Guidelines
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General Guidelines
Please read the guidelines thoroughly and follow the rules in order to accomplish a consistent text production.
- Please keep your Wiki entries short and write pivotal texts with pregnant paragraphs for a more enjoyable reading experience.
- Make sure that your Wiki page is divided into paragraphs according to our guidelines. (See: Structure of a Research Approach or Structure of a Game Page)
- Keep in mind that the citation should be in a consistent way by setting footnotes. For further information please read the Citation How To´s.
- When creating a new Wiki article make use of a table of contents as well as an abstract in the beginning to provide an overview towards the topic/ Research Approach/ Game your article is going to be about.
- For the wiki page to show a table of contents, there have to be at least 4 headlines on your page.
- Relevant names of selected games the wiki entry is about have to be written in italic.
- All links in the main text have to be internal links. Please put links to external websites in the footnotes.
- Each new page has to be added to one of the three main categories, "Games", "Research Approaches", "Authors". For how to add a page to a category, see Categories.
- For adding a page to an author category, please start with the last name and then the first name. E.g.: For Judith Butler use "Category: Butler, Judith".
Specific Guidelines
Follow this link for an example of a well structured Wiki article:
External Guidelines
The following links can be consulted to get some support and advices, how to write wiki articles:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents
https://de.wikihow.com/Eine-Wiki-Webseite-erstellen