Content Guidelines
General Guidelines
- Content must abide by the Atelier community rules as posted in the Discord server and mirrored here.
- Content must be written in English, and must be as grammatically correct as possible.
- Content must be kept reasonably legible.
- Break apart long sentences and paragraphs to make them easier to digest.
- Make use of formatting, headers, and similar formatting.
- Content must not abuse formatting.
- Limit bold, italics, underlines, text colors, highlights, and similar formatting to only where applicable and beneficial to the content.
- Limit bold, italics, underlines, text colors, highlights, and similar formatting to only where applicable and beneficial to the content.
- Sources should be accessible and meaningful.
- Pick meaningful sources of reasonable trustworthiness and applicability to the topic.
- Avoid sources which are controversial, would lead to conflict, would endanger the reader if visited, or would otherwise go against the Atelier community rules and guidelines.
- Cite sources in APA format. All citations should be listed at the end of a page under a section headered "Citations" in large or medium header size.
Public Wiki Sections
This is applicable to all wiki shelves not under the User-Authored Content shelf.
- Keep content objective, third-party, and "wiki-style".
- The style of writing should fit along what would be expected out of a wiki, information resource, technical documentation, or encyclopedia.
- Use of first-person speech and conversational forms is prohibited aside from as excerpts.
- When original works or research are involved, place the content first under your own User-Authored Content book or in your own articles elsewhere, then cite it as the reference.
- Place books, chapters, and pages under reasonable organization. Avoid duplication.
- Verify correctness of content as much as possible.
- Guides and tutorials may also be placed into the public wiki sections.
- These guides should be very unaffiliated in terms of designer, brand, or methodology; for very author-specific guides, please place them under the User-Authored Content section.
- Please use the Discord to discuss regarding the content and possible edits when applicable.
User-Authored Content Section
This is applicable to the User-Authored Content shelf.
- Users are allocated one user-specific book upon request, in which they can write less wiki-like and more personal content.
- For requesting a user book, please ping a wiki manager or ai03 in Discord.
- Types of content recommended for these sections are primary/original works and research, single-author guides and tutorials, development logs and stories, and similar content which are heavily user-bound and would not fit well within the structure of a typical wiki.
- Pages in this section may endorse specific designers, designs, brands, methodologies, and similar as long as they are of reasonable scope and applicable to the page.
- For general knowledge which would fit well within a wiki, please contribute to the public wiki sections instead.
- This section is not as rigid as the rest of the wiki in terms of tone, writing styles, or amount of error-checking done; for that reason, please copy-paste the following block onto the top of all pages under the User-Authored Content shelf.