CWJKI:Guide

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

For any further assistance than this, join the Aunt Myrna's Parlour Discord server, and ask in the #wiki-wiki channel.

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.

General 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 are 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.

Archiving

Come across an interesting source such as a controversial YouTube clip or information made by the Jack? Archive it! Jack is notorious for going DFE ("Delete Fucking Everything") for his "controversial" YouTube clips, anything he deems as being taken over by "haters" (such as his Whisk page when it got raided by trolls) or simply proven slightly wrong (such as Facebook statuses or comments) to preserve his fragile ego. Always take screenshots or archive webpages. The main archival tools are the Wayback Machine (https://web.archive.org) and Archive Today (https://archive.today).

LolCowGo

Use Should I Series' LolCowGo website to look up keywords said by Jack in videos. Note that not every video is indexed, as the website uses YouTube's automated subtitles.

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, 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}}

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.}}

Adding quotes

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

You can add a (humorous) 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. Mind the picture size; leave it like this.

{{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
|}}