This style guide ensure consistency on the wiki. Use it wherever possible to keep the same standards across pages. As a general recommendation, take existing similar articles as example.
Article titles
Generally speaking, follow Wikipedia style for titles.
- Capitalize the initial letter not every word. The URL should contain
_as word split. - For tools documentation use the full name of the tool without the brand. Capitalize the same way, for example : imagePROGRAF PRO-1000. Mention the brand in the Lead section.
Article Layout
An article may follow this general layout. Use it if it is relevant to your subject. Inspired by Wikipedia Manual of Style Layout, refer to it for more.
- Lead section also called introduction is a short description before the first title
- Content. Main content of the article organized with headings.
- Appendices
- Works (for biography only)
- See also. Internal links to related or comparable articles not already linked in the Content section.
- Notes and references may contain some or all of the following: Notes (= comment footnotes), References (as: author year, page), Bibliography (organized full citation of works used as references or general references).
- Further reading. Publications were not used above or in External links that would help people learn more about the subject.
- External links to relevant websites not linked anywhere above, with short description. Can be merged with Further reading depending on the content.
- End matter
- Categories. Include the article in one or more category if needed.
- Short description. Use the Template:Short description.
Lead section
- Keep it short, define the subject within 250 characters.
- Mention the subject as early as possible and make it bold.
Files & images
Try to upload files with reduced file size :
- Reduce the size (smartphones photographies can be huge like 4000*3000px).
- Compress the file.
- Use optimized formats like webp.