Contributor Guidelines

These guidelines are provided to make contributors aware of the available facilities and to encourage contributors to maintain a reasonably consistent style throughout the wiki. Maintaining a consistent approach to organising and presenting information helps everyone, contributors and readers alike.

Organisation
Like any MediaWiki site this one uses categories to partition information into broad categories. Categories are used for major taxonomic organisation of information. For other semantic information Semantic MediaWiki properties should be used.

This system allows information to be assembled, provided, and searched using more sophisticated semantic web tools.

Article style
In this section some stylistic rules are given.

Headings

 * Page names
 * These should always be capitalised.


 * So, 'Editing Contributor Guidelines' not 'Editing contributor guidelines'.


 * Section headings
 * These should have sentence capitalisation; an initial capital but otherwise lower case initial letters unless the word is a proper noun or an acronym or abreviation that is normally capitalised.
 * Do not end section titles with any punctuation.


 * So, 'Section headings' not 'Section Headings'.


 * Generally, sections within articles should use level 2 headings and above (reserving level 1 headings for page headings).

Tables
Generally tables should be borderless, using only whitespace to visually organise data. Borders, especially inter-cell borders tend to separate information too much, leading to tables that are more difficult to read.

Where wide tables are being presented, shade alternate rows with a pale grey to assist readers in following each row.

Namespaces
Most articles should go in the default namespace (no namespace prefix required). There are some custom namespaces that are to be used for specific types of article.

Documentation
The   namespace is reserved for longer documentation. Documents are broken into multiple pages and are generally organised into sub-page structures to create an overall document structure.

Tutorials
The   namespace is reserved (unsurprisingly) for tutorial articles.