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Etiquette - How to do all this crap

 

Etiquette - How to do all this crap Basic Rules of Conduct Basic Common Courtesies: Basic Common Sense and Guidelines for Posting and Editing: Basic Formatting Editing Assistance Future of this Wiki When there's lots of data When we upgrade to Platinum

 

Basic Rules of Conduct

 

Basic Common Courtesies:

 

• Do not flame, ridicule, or otherwise insult another user on this wiki. This includes any and all racist/sexist/hate sentiments.

 

• Do not trash a movie, actor, director, etc for any reason. Yes, there are bad ones, but not everyone agrees on which ones are bad. This is to be a compilation of every movie, not just the good ones.

 

• We want this site to be as family friendly as possible, so keep your posts as clean as possible.

 

• Remember to show other users and users' works respect. Try to incorporate other people's research with your own and start discussions when necessary.

 

Basic Common Sense and Guidelines for Posting and Editing:

 

• Before you enter a new event, check to make sure your event is not already listed under another date, either more or less precise than the one you found.

 

• When you enter a new event in the timeline be sure to enter it with the proper formatting.

 

• Example:

   |April 13, 1970|Fifty-five hours after liftoff, an oxygen tank in the Apollo 13 service module explodes|<a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0112384/" target="_blank">Apollo 13</a> (1995)| 

 

• While you can simply create a link with the movie title shown using [url|Title] , we like to use the HTML whenever we are including a link that leaves this wiki because it allows us to open the new page in a new browser window.

 

• All movies should be linked to their IMDb profile from imdb.com

 

• If more than one movie by that name exists, be sure to put the production year after the name in order to avoid discrepancies between versions. If the movie has a subtitle you do not have to include it, but be sure to list the year if another movie exists with that name or could be confused for yours.

 

• If the title of the movie is in a language other than English, please put a translation after the title in parentheses.

 

• Be sure to narrow down the event to as exact a date as possible.

 

• Use clues from the movie to determine an appropriate date (newspapers, TV shows, etc). If not even a year is given and if all else fails use the date the movie was produced if that year seems appropriate for the period of the movie. These clues should be noted in a details page about that event.

 

• A details page about a specific event from a movie should be named by date, movie title, and event number. (Ex: 145 million BC-The Land Before Time-1)

 

• If only a season is really known, use the first month for that season to identify the time. Use December for winter, March for spring, June for summer, and September for fall for northern hemisphere movies. If the movie takes place in the southern hemisphere, use December for summer, March for fall, June for winter, and September for spring.

 

• "Unknown future" can be used for movies set quite a few years in the future when no date is given. These events should be listed in the AD 2000 and Beyond Timeline's "Unknown future" section.

 

• When entering your movie event(s) be sure to put your movie where it belongs in the following order:

 

• Year only events

• Month and year events

• Month, date, and year events

 

• Example:

Date	Event	Movie with link
1919	A double-fault final-play elimination occured in a Dodgeball tournament in Helsinki	Dodgeball (2004)
October, 1919	The Chicago White Sox accept bribes from gamblers to throw the World Series	Eight Men Out
October 10, 1919	Harold Abrahams meets Aubrey Montague at their first day at Caius College	Chariots of Fire
December, 1919	Harry Bailey drowns while sledding, or is saved by his brother George, depending on the timeline	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

 

• Be sure to see if your movie is already listed, and, if possible, place it in the proper order before or after other events from that movie. Exception: If your event has a date more precise than any other events from the movie, place your movie in the proper order by date.

 

• Before correcting a typo, a mistake, or an inconsistency, be sure to check and see if it was meant so because of a movie difference or because of some element to the movie.

 

• If your movie involves an event already listed in the database from a different movie, put it in. Do not change the other event because dates or details conflict with your information, after all movies often disagree about when, where, etc events happened, think of all the Dracula movies.

 

• Do not ask for help finding or post information on where to obtain illegal copies of movies and parts of movies.

 

• If you notice a minor inconsistency, go ahead and fix it.

 

• If you notice a major inconsistency between a listed event or details of that event and the event as it happened in the movie, add to the Discussions section or create one, and add a note in the Disputed Pages under the appropriate heading (Event, Character, Event Details, etc.). This should provide the original author the chance to provide evidence for his/her description and the chance to check for possible other reasons for inconsistencies, e.g. DVD alternate endings, etc.

 

• Remember that this is a wiki, so information is edited, changed, corrected, and updated frequently and by many people. No one really owns any of the information in this wiki, but it is still very rude to change another person's posted event or details page dramatically without a discussion.

 

• If you create a new event details page for a movie that already has an event details page for your event's date, but your event came first, just list your event with the next number.

 

• If you start to edit a page, but change your mind be sure to click "Cancel" so other people will be able to edit the page. Until you do this you will have a lock on the page, preventing anyone else from making changes to the page.

 

• If you create a new details page, be sure to include links within the text to other pages within the wiki. You should also always include the following links at the top of the page.

 

•  |[FrontPage|<- Return to the Front Page]| This page viewed <views> time(s)|[Timeline|Head to the Timeline ->]|
  |Or head to a <random>.| 

 

• If you are submitting a new details page on a major event or era that spans multiple events posts (the American Revolutionary War, Feudal Japan, etc.) or a page on a particular person/character that spans multiple movies (Jesus, Anakin Skywalker, etc.), do a search for events and other pages where the person may be mentioned in order to add a link to and from this new details page.

 

• Please keep images only on details pages in order to keep things consistent throughout the timeline.

 

• Do Not post any pornographic or explicit images. As mentioned before, this wiki is intended to be family friendly.

 

• Please put a link at the bottom of the page containing an image showing where the image was found.

 

• Keep image use from the movies to a minimum in order to comply with fair use. An image of Anakin Skywalker as a child, Jedi, and Darth Vader on a page explaining the major events and overall story behind Anakin are fine, but 5 images of each is too much. Use as few images as possible to give a glimpse of what you are explaining.

 

• Once again, do not post any movie clips.

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Basic Formatting

 

1. Lists
1. Use an * (asterisk) followed by a space at the beginning of a line for an unordered list.
2. Use # (the pound sign) followed by a space at the beginning of a line for a numbered list.
3. Be sure to hit enter (return) only once after the line in an ordered list to keep the numbers/letters in sequential order.
4. For nested lists double the * (asterisk) or the # (pound sign) at the beginning of the line.
5. You cannot nest lists more than three deep. (e.g. The lowest level will have either three asterisks or three pound signs)
6. If things seem to not be working properly in your list, make sure there is a single space between the asterisk(s) or pound sign(s) and your first word in that line.
2. Character Formatting
1. Bold: Put two asterisks directly before and after the word (**bold** yields bold).
2. Italic: Put two apostrophes (') before and after the text (''italic'' yields italic).
3. Underlined: Use two underscore (_) before and after the text to underline (__underline__ yields __underline__).
4. Strikethrough: Type in space then hyphen before the word and hyphen space after the word to strikethrough ( -Strikethrough- yields Strikethrough ).
3. Sections
1. One ! (exclamation point) at the beginning of a line marks that line as a huge headline (like "Etiquette" above).
2. Two exclamation points (!!) make a big headline (like "Basic Formatting" just above).
3. Three or more exclamation points (up to 6) make successively smaller headlines.
4. Make sure the exclamation point(s) is directly in front of the word (no spaces).
4. Special Formatting and Commands
1. A single | (vertical bar) before and after a word or section puts a box around it. (Ex: |a box| yields a box).
2. 3 hyphens (-) on a line by themselves creates a horizontal rule (dividing line).
3. If you need to use characters that the wiki would normally translate into code (for example square brackets), please see this section in AdvancedWikiStyle.
4. The view count for a page is displayed using the command <view>. In this wiki, this command should be in the center of the top navigation bar.
5. Use <random> under the main navigation bar in each page in this wiki to provide a special link to a random page within the wiki.
6. If you have something special you would like to put in a page you are working on and you know the HTML code to produce this effect, then go ahead. The wiki accepts HTML coding. We do want to keep HTML coding to a minimum and reserved especially for details pages, in order to keep the wiki fairly simple for others to use and update, not to mention to keep the pages in the same basic format for consistency's sake.
5. Links
1. Two capital letters in a word with lowercase letters in between (a.k.a. camel case) will automatically be turned into a link to either a new or previously created page. (Ex: SandBox links to the SandBox, while sandBox or Sandbox do not)
2. If you use camel case in a line, but a page by that name does not yet exist, the link will have a dashed underline. If a page already exists by that name the line will be solid. (Ex: FunnyWord does not link to a current page while SandBox does).
3. A ~ (tilda) can be placed before a word that uses camel case that should not be a link. (Ex: McDaniel should not be linked so you should type it ~McDaniel)
4. Another easy way to create a link is to put a set of square brackets ([ ]) around the word(s) or URL you wish to link to. To make a URL link prettier and more explanatory you can put a vertical bar (|) after the URL and before the text you want to use to describe the link. (Ex: [http://imdb.com|IMDb] yields IMDb)
5. You can use <top> to link to the top of the page.
6. To force a link to open in a new page, especially a link to another website use the HTML <a href="url" target="_blank>descriptive text</a>.
6. Pictures
1. To have a picture appear on a page in the wiki add a link to the picture in brackets. Ex: [http://lifeisamovie.pbwiki.com/f/movielife.gif] yields

   

2. A picture can be a link by using either [http://this.url.com|<img src="thisPicture.jpg">] or <a href="http://this.url.com"><img src="thisPicture.jpg"></a>
7. Uploaded Files
1. Uploaded files can be linked to the same way any other file would be linked to as long as you have the files location (URL). (See the section above for an example of an image in this wiki's file that was linked.) To see what files have been uploaded to this wiki, select the files link at the top or bottom of the page. You can right-click on the file to copy its URL from that page.
2. You can upload a file, such as a highly used image, to the wiki through the files page. Until we upgrade the wiki we only have space for 10 MB worth of files, so linking to the file from another site is preferable for the time being.
8. Table of Contents
1. To create a table of contents that will provide an in page link to all sections starting with a header labeled with (!, !!, and !!!) insert <toc> where you want the table to appear (such as the top of this page).
2. A table of contents can be created that only shows the largest (!) headers by using the <toc!> command.
3. The <toc!!> command will create a table of contents that shows only the first two headline sizes (!, !!).
9. Tables
1. Each row of a table is made by beginning and ending a line with a | (vertical bar).
2. Cells within each row are divided by an additional vertical bar.
3. You only need to hit enter (return) once after a table row to create a new table row on the next line if the two rows belong in the same table.

Ex:

|cell 1|cell2| (enter) |cell 3|cell 4| will produce

 

cell 1	cell 2
cell 3	cell 4

 

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Editing Assistance

 

Anytime you need editing assistance, be sure to check through this page and look through some of the links provided below, because many of your questions could already be answered. The search box at the top of the page can often help you find that information more quickly. If you still can't find what you are looking for, or if something just doesn't seem to be working properly post a new Help Wanted message on the Help Wanted page. See the list below for links to example pages for standard formatting as well as links for tips, tricks, and more advanced information for working in a wiki.

 

• 2 easy ways - Creating a new page
• If you have any other questions about wiki commands and more advanced style options, visit AdvancedWikiStyle or PBwikiTips.
• Want to play around and get the hang of working with wiki commands or test a new command before you use it in the main wiki? Visit the SandBox
• See the guidelines above for the basic format of an event to be placed in the timeline.
• See this page for an example of how to format a details page.

 

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Future of this Wiki

 

When there's lots of data

 

• Wiki upgrade for more features and space
• Top contributors to receive moderator status
• Separate database storage of certain information for more advanced tools and displays
• Special forum for wiki discussions on DailyWheel.com.
• Expansion to other possible timelines

 

When we upgrade to Platinum

 

• More space (5,000 MB) for uploaded files
• New possible color schemes, as well as customizable CSS for a look unique to this wiki
• More advanced back-up capabilities
• No ads!