User:Foo2

Since Ninjamask and I (Foo2) have been cleaning up the wiki pages, trying to use practical templates to make the look more consistent, I will be putting together a list of tips (as reminder to myself), but quite possibly also useful for the wikipedians out there as well.

Todo

• Add link to the templates...
• Mention how to make the most of the link related templates with real-world examples.
• Tips & Ideas on "nice" layout.
• ...

Using templates to make links easier to manage

{{short}} - AniDB short links

http://anidb.info/p13        ->   {{short|p13}}
http://anidb.net/post59971   ->   {{short|post59971}}

{{AniDBLink}} - AniDB links

[http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=userpage user page] 
  ->  {{AniDBLink|userpage|user page}}
http://www.anidb.net/cgi-bin/animedb.pl?show=file&size=247822336&hash=7762
  ->  {{AniDBLink|file|size|247822336|hash|7762}}

Wikipedia references

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page How to edit a page]  ->  
[[Wikipedia:How to edit a page|How to edit a page]]

{{OldThreadLink}} - Old Forum links

http://forum.anidb.net/viewtopic.php?t=5653     -> {{OldThreadLink|5653}}
http://www.anidb.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=933  -> {{OldThreadLink|933}}

{{t}} - Links to the Bugtracker

[http://tracker.anidb.info/view.php?id=498 convert to html]  ->  {{t|498|convert to html}}

... more to come ...

Consistent Capitalization of Names

Where possible spell these terms exactly as shown:

• AniDB
• MyList
• ...

Avoiding HTML, when Wiki Code exists

The wiki very much supports HTML tags in the textareas, but since it comes with it's own set of convenient "tags", it is a good idea to prefer using the latter, if possible:

<b>...</b>   ->   '''...'''
<i>...</i>   ->   ''...''

...

--- everything is still very much todo ---