Expectations for Writers

General

When writing an article, the best practice is to read your sources and then summarize them to the best of your ability. Do not simply copy and paste what you have read. It is imperative that the content on ICANNWiki.com be original.

User Page

Each writer is expected to maintain a coherent list of the articles that they are working on/have completed. A good example of the eventual goal and how this should look can be seen on Ali's page. It is best to keep a numbered list while you are working through the batch (using # as a bullet), and then after we edit and approve the batch we will compile it into the small version.

Under Construction

It is important to enter the "under construction" image before or after the template you use, an editor will later remove this image as the article is approved. The formatting for this is: [[Image:UnderConstruction.png]]

Citation

When linking references, make sure the coding lies behind the punctuation. For example: .<ref>[url SITENAME]</ref>

When listing the reference, use the name of the website instead of the condensed URL (LinkedIn vs. linkedin.com).

When citing an entire summarized paragraph, the citation should go at the end of the paragraph. If there are multiple citations within a sentence or a paragraph, the citation should go after the piece of information it references.

Table of Contents

A table of contents will appear in any article after 3 or more sections are created. Generally this is not necessary, so should you note that a table appears on an article you write it is important that you remove it. The formatting for this is: __NOTOC__ (Those are two underscores (_) on each side of the NOTOC.)

Leave table of contents in for LONG articles, i.e., those that require scrolling to view the entire article.