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Mark the titles of longform works with <code><nowiki><cite>Title</cite></nowiki></code>. (This is not to be confused with actual [[mw:Help:Cite|citations]], which use the <code><nowiki><ref>…</ref></nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki><references /></nowiki></code> tags.) |
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{{Indent|<code><nowiki><cite>Toki Pona Dictionary</cite></nowiki></code> outputs <cite>Toki Pona Dictionary</cite>.}} |
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Revision as of 03:18, 23 January 2024
Welcome, aspiring editor! This work-in-progress guide will hopefully help you get your bearings on the wiki.
What do I do here?
- even just fix typos
- sources
- formatting
- media
- make requested pages or ones you know about
- write essays
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.[a]
Policy
Be bold
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. Patrolling ensures that every edit will be inspected by at least one other person.
Be messy
An unfinished or messy page is infinitely better than no page at all. Even if you never come back to it, someone else surely will.[b] Slap a {{Needs work}}
template on top and let others work their magic.
Source what you can
Unlike topics covered by Wikipedia, there aren't many public reliable sources for Toki Pona. (In fact, this very wiki was made to fill that gap!) As such, it's fine if an article doesn't have any citations, though they're always appreciated. Potential resources include:
- pu and ku, if you have them
- freely-available fragments, such as the pu dictionary or "Notes on lipu pu"
- other materials by jan Sonja, e.g. the tokiponization guidelines
- lipu Linku
- anything on the Recommended learning resources page
- the Toki Pona census
When using a proficient speaker's thoughts as a source, remember to note whether they reflect consensus or are rather their personal nasin. This includes what you may consider "official" material:
This is the way I use Toki Pona.
—pu, p. 7
Resources with open submissions, such as Tatoeba and Glosbe, often attract overconfident beginners and so should be treated with care.
Trans rights
Formatting
In addition to standard MediaWiki formatting, note the following.
Italics
Mark emphasized text with <em>emphasized text</em>
.
Mark Toki Pona text with Template:tp. For other languages, see the next section.
{{tp|mu}}
outputs mu.Mark the titles of longform works with <cite>Title</cite>
. (This is not to be confused with actual citations, which use the <ref>…</ref>
and <references />
tags.)
<cite>Toki Pona Dictionary</cite>
outputs Toki Pona Dictionary.Mark variables with <var>variable name</var>
.
For other uses, you can use ''italic text''
.
Language
Mark the language of non-English text with Template:lang.
{{lang|fr|''je parle bien''}}
outputs je parle bien. Hover to see the language name.Mark unitalicized Toki Pona text with Template:tok.
{{tok|mu}}
outputs mu.Mark text in the International Phonetic Alphabet with Template:IPA.
Titles
Mark a page title as italic or Toki Pona text using Template:Italic title, Template:tp title, or Template:tok
title according to the guidance above.
sitelen pona
Display sitelen Lasina or UCSUR codepoints as sitelen pona with Template:sp.
{{sp|mu}}
outputs mu. Hover or press to see the 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.
:
(description detail) syntax without a preceding ;
(description term) produces invalid HTML, which is not accessible.For a hatnote, use Template:Hatnote or a template derived from it.
Examples
Please use Template:Example for all example sentences, and <mark> the part of the sentence that is relevant to the article or section.
Citations
Please put citations in <ref> tags using the Cite package. Each page should end with a references section. Most sources will probably be cited with Template:cite web. There are also specialized templates like Template:cite pu, Template:cite ku, Template:cite YouTube, Template:cite Discord, and Template:cite lipamanka (for lipamanka's semantic space dictionary).
Please consider archiving a source with the Wayback Machine or archive.is. This is especially necessary for Discord uploads; unarchived links will start to expire so that the files can only be accessed through Discord.
You can add a JavaScript bookmarklet to quickly archive a webpage to the Wayback Machine. Create a bookmark and set this as the "URL":
javascript:void(location.href='https://web.archive.org/save/'+location.href);
Then, whenever you press the bookmarklet, a snapshot of the currently viewed webpage will be saved.
Notice templates
Several notice templates 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:
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!