Wikia Help:Maintenance
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This article concerns maintenance of the Wikia Help project. Note that only articles in the Help: namespace are candidates for transclusion.
[edit] Help articles
All general help articles come under Category:Help, and reside in the Help: namespace. Anything under this is a "live" page. Every help article should be categorised into Category:Help along with any subcategories.
See Wikia Help:Site Map for a full list of active pages.
[edit] Categories
Category:Help should be added to articles directly. Most subcategories must be added to categories manually.
[edit] Design guidelines
- Colour neutral - should be readable on dark wikis.
- No fancy formatting - should not look out of place.
- Links should stay simple, on-wiki. Avoid interwiki.
- Must look friendly and clean! Use lots of screencaps, headers, and whitespace. Keep to one screen. Reduce other visual clutter.
- Ensure policies ("Why" and "Why not") are cleanly separated from instructions ("How"), but provide prominent links back and forth.
[edit] Project maintenance
All Wikia Help maintenance articles come under Category:Wikia Help maintenance, and reside in the Wikia Help: namespace. Help pages can also be developed in this namespace.
[edit] Categories
- Category:Articles transcluded from Central Wikia - created by {{Central transclusion}}
- Category:Draft help - draft help pages (not ready for public consumption), marked by {{Draft}}
- Category:Expand - articles needing expansion, manually added
- Category:Images - category system for images. A variety of templates exist for categorization, see #Images and files.
- Category:Out of date help - articles needing rewrites, marked by {{Out of date help}}
- Category:Videos - category for video files. A variety of templates exist for categorization, see #Images and files.
- Category:Wikia Help templates - templates used on Wikia Help
[edit] Templates
Overview of templates available for use on Wikia Help:
[edit] Banners and categorising
- Extensions
- {{Available on request}} - use for extensions available on request
- {{Beta}} - use for extensions in development phase
- {{Enabled by default}} - use for extensions enabled by default
- Navigation
- {{New Content Namespaces}} - navigation for new content namespaces
- {{Profile tools}} - navigation for profile tools
- Article type
- {{New feature}} - use to mark new features
- {{Monaco page}} - use for articles specific to Monaco skin
- {{Monobook page}} - use for articles specific to Monobook skin
- Maintenance
- {{Central transclusion}} - use to transclude articles from Central Wikia.
- {{Draft}} - use to mark draft help pages (those not ready for public consumption)
- {{Out of date help}} - use to mark help pages needed updates
- {{Wikipedia}} - to mark articles as using Wikipedia content
[edit] Images and files
- {{Monaco image}} - marks screenshot of Monaco skin
- {{Monobook image}} - marks screenshot of Monobook skin
- {{Wikia-copyright}} - use on images of Wikia logos, marks screenshot copyright of Wikia
- {{Wikia-screenshot}} - use on images of wikis, explains copyright
[edit] General use
- {{!}} - for complex template use
- {{File}} - used for file download boxes
- {{QuestInfobox}} - used for infobox example
- {{Notice}} - used to make article management boxes
- {{Tocright}} - moves ToC to right
- {{T}} and {{T/piece}} - for template links
- {{Ifexist}} - links a page only if it exists
- {{Unsigned}} - for signing comments on talk pages
- {{YouTube}} - sample display box for Youtube vids
- {{User Wikia}} - appears unused'
- {{Userbox}} - appears unused'
