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Welcome, aspiring editor! This work-in-progress guide will hopefully help you get your bearings on the wiki. |
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==Technical== |
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===Moderation=== |
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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> |
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==Policy== |
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===Be bold=== |
===Be bold=== |
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===Be messy=== |
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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. Heck, this very guide started as barely more than an outline! |
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.<ref group="lower-alpha">Heck, this very guide started as barely more than an outline!</ref> |
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===Source what you can=== |
===Source what you can=== |
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Resources with open submissions, such as Tatoeba and Glosbe, often attract overconfident beginners and so should |
Resources with open submissions, such as Tatoeba and Glosbe, often attract overconfident beginners and so should be treated with care. |
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===Trans rights=== |
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===Indentation=== |
===Indentation=== |
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Indent with [[Template:Indent]]. |
Indent with [[Template:Indent]]. |
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{{Indent|Using the <code>:</code> (description detail) syntax without a preceding <code>;</code> (description term) produces invalid HTML, which is not accessible.}} |
{{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]].}} |
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==Notes== |
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Revision as of 09:20, 14 August 2023
Welcome, aspiring editor! This work-in-progress guide will hopefully help you get your bearings on the wiki.
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.
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]
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 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 variables with <var>variable name</var>.
For other uses, like the titles of longform works, 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.
{{tp|tok}} outputs tok.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.Indentation
Indent with Template:Indent.
: (description detail) syntax without a preceding ; (description term) produces invalid HTML, which is not accessible.