Wiki Rules

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Revision as of 02:31, 16 August 2009

Welcome to the very addicting world of Mizahar's Wiki and the Wiki Rules that all users are required to follow. The Mizahar Wiki is an ever evolving organic work of literrary references containing the essence of Mizahar's game world. Included in its contents are all the ideas we utilize when playing Mizahar as a Writer's RPG. The people, places, concepts and things of Mizahar are all represented within. And as more stories are told, more concepts are expanded upon. Because the Founders and Storytellers cannot possibly add everything necessary (though they try!) to this knowledge repository, help is often welcomed and encouraged. Below are a few simple rules to remember when working within the Wiki. If you have any questions, feel free to post a Help Desk Ticket.

Accounts

• Anyone registered on Mizahar may create a wiki account.
• Wiki Account names do not have to match character names played in the forums.
• Account names must follow the naming policy outlined in the Rules, meaning no religious or copy written names.

Editing for Grammar, Spelling, and Punctuation

• Editing pages for grammar punctuation and spelling is perfectly acceptable and will get you hugs, virtual cookies, and wiki hero status with the admins.
• Feel free to edit ANY pages for this type of content alteration.
• Personal User pages or subpages pages should not be edited by anyone but the user they belong too.

Developing Existing Material Further

• It's perfectly acceptable to add to the existing material in the wiki by transferring over material that has been presented in the forums by Storytellers and Admins. This means that if there's a location posted in the roleplaying forum by an approved Storyteller or Admin, wiki users can feel free to transfer that material to the Wiki adding to the body of knowledge therein.
• Please remember to add any Category Tags that are aplicable down at the bottom of the post. For example, a Syliras Location should have a [[Category:Syliras]] tag added to it. NPCs should have a [[Category:NPC]] tag added to them. Monsters also have their own tags.
• Developing skills already listed in the wiki is strongly encouraged! This is especially true of those articles noted as stubs. Please outline the skill completely in the World Development Forum and get approval for your article before you update the wiki itself.

Developing Completely New Material

• Please do not add any NEW material to the wiki until your ideas have been posted in the World Development Forum and approved by the Admins. After approval, a user is more than welcome to submit their work at any time.
• Users are encouraged to develop any material they feel is appropriate to the game so long as it is completely original. The World Development Forum is the appropriate place to start a discussion or post an idea for feedback.

Changing Existing Material

• Unless you are an admin or have spoken with the original author of the material personally, don't change existing material that other users have submitted to the wiki. This is considered bad behavior. The only exception to this if if the previously submitted material is somehow in violation of Mizahar's Rules. Violations might include submission of copy written material, plagiarism, offensive material, etc. See the complete listing of Rules unless your unsure.
• The Founders reserve the right to change any material within the wiki at any time.

Submitting Character/Account Specific Material

• Please limit wiki submission to things of general interest. However, character submissions can be made using the wiki User: system. Each Wiki account has the ability to create a User page. For example, Gossamer has a complete User Bio listed under User:Gossamer. Each Wiki user can feel free to post a bio under their User Page. Please remember to use User: rather than just submit under your user name.
• Talk pages can then be added to your user pages. Talk pages can be used to list 'todo' lists, keep user notes or even post character residences. Talk pages are searchable just like normal wiki pages, but this keeps the official game lore data separated out from user contributions. Talk pages can be used to post IC things as well - agendas, notes, etc. (ie. User_talk:Gossamer/ToDoList = Gossamer's ToDoList in Development)
• Mizahar also has a specific forum in the Resources section that is called Character Journals. PCs should feel free to keep IC notes and information there as well in their Character Sheets. If information should be normally found in Character Journals or Character Sheets.... they should fall into User talk pages within the wiki.
• Character owned businesses may be placed into the wiki normally as locations.

Other Rules

• Wiki Users must follow the game Rules of Mizahar.
• Don't be afraid to use the talk pages attached to each page to note your changes and please sign using the 'signature' button which will add your name, date and time.
• Any questions, please feel free to talk to an Admin (one often lurks in Chat) or you can post a Help Desk Ticket on the boards.