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First, if you didn't read the top-of-page notice, we have a Moderation system in place. We instituted it two years ago when we had a literal storm of spammers flooding the wiki with bogus pages. Basically, it works like this: until the admin staff here is confident that you're both not a spammer and know your way around the wiki and our standards, all your edits go into a moderation queue, where they must be approved by a wiki admin before they actually are applied to the page you edited. As ILC noted, we'll reject edits that flunk our style or content guidelines, or which have copyrighted text from TV Tropes. (The latter is basically anything that was added after the change in TVT's Creative Commons license in July 2012.) When we do, though, we'll explain why and point you at what you need to know or do to fix it; rejected edits are ''not'' "one strike and you're out"; you can always try again. |
First, if you didn't read the top-of-page notice, we have a Moderation system in place. We instituted it two years ago when we had a literal storm of spammers flooding the wiki with bogus pages. Basically, it works like this: until the admin staff here is confident that you're both not a spammer and know your way around the wiki and our standards, all your edits go into a moderation queue, where they must be approved by a wiki admin before they actually are applied to the page you edited. As ILC noted, we'll reject edits that flunk our style or content guidelines, or which have copyrighted text from TV Tropes. (The latter is basically anything that was added after the change in TVT's Creative Commons license in July 2012.) When we do, though, we'll explain why and point you at what you need to know or do to fix it; rejected edits are ''not'' "one strike and you're out"; you can always try again. |
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We have a lot of the wiki's look-and-feel sort of "pre-packaged" into templates and boilerplates; this is why we like for people to use the Page Creator, especially when they're starting out. You basically choose a page type, give it a title and hit a button, and you're then put in an editor with a skeleton page that you just have to add content to. (Oh, and don't delete anything that you don't understand -- everything in our page boilerplates has a purpose, and |
We have a lot of the wiki's look-and-feel sort of "pre-packaged" into templates and boilerplates; this is why we like for people to use the Page Creator, especially when they're starting out. You basically choose a page type, give it a title and hit a button, and you're then put in an editor with a skeleton page that you just have to add content to. (Oh, and don't delete anything that you don't understand -- everything in our page boilerplates has a purpose, and the few optional bits are marked with a comment saying so). |
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We use MediaWiki markup (which only makes sense because we're a MediaWiki wiki). It overlaps a bit with PMWiki (TVT's original wiki code), but is very different (and far more flexible) in other ways. We have a whole namespace of help files, but [[All The Tropes:So You're a TV Tropes Refugee]] should have everything you need to get started. [[Help:Formatting]] also has lots of helpful info. |
We use MediaWiki markup (which only makes sense because we're a MediaWiki wiki). It overlaps a bit with PMWiki (TVT's original wiki code), but is very different (and far more flexible) in other ways. We have a whole namespace of help files, but [[All The Tropes:So You're a TV Tropes Refugee]] should have everything you need to get started. [[Help:Formatting]] also has lots of helpful info. |
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