Style Guide

From Library Instruction Wiki

we got no style

but, we can pretend...

What is a style guide?

In this context, the Style Guide is just that, a guide. These are not hard and fast rules, and if a guideline don't make sense in a given situation, then it can be adapted. Some common practices and structures can help make this a more useful resource for everyone. When you are adding or editing the wiki, these guidelines can help you make what you do more useful for the whole community.

If any or all of this is a barrier to adding something, don't worry about it. Put it up there and someone else will probably follow along behind you and apply the style of this wiki to your work.

Finally, if you think of something you think you make the wiki easier to use or contribute to, use the "Discussion" tab above to see how others feel about it. The guidelines should reflect the ideas of the whole community; this page is as editable as any other.

Structural Style

This section outlines guidelines for the Library Instruction wiki as a whole.

• What kind of resource is this? -- Explaining the headings on the Library Instruction Resources page.
• Where to put what -- A "reverse directory" of the wiki.
• Page naming conventions -- how to name your Instructionwiki pages.
• Categories -- working with the MediaWiki categories feature.

Formatting Style

These suggestions apply to laying out individual resource pages, glossary entries or other contributions.

• Resource Template -- starting points and formatting guidelines for new additions to the Instruction Resources pages.
• Internal links
• External links
• Headers - dividing an article into sections
• Avoiding HTML
• Main Page guidelines - how to add links to the Main Page

Other style guidelines

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Note: the basic format for this Style Guide, and much of the text was adapted from the Wikitravel (http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page) Manual of Style