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== Wiki Policies and guidelines ==
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118Wiki is a collaborative project of the UFOP: StarBase 118 Star Trek RPG. The contributors to the wiki have a few common goals:
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One of the most unique and detailed pieces of lore for our community is our shared wiki. The 118Wiki is filled with detailed information on our ships histories, characters, worlds, and cultures, going back more than 10 years in our 20-year history.


# Give the members of our community a collaborative space where they can create and learn about our universe.
To ensure that this resource can continue to grow, we’d like to address everyone in the fleet and make sure that guidelines and boundaries are clear and easy to understand.  
# Be '''comprehensive''' but '''not''' redundant, meaning that we want 118Wiki to cover as MANY things as possible, but we DON'T want it to cover things already on our main website.
#* To that end, we seek not to duplicate the efforts of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia] or [http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Portal:Main Memory Alpha].


== Generally accepted policies ==
{{LCARS Section Heading|Assume Good Faith|#6699cc}}
*Avoid bias. Articles should be written from a neutral point of view, which means that articles should represent differing views on a subject fairly and sympathetically.
First and foremost, everyone should remember this basic principle of working with others online: '''assume good faith'''. We’re all working together as editors to make the best wiki for our community, and when someone makes a mistake and edits something wrongly, or in a way they shouldn’t, it’s most likely an innocent or unintentional mistake.  
*StarBase 118's wiki is an encyclopedia. The site should primarily be used for developing the encyclopedia.
*Respect other contributors. Wiki contributors come from many different countries and cultures, and have widely different views. By treating others with respect we are able to cooperate effectively in building an encyclopedia. For some guidelines, see Etiquette.
*Follow conventions. By following these conventions we are able to produce a more consistent and usable encyclopedia:


For policies on using some restricted features, see Administrators.
'''Remember to treat others as you would want to be treated, and never assume malice unless there is clear and specific evidence of malice.'''


== How are these policies enforced? ==
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"You" are an editor. We lack an editor-in-chief or a central, top-down mechanism whereby the day-to-day progress on the encyclopedia is monitored and approved. Instead, active participants monitor recent changes and make copyedits and corrections to the content and format problems they see. So the participants are both writers and editors.
In the spirit of wikis like Wikipedia, '''every member of our community is welcome and encouraged to create, edit, and modify pages on the wiki that need improvement.'''


In extreme and unusual cases, Admiral Wolf can step in to ban a user who has proven to be unusually disruptive. Wolf has also declared certain policies to be, essentially, official StarBase 118 wiki policies.
There are, however, a few important points we wish to note:


== How policy has been formulated ==
===Character Pages===
Our policy is formulated for the most part by habit and consensus. Hence, the statements on this page and pages adjoining it are intended for the most part to be descriptive of existing community norms that have developed over time. Issues are still formulated and debated on forum pages.
We recognize that personal character pages should be given special care.


=== Specific guidelines to consider ===
'''To that end, while minor changes like spelling, syntax, grammar, broken links, and category edits are welcome to character pages – by anyone, even someone who doesn’t own that character – any other changes to content should be left to the owner of the character.'''
'''In addition to the generally accepted policies listed above, the following guidelines have been suggested by various participants:'''


== General guidelines ==
Asking for permission to help make an edit, with the understanding that the page owner might say no, is also an option if you think something more than the minor edits above are in order.
* Contribute what you know or are willing to learn about (and create [[stub]]s responsibly)
* Be bold in updating pages
* Make omissions explicit


== Behavior guidelines ==
===Ship Pages===
* Avoid profanity
We also want to clarify that '''ship pages are open for ''all'' members to edit.''' Ship pages are not owned by anyone in particular, and you do not have to be a member of a ship or require permission from a ship’s command staff to edit, help clean, update, and add more information to a ship’s page.
* No personal attacks (and move personal debates to email)
* Please do not bite the newcomers
* Bans and blocks


== Content guidelines ==
However, we do want to make note that anything beyond simple fixes '''should only be attempted if you are absolutely and totally sure that what you’re adding is correct and appropriate.''' Communicating before a major edit can help develop better and stronger relationships between editors, especially those who contribute frequently to the page in question, and pave the way to brainstorming quicker and more desirable wiki edits through collaboration.
* Explain jargon
* Establish context (instead of presuming too much knowledge)
* Define and describe
* State the obvious
* Cite your sources (and use proper references)
* Warn readers about spoilers
* Make articles useful for readers (and consider the audience in writing)
* Check your facts
* Check your fiction
* Make only links relevant to the context
* Describe external links
* Don't use external links where we'll want StarBase 118 links
* Avoid peacock terms
* Avoid weasel terms
* Avoid self-references


== Style guidelines ==
{{LCARS Section Heading|Respecting Content Licenses|#6699cc}}
* Pay attention to spelling
When uploading a file to the wiki, be aware of how the work is licensed.
* Don't include copies of primary sources
* Avoid making your articles orphans
* Use other languages sparingly
* Balance parts of a page
* Avoid one-sentence paragraphs


'''Thanks for reading through the Guidelines!'''
If the file you are uploading is not a free work but you believe its use constitutes “Fair Use,” you should list the source of the original file and credit its original creator and/or copyright holder in the file summary.


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Likewise, if you are including text from a source such as Memory Alpha or Wikipedia, we have created templates (links to templates here) that you should add to the page that will automatically add links back to those sites to fulfill their license agreements.
 
{{LCARS Section Heading|The Wiki is not a Social Networking Site|#6699cc}}
While we encourage everyone to personalize their user pages, have open discussion on talk pages, and bring a sense of humor to the wiki, it’s important to remember that the wiki is not a social networking site like Facebook, Twitter, or even our forums.
 
It’s important that we not use the wiki as a place to rant, be snarky or sarcastic.
 
Edit comment summaries should be on point and written without judgement of previous contributors. For instance, if correcting a typo, simply note that “a typo was fixed” rather than chide fellow editors.
 
{{LCARS Section Heading|The Bold-Revert-Discuss Cycle|#6699cc}}
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|quote  = No editor is more welcome to make a positive contribution than you are. When in doubt, edit! Similarly, if you advance a potential edit on the article's talk page, and no response is received after a reasonable amount of time, go ahead and make your edit. Sometimes other editors are busy, or nobody is watching the article. An edit will either get the attention of interested editors, or you will simply improve the article—''either is a good outcome.''
 
Revert an edit if it is not an improvement, and it cannot be immediately fixed by refinement. Consider reverting only when necessary. BRD does not encourage reverting, but recognizes that reverts will happen. When reverting, be specific about your reasons in the edit summary and use links if needed. Look at the article's edit history and its talk page to see if a discussion has begun. If not, you may begin one.
 
Discuss the edit, and the reasons for the edit, on the article's talk page. Don't engage in back-and-forth reverts because that will probably be viewed as edit-warring.
|source = Wikipedia’s page on the [Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle BRD cycle]
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Like Wikipedia, any edits you make on the 118Wiki are open to being changed, discussed, or undone by other editors. '''Our wiki saves each and every edit to every single page''', and any edit can be undone quickly and easily. So if you find that someone has edited a page inappropriately, you can review the edits and decide if an edit needs to be reverted using the page’s “History” tab.
 
Reverting an edit without comment can be taken as aggressively dismissing another person’s contribution. Again, assume good faith. If someone made an edit, it was most likely made with well-meaning intentions, so you should consider leaving a reason for the revert in the edit summary and possibly a message on the previous editor’s talk page if you feel you would like to discuss it further. Remember that a talk page comment is an open door to continued conversation.
 
{{LCARS Section Heading|Final Considerations|#6699cc}}
It’s better for all of us to work together to edit the wiki, and revert an edit in the unlikely event that it wasn’t helpful, rather than all of us tiptoeing around the wiki or being overly cautious to the point of not contributing as much as we could.
 
The 118Wiki is a collaborative project that relies on all of us to help build and maintain it. Thanks to everyone’s hard work and the multitude of contributions, our wiki has grown to over 8,100 pages and serves as a resource to document our history and our stories, and ultimately to keep the Trek universe that we all love alive.
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