What you can do to help
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This page contains suggestions for what you can do to help with the Sagatafl design and documentation project. | This page contains suggestions for what you can do to help with the Sagatafl design and documentation project. | ||
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| + | If you see errors of grammar, spelling, punctuation or similar, or errors of layout, feel free to fix them. As long as you are not changing the meaning of the content of the article ''at all'', please mark your edit as "minor". | ||
== Participate on article Discussion pages== | == Participate on article Discussion pages== | ||
Revision as of 14:32, 11 July 2010
This page contains suggestions for what you can do to help with the Sagatafl design and documentation project.
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Fix obvious errors
If you see errors of grammar, spelling, punctuation or similar, or errors of layout, feel free to fix them. As long as you are not changing the meaning of the content of the article at all, please mark your edit as "minor".
Participate on article Discussion pages
You can go to the Discussion page for any article, and voice your concerns, e.g. about rules that are unclear (ambiguous, open to interpretation, more GM-dependent than they have to be), or give suggestions for how the text or the rules in the article can be improved, e.g. made more flexible, or made more fudge-light.
Turn words into internal links
This isn't so much a wiki, as it is a hypertext that happens to use wiki software to be presented and modified (displayed and edited). Much of the point is that the reader of this hypertext should be able to get from any article to any other article with as few clicks as possible, and the more related two articles are, in terms of subject matter, the fewer clicks should be required.
Therefore you can use the "edit" tab to turn words into internal links, so that the reader can click on those links to get to the articles defining and elaborating on what those words mean. Don't worry about creating links for articles that don't exist yet (but do check that there isn't already an article defining the term that is spelled slightly differently), and feel free to turn the same word into external links multiple times in the same article. It is a bother for the user to have to scroll up and down, in order to find a clickable instance of a word.
Add categories to pages
First read the previous section.
All done? Okay. Another way to empower the reader to get from any article to any one other article, as fast as possible, is by adding categories to articles. This is very simple, and here I'll explain how it is done:
(Actually I've forgotten how to add categoris, so I'll have to find an explanation and then paraphrase it here.)
Don't worry about adding nonexistent categories, as long as you've made sure that there isn't already another existing category, perhaps spelled slightly differently, that does the job. If you do invent a new category (which is perfectly okay), you can search through the other articles in this wiki, and add all the relevant ones to your new category.
Remember: It's about speed, and reader friendliness.
