPT, especially ChatGPT 4, for revising articles or paragraphs to enhance grammar, conciseness, and overall fluency. Additionally, ChatGPT can be a valuable tool for cleaning up Mediawiki source code when editing pages.

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>

<ref name="TESTING"/>

To add a "References" section at the end of an article, use the following code:

==References==
{{reflist}}

Further assistance

Simply join the Aunt Myrna's Parlour discord group and ask in the #wiki-wiki channel if you require any assistance with regards to editing or publishing an article on the CWJki!