Editing Guide

General Editing Guide

Adhere to the categories

Read the descriptions of the six major categories on the homepage. In almost all cases a page needs to fall under one of these categories. Although some special pages fall under none of them (e.g. Monocoins), and some pages fall under more than one (e.g. some of the pages in the voices category are also in the stream memes category).

Don't use images without permission

Everything on this website needs to be at least CC A-SA 3.0 (see the footer of each page for information). This is why we can't use screenshots from streams anywhere, because that would include content from games. Try to use fan art as the images for the pages, and ask for permission from the artist first. (Note: We have blanket permission from Marik Bentusi, Maddison Baek, vixit, QwuTew, Xephorix, Jelly, and epheoko).

Help out with missing info

(Still need to decide on a system for marking pages as incomplete, but check the Meta category for categories and pages that deal with editing issues.)

Prioritize Using Official References

When possible, link to full YouTube VoDs on Joe's second channel, rather than individual highlight videos. If the VoD of the stream you need to reference isn't on his second channel, then find a re-upload of it from the stream index, from either another YouTube channel or from Nodjatube. This is so that it's easy for someone who's browsing the website to see as much of the context surrounding each reference as they want to, see which stream it's from, and maybe even watch the whole thing.

More Complex Pages

See Editing_Guide/Patterns for more complex ways to deal with things on pages. If you have to do something non-obvious to set up a page, add a section there explaining how you did it.

Basics of Using MediaWiki

Creating a Page

To create a page that doesn't exist, type the page title into the search bar or click a red link to it. You will then be prompted to create the page if it doesn't exist.

Every page needs its appropriate categories. You can either use the horizontal lines menu to add them, or go into the source editor and type [[Category:Example]]. Many templates automatically add categories.

Using Templates

The 'insert template' button is a useful tool that takes some getting used to. Some common templates are YTCite, JoeYT2Cite, EmotePage, GamePage, ChanInfobox, Spoiler, and Person. To see a full list, go here. For almost anything complicated you want to do, there either already is a template for it, or there should be. The person currently in charge of templates is Latty. Please contact him for questions related to templates.

Citations and Images

To have an image display, you must first upload it to the wiki using the tool on the right sidebar. The syntax for an example image in a ChanInfobox would be [[File:Example.png|frameless]].

Emotes are much simpler, as you just need to type the emote name, such as jphSad, and it will show up.

When citing a Youtube video, the Video Code is simply the letters and numbers. For example, dQw4w9WgXcQ. There's a minor visual glitch that occurs when the title contains the character ]. This is very common in videos from Falco. To fix it, surround it like this: <nowiki>Example Title with [Brackets]</nowiki>. There is currently no way to cite Nodjatube videos.

The list of references will be auto-generated at the bottom of the page, but you can also use the Insert drop-down to add it manually. You will need to add the word "References" in Sub-Heading 3 (Ctrl+5) just above the references list manually.

Common Mistakes

When editing pages, please check a couple of things. Any time a person is referenced, use the Person template rather than just typing their name. Like Wikipedia, we've decided to use American English spellings as our standard, so if you notice any British spellings, please change them. Similarly, citations should be before punctuation, not after.

If you're not sure how to handle something, post a message in the Wikipedia Possums Discord.