Getting Started

Guidelines for creating a great article here:

Getting Started

• Create a user account
• Please feel free to experiment, it's a wiki and pretty much everything can always be corrected. The Sandbox is a great place to play around.

Creating Content

• Write from a Neutral Point of View (NPOV)
• It is ok to use images that are in the public domain or under a creative commons license. It is also ok to use company logos.
• It is also ok to use content from ICANNWiki.org (the older version of this site), but much of it has been written from a promotional point of view and will need to be converted to a neutral point of view.
• using an internal link is always good, so, as an example, instead of defining an acronym like this "ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)", just use "[[ICANN]]" and then we'll define ICANN on that page.

What not to do

• Do not include promotional material; the point is to educate not sell
• Do not copy text or images from other websites, writing must be original. It is fine to read, understand and then create your own content.

Creating Company Articles

• When uploading a company logo, try to give it a name which includes the name of the company and the word logo, like "ABC-Logo.jpg". If you use just "logo.png" over time some logos will overwrite others.
• Use the Company Infobox Template
• Put all key people into the infobox

  Shorten people's titles to make them fit better, so "Executive Vice President" becomes EVP

• Add [[Category:Company]] to the bottom of the page to categorize the article as a company
• If the company is a Registrar or Registry, then add [[Category:Registrars]] or [[Category:Registries]]

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