Logic World Wiki:Contributing

This page contains resources for contributors to this wiki.

We use MediaWiki, so if you're familiar with other MediaWiki wikis you'll feel right at home. If you've never used MediaWiki before, don't worry! It's a great piece of software, and you'll figure out your way around it in no time :)

Thanks for your interest in contributing!

What should I contribute?

Contribute whatever you think would make the wiki better! The amazing thing about wikis is that anybody can edit them, and wikis are at their best when people edit them liberally.

Do you see a place where information is missing? Do you see an awkwardly-written sentence that could be phrased better? Is there an image that should be replaced with a more appropriate one? Please, go ahead and make that improvement! Never be afraid of editing the wiki -- if the other editors think a change is bad, it's easy to revert it, so there's no risk to editing.

How to find things to work on

Here are some ways to find pages that would benefit from your attention:

• Special:WantedPages lists pages that are linked to but don't exist yet.
• Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Stub lists pages using the Stub template, which are short and need expanding.
• Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Todo lists pages using the Todo template, which have areas that need work.

You can also ask for suggestions of what to work on in the #wiki-editors Discord channel (see #Collaborating).

Collaborating

You can discuss a particular page with other editors on talk pages.

We also have a private channel in the Logic World Discord for wiki editors to collaborate. We use this channel to discuss our shared priorities and coordinate our efforts.

Currently there's no way to opt-in to this channel yourself. If you'd like to join, ask to be added in #logic-world.

How do I...

Create a new page?

Search for the title of the page you want to create on the search bar at the top of the page, or alternatively you can manually type out the URL of the page you want to create and navigate there. Then, if the page doesn't exist you will see a link prompting you to create it.

For example, if you want to create a page called "Awesome Wow", navigate to https://wiki.logic.world/wiki/Awesome_Wow and press "Create this page".

Add an image to a page?

You have to first upload the image, then use markup to display it. For the full details see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images

Use custom formatting?

For info on how to add headers, tables, lists, links, and more, see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting

Templates

Templates act like prefabs, letting you reusing wiki content across pages, even supporting parameters. An example of this would be the {{stub}} template, which will be rendered as:

This article is a stub. Please help expand it by adding content.

The MediaWiki docs on templates are here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates

You can see a list of all templates on this wiki at Special:AllPages.

Examples

As our templates currently aren't well documented, you can look at some pre-existing pages for how to use them. MediaWiki comes with a SpecialPage that shows all pages that use a certain page (including templates). Thus, if you are curious about the usage of the Todo template you can use the following link: Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Todo (referencing the template is done via {{todo}}).

For an example on how to add LaTeX math expressions, see Lookup_Table.