StyleGuide, #4

Things to keep in mind as you help grow this wiki...

General recommendations

1. Article titles should be PascalCase.
2. Use MarkUp (eg, MarkDown) appropriately
3. Use the GikoBooru or imgur as image hosts -- google image search thumbnails and "social media" links will expire, which is bad form.

Article modes

Wiki articles don't always have to be composed like articles you'd see on Wikipedia or Wikia wikis. There are several conventions that can inform the way an article is written:

1. First is "document mode", which we're all already familiar with; articles are generally written in the third person and are freely revised to improve format. They are considered to be owned by the community (generally, AnonyMous authors).
2. There is also "thread mode," as featured on WikiWiki; this is similar to talk pages like on Wikipedia. Write some text as if you're making a post on a forum, then "sign" the post. The next person to respond draws a line under your post, writes their post, then similarly signs it. Unlike in document mode, it is better to avoid editing others' posts as best as you can help it.
3. There is "dialectic mode", which is a dialog between two anonymous authors, one in plaintext, the other italicized. This is similar to thread mode but only two points of view are represented -- with any number of writers behind them; dialectic mode may even feature the two sides written by the same author, for RhetoricalPurposes
4. Finally, there is "everything2" mode which is a bit like a mix of document and thread modes. For a given topic, multiple articles authored by individuals co-exist. Instead of rewriting another author's article when you disagree with its tone, direction, or content, write a new article yourself under the existing page and sign it.

Thread mode can exist within document mode pages when appropriate, but otherwise, the different kinds of formats don't really mix together well.

(Examples to come later!)