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Keeping an organized Wiki can be hard, this article gives a basic
overview for procedures regarding various article maintenance tasks.

Creating a page

When you create a page, please at least be somewhat clever in naming it.
More importantly, though, follow Wikipedia's capitalization
conventions;
namely, capitalize only the first letter of an article title except in
the (here rare) case of proper nouns.

Lists should be put in columns, see Organizing large
lists for help and examples.

Singular

In general, articles should follow a singular naming convention. For
example, the page that explains what a Constant is shall be called
Constant, even though it also contains a list of
Constants.

There are exceptions to this rule, such as when it makes more sense to
use plural, or for articles documenting a specific named item that is
known in its plural form, such as events.res.
In addition, a page that is only a list of items that match a familiar
concept (that is, a concept that doesn't need much explaining), such as
Free Resources, may be kept plural.

Function Documenting

Ideally every function you can use in ENIGMA will
become documented on the wiki. Each function is documented on it's own
page with the function's name as the title. For example the
documentation for the function surface_exists can be found at
http://enigma-dev.org/docs/Wiki/surface_exists. IF you want to document
an entire system or function set (like d3d, surfaces, particles etc)
then this should ideally be done on a separate page explaining the
system as a whole, preferably the main system page should be made into a
category then all the individual functions in the system can be tagged
belonging to that category.

Format

You will notice if you go onto a function page that exists in Game
Maker that the page has already been created,
this was done so using a bot using this format: Function documentation
format

Similarly for all the Action functions: Action documentation
format

These are the standard formats which you should please keep to when
documenting a function or action. All functions that have not yet been
fully written will include the {{Function:Undocumented}} template and
are all categorised to :Category:Function:Needs
documenting. Whenever
you have finished fully documenting a function then you need to remove
the {{Function:Undocumented}} template from the text content.

Article Maintenance

If you are interested in cleaning articles up, or how to properly
categorize an article for such tasks, please see article
maintenance. There you can find general
templates and categories to use on such pages.

User Groups and Discussions

When you have a large discussion with a lot of people, or would like to
save part of a discussion and archive it for future reference, you'll
need to use templates to keep everything in order. Plus it is just
easier to use templates than having to rewrite the alignment and
everything everytime. Our users also need a method of properly
identifying who they are on the wiki, and this is why we have several
templates in the article user groups and
discussions for you to use.

Suggesting New Features

We need a template called
Template:Suggest that works like
this...
{{suggest|what=feature,other,function,system|status=waiting,approved,rejected}}

Make Requests

Someone make a template called
Template:Request that works like
this...
{{request|what=deletion,merge,move|status=waiting,approved,rejected}}

Language Translated Articles

Place the langauges template at the bottom of an article for it to
display a list of all the translations that exist for that article.
Please read our language policy
for more details.

{{languages}}

To indicate an article needs translation or that it has been translated
use the 'translating' template.

Wiki Extensions

Lots of what makes our Wiki so stylish involves the cascading style
sheets and java scripts which allow us to communicate to the sites PHP
scripts. MediaWiki:Common.js and
MediaWiki:Common.css control the
common style of the Wiki.
MediaWiki:Geshi.css controls the style
of our code syntax highlighter.

See Also

• MediaWiki User Guide
• MediaWiki FAQ
• Configuration settings
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