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We really need to gear up if we want to launch the Guide in a reasonable time frame. If every registered user contributes at least one significant thing to the wiki every day, we can do it. Please aim for this goal.

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Here is a good introduction to writing better wiki articles.


Another useful tutorial device is the "Wiki Help" button, which appears under the editing window of the Sandbox.

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To answer a question from the Forum, Wikipedia articles can be migrated here (and edited further) provided that you include a notice that some of the material has been taken from Wikipedia under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. To see some candidates for migration, check Wikipedia's List of Asian American Topics, Asian American Issues, and Asian American Culture pages.

There is a small group of Wikipedia users that seems to be working along some of the same lines as we are, but without the empowerment focus.

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Don't turn the Wiki into a train wreck. Content should not be forced where it obviously does not pertain to the page topic. Take the effort to find the right page for the topic. If no page currently exists, find an appropriate parent page, take the time to write an appropriate narrative introducing your topic, create an internal link, and follow the link ("?") to create a new page where you can put your material.

Aim to clean up more messes left by others and leave fewer messes of your own for others to clean up.

P.S. If you think I'm being nasty here, I'm actually displaying patience by putting in the time to explain myself here. I really don't have the time to write a substantive response every time I see something messed up on the Wiki — in most cases I'll just delete it without comment. So do put in the effort to do things right.

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There are no magic elves here. Leaving "raw material" behind in the hope that someone else will turn it into an article is considered anti-social behavior, and if it becomes a habit, is grounds for banning. While incomplete drafts of Wiki pages are acceptable, extraneous material that an author is using while writing is in progress belongs on the author's computer, not on the Wiki. — Andrew

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There's something else you need to get the hang of: making internal links that appear differently in the text and as the titles of the linked pages. For example, if you are writing the following sentence:

The model minority stereotype is pervasive in the mainstream media.

If you want to create a page titled "The Model Minority Stereotype" — titles should be capitalized, after all, you might type:

( (The model minority stereotype) ) is pervasive in the mainstream media.

The problem is that you now have created a page titled "The model minority stereotype" — that's how it appears in the sentence, after all.

The solution is to provide both formats, separated by a | (vertical slash) symbol, like so:

( (The Model Minority Stereotype|The model minority stereotype) ) is pervasive in the mainstream media.

Now you can go back and fix all of those awkwardly titled documents you've created in the past two days. I've done a few for you already, but you should do the rest.

Thanks,
Andrew

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( (The Model Minority Stereotype|The model minority stereotype) ) is pervasive in the mainstream media.

Now you can go back and fix all of those awkwardly titled documents you've created in the past two days. I've done a few for you already, but you should do the rest.

Thanks,
Andrew


































Wiki is what you make it. No one is going to clean up your articles for you or organize them nicely for you. If you don't organize your work and leave backlinks as you go, don't complain when you find you've created a gnarled mess.