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Creating a New Page
To create a new page simply add the name of the new page to the end of the url
http://wiki.d-addicts.com
For example if you wanted to create a page called "New Drama" then simply enter in the url in your browser
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/New Drama
and an empty page will show up. Then simply click on the edit tab at the top to put contents on that page.
Don't forget to tag that page with a category as well (see the individual categories e.g. Category:JDrama, Category:KDrama etc on how to do that).
You can also create a new page by clicking on those red links which are just references to pages that don't exist (yet).
Advise: Before creating a new page it is recommended to check if it doesn't already exist under a different name. The search function is very helpful here to avoid duplicate pages.
Add New Page to a Category
For example, you just type in the url
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Mr Ruroshin
and assuming that entry doesn't already exist then a blank page will be presented. You can then hit the edit tab to add content for Mr Ruroshin's entry. Before saving the page you think he's a Japanese Actor so you would add at the end of the entry this:
[[Category:JActor]]
By adding that tag Mr Ruroshin's entry will be automatically listed in the Category for JActor.
An entry can be part of many Categories so you can tag it with more than one Category. For example an artist may be an actress as well as a singer.
Adding Images
Note: Some parts of this section are obsolete. It is recommended to refer to the following two links instead:
Sizing of Images
The pixel size of an image's width should be kept the same or smaller than the original. Width of images adjusted to a size larger than the actual size become distorted, producing the "jaggies" effect; i.e. the image just doesn't look good. To demonstrate, here are two images. Image to the left uses its original size of 160-pixels, while the image to right is oversized at 180-pixels:
[[Image:Kiroro.JPG|frame|160px]] [[Image:Kiroro.JPG|thumb|180px]]
File:Kiroro.JPG 160px |
File:Kiroro.JPG 180px |
If you are using the actual width size of the image, using the frame option is better than using the thumb option. Also, using the frame option along with an oversized pixel width setting will void the pixel width setting and instead retain the actual width size of the image.
Positioning Images
If you wish to add a series of images to the right hand side of an entry then please enclose them in a div tag with an inline style.
<div style="display:inline; width:220px; float:right;">
The width value should be 20px more than the largest image in your set. The reason for using the div tag is to avoid jumbling up of the edit links for segments.
Example images without a div tag
[[Image:SlowDance222.jpg|thumb|350px|Slow Dance]] [[Image:Slowdancechart.jpg|thumb|350px|Relationchip Chart - click to enlarge]] [[Image:SlowDance1.jpg|thumb|350px|Slow Dance]]
Example images using the div tag
<div style="display:inline; width:370px; float:right;"> [[Image:SlowDance222.jpg|thumb|350px|Slow Dance]] [[Image:Slowdancechart.jpg|thumb|350px|Relationchip Chart - click to enlarge]] [[Image:SlowDance1.jpg|thumb|350px|Slow Dance]] </div>
Deleting Content
Users can only add and change content. Only the admins can delete information from the wiki. (Technically nothing gets really deleted but is moved to an archive from where it can be undeleted.)
If you want content (e.g. a page or an image) deleted from the wiki you can add a Request for deletion. The staff will decide then what to do. Possible actions could be:
- keep (an empty or incomplete page may be kept and marked as a stub)
- delete (e.g. bogus, random, or vandal pages; redundant, corrupt, conflicting or otherwise unwanted images)
- redirect/merge of a duplicate page to/with an already existing page.
Note: Please don't issue a request for deletion if it is obvious that the page will be kept or redirected. You can mark pages as a stub and redirect pages yourself.
I suggest to read wikipedia's deletion policy to get an idea how big wikis handle this.
Report Vandalism
If you spot some serious vandalism on our wiki then please inform our admins through the Vandalism Watch List. Please don't try to fix the page yourself but rather report the culprit instead. The admins have better means to deal with vadalism, like
- blocking/banning vandals
- rollback/revert changes
- delete bogus pages
Use Standards
When adding/editing content please use International standards where applicable. Useful standards: