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, and Jelly).

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.

Guide to Migrating articles to MediaWiki

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

The 'insert template' button is a useful tool that takes some getting used to. The most common templates are YTCite, JoeYT2Cite, EmotePage, GamePage, and ChanInfobox. To see a full list, go here. 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.

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 glitch that occurs when the title contains the character ]. To fix it, surround it like this: <nowiki>Example Title with [Brackets]</nowiki>. There is no current way to cite Nodjatube videos. Please DM @frankcademy for advice on that.

As you migrate, please check a couple of things. We've decided to use American English spellings as our standard, so if you notice any British spellings, please change them. Also, citations should be after punctuation, not before.

Finally, make sure to add the appropriate categories (like tags, but better). You can either use the horizontal lines menu to add them, or go into the source editor and type `[[Category:Example]]`. Some templates automatically add categories, but there's no issue being redundant.

If you're not sure how to migrate some particular feature, look at other similar pages for reference. If you're still confused, feel free to DM George washingmachine (@frankcademy), xeph (@xephorix512), Latty (@lattyware), Retinas (@retinas), or mouse (@._mouse), as we've all migrated a bunch of pages already.