Editing Guidelines
From Ignition Northwest Wiki
The Ignition Northwest wiki serves not as an encylopedia, but as a document archive, which requires a different set of rules for editing. Where a true wiki is used to define nouns, categories, or ideas, we are instead using it like a filing system, so that it more closely resembles the file-and-folder hierarchy of your desktop. It only takes a few key guidelines to maintain a navigable archive.
For example, consider the word "proposal". On Wikipedia, you might create an article called "proposal". It might offer several definitions for the abstract concept of "proposal". But for our purposes, the word "proposal" is ambiguous. We need to refer to a specific proposal, in such a way that it can be disambiguated from all other proposals on the wiki. I.e. 2006 Seattle Memorial Temple Grant - Proposal.
Dates
We use a date format of yy.mm.dd. For example, March 18th, 2008 would be expressed as 08.03.19. This format is easier to search and sort by date than is the standard American mm/dd/yy.
Guideline #1
Create new articles with descriptive names that include a date, some sort of context, and a description of the document's content. Here are some examples:
Navigation is another major difference between our archive and an encyclopedic wiki. Where a Wikipedia user might browse laterally from concept to related concept, our users are searching for specific information, starting at the main page and drilling logically through hierarchical categories to find what they need. In order for our wiki to work, clear hierarchy must be maintained.
Guideline #2
Help keep our navigation simple by promoting article links to category pages, rather than burying article links inside other articles. Don't create nested category pages that only contain an article or two, if those articles can be promoted to a top level category page. Here is a good housekeeping example:
