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Welcome, aspiring editor! This work-in-progress guide will hopefully help you get your bearings on the wiki.
==What do I do here?==
Any help is welcome—you can even just fix typos—but there are many larger projects you may like to participate in:
* Creating [[Project:Requests|requested pages]], or articles for other things that you know about
* Writing and expanding [[Project:Word articles|word articles]]
* Expanding lists of [[media]]
* Writing [[:Category:Essays|essays]]
* Adding missing information, especially to [[:Category:Articles needing work|articles marked as needing work]]
* [[#Source what you can|Adding sources to articles]], especially in [[:Category:Articles with unsourced statements|articles with the <code><nowiki>{{citation needed}}</nowiki></code> template]]
* Fixing [[#Formatting|formatting]], especially in [[:Category:Unadapted imported pages|unadapted imported pages]]
* And many more projects tracked in the <code>#{{tok|pali}}</code> forum thread on the [[Project:Discord|Discord server]]
==Technical==
===Moderation===
Your first edit won't appear immediately and will instead be sent to the moderators for approval. This is to prevent trolls from making new accounts purely to grief the wiki.<ref group="lower-alpha">And if they insist, they'll have to make at least one useful edit per account, which is a net win for us!</ref>
==Policy==
===Be bold===
{{Hatnote|See also
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If you have an idea for an edit or page, but you're not sure whether others will like it, just do it! Everyone can easily bring a page back to a previous version, so it's impossible to permanently "ruin" anything. [[mw:Help:Patrolling|Patrolling]] ensures that every edit will be inspected by at least one other person.
===Be messy===
{{Hatnote|See also [https://mspaintadventures.fandom.com/wiki/MSPA_Wiki:Sloppy_is_fine the MS Paint Adventures Wiki policy] and the talk page for this article.}}
An unfinished or messy page is infinitely better than no page at all. Even if you never come back to it, [[Special:AncientPages|someone else surely will]].<ref group="lower-alpha">Heck, this very guide started as barely more than an outline!</ref> Slap a <code><nowiki>{{Needs work}}</nowiki></code> template on top and let others work their magic.
(But as a corollary, do make the page however good you can, so that others can work off of it as easily as possible.)
===Notability===
{{Hatnote|See [[Project:Notability]].}}
===Source what you can===
{{Main|Project:Citing sources}}
It might be difficult to find sources, so just source what you can (if anything)! Primary sources are fine. For general information, we have lists of common resources and [[:Category:Citation templates|citation templates]] to use.
If you cite anything, please [[Project:Citing sources#Archiving sources|archive it]]! Links to Discord uploads are temporary, and so must be archived.
===Details and organization===
There are some useful rules of thumb for coming up with details to include, and deciding how to organize them.
*'''{{w|Inverted pyramid (journalism)|Inverted pyramid}} style:''' Give important info and "conclusions" first. For example, explain common [[style]]s and prototypical usages before [[:Category:Experimental sections|experiments]].
*'''{{w|Five Ws}} (and H):''' The details "who, what, when, where, why, how" are important background information. If these are missing, you can tag the sentence with <code><nowiki>{{wh|</nowiki>''who?''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> or similar.
*'''Follow established layouts:''' You can check articles on similar topics to see how they're laid out and what details they tend to include. (Not a hard rule; some articles do call for unique section headings.)
*'''No {{w|Project:Manual of Style/Trivia sections|trivia sections}}.''' This has a few prongs:
**Put new facts in relevant sections. The lead section counts! If no section fits yet, you can add one—just make it specific. The heading can be any {{w|noun phrase}}, after all.
**No lists of miscellaneous information. These grow rampant and disorganized into [//tvtropes.org/Administrivia/ThreadMode walls of contradictory points], where even general info becomes impossible for the reader to find.
**Something literally {{wikt|trivial}} ("of little value") need not be on a wiki. (But many "trivia" points sell themselves short, and would be useful if better placed!)
===Red links are not bad===
{{Hatnote|See also {{w|Wikipedia:Red link}}.}}
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{{w|MediaWiki#Wikilinks|Red links}} point to [[Special:WantedPages|wanted pages]] that don't exist yet. This is good:
*It shows gaps in our knowledge base.
*It helps us keep track of pages to create. (See [[Special:WantedPages]].)
*It prevents pages from starting out [[Special:OrphanedPages|orphaned]].
Don't remove red links just for being red links. Only remove one if it wouldn't be reasonable to create a page at that title. (And remember that a page can be a redirect or a [[:Category:Disambiguation pages|disambiguation page]].)
===Trans rights===
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==Formatting==
In addition to [
===Italics===
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Mark emphasized text with <code><nowiki><em>emphasized text</em></nowiki></code>.
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Mark variables with <code><nowiki><var>variable name</var></nowiki></code>.
For other uses
===Language===
{{Shortcut|SP:LANG}}
Mark the language of non-English text with [[Template:lang]].
{{Indent|This lets technologies like screen readers treat the text according to its language (see [[ISO 639-3]]).}}
{{Indent|<code><nowiki>''{{lang|fr|
{{Indent|
Mark unitalicized Toki Pona text with [[Template:tok]].
{{Indent|Italics usually help the reader distinguish between English and Toki Pona text (such as reading "open a tan ale" and "{{tp|open a tan ale}}" with different pronunciations). However, they may be unwanted for names loaned from Toki Pona, direct quotes of unitalicized uses, or for {{tp|[[toki pona taso]]}} pages.}}
{{Indent|<code><nowiki>{{
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Mark text in the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]] with [[Template:IPA]].
===Titles===
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==={{tp|sitelen pona}}===
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Display {{tp|[[sitelen Lasina]]}} or [[UCSUR]] codepoints as {{tp|[[sitelen pona]]}} with [[Template:sp]].
{{Indent|<code><nowiki>{{sp|mu}}</nowiki></code> outputs {{sp|mu}}. Hover or press to see the {{tp|sitelen Lasina}} input.}}
===Links===
Use [[Template:w]] to link to a Wikipedia article, and [[Template:wikt]] to link to a Wiktionary entry.
===Indentation===
Indent with [[Template:Indent]].
{{Indent|Using the <code>:</code> (description detail) syntax without a preceding <code>;</code> (description term) produces invalid HTML, which is [[w:Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Accessibility#Indentation|not accessible]].}}
For a {{w|Project:Hatnote|hatnote}}, use [[Template:Hatnote]] or a <span class="plainlinks">[{{fullurl:Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Hatnote|namespace=10&hidelinks=1&hideredirs=1}} template derived from it]</span>.
===Examples===
Use [[Template:Example]] for all example sentences. Highlight the part of the sentence that is relevant to the article or section with <code><nowiki><mark>highlighted text</mark></nowiki></code>.
===Citations===
{{Hatnote|See {{sect|Project:Citing sources#Formatting}}.}}
===Notice templates===
There are several <span class="plainlinks">[{{fullurl:Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Notice|namespace=10&hidelinks=1&hideredirs=1}} notice templates]</span> that should be used to tell the reader about the nature of an article's topic, such as if it pertains to an unusual [[style of Toki Pona]]. We don't want to mispresent nonstandard features as common if they aren't widely understood or accepted.
===Maintenance templates===
If you find an issue with an article and can't fix it yourself, or not immediately, add a maintenance template. These include:
*[[Template:citation needed]]
*[[Template:dead link]]
*<span class="plainlinks">[{{fullurl:Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Issue|namespace=10&hidelinks=1&hideredirs=1}} All templates derived from Template:Issue]</span>
Remove a maintenance template once the issue is resolved. There may also be cases where you should change one maintenance template to another, such as [[Template:Stub]] or [[Template:Empty]] to [[Template:Needs work]].
If you're looking for something to do, you can check [[:Category:Maintenance]] for issues to fix!
==Layouts==
===Word articles===
See [[Project:Word articles]].
==Notes==
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