Conventions

This is a list of conventions about organizing the wiki. These are subject to change, of course, and they're not absolutes - content can be organized other ways.

Tagging

Most content should ideally be tagged. The emerging convention is for the tag to be a category, e.g. "author", and the tag value to be a specific instance of that category, e.g. "Alicorn". Authors, continuities, settings, and threads should be tagged with the authors involved.

Suggested tags include:

• author (value: author name)
• template (value: template name - author) (author should be noted in case of template name collisions)
• group (value: group name) (generally for grouped templates or grouped minor characters)
• character (value: character name (screenname))
• circumstance alt (value: canon character name)
• category (value: continuity, thread, setting, etc)
• setting (value: setting name)

Author Shelf

The convention for Authors is for each Author to have their own book. An Author may or may not have category-less pages like 'About X'. Common Author chapters are templates, with instances as alts within that template. ('Minor Characters' should probably be its own chapter). Other suggested Author chapters and category-less pages:

• Related solo works by this author
• List of settings this author writes
• Recommended threads and continuities

Note that page content can be mirrored between pages (https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/user/reusing-page-content/). Typically, things like "threads" and "settings" go on other shelves, but major examples could reasonably be mirrored (with the base example in the proper shelf).

Continuity Shelf

The convention for Continuities and threads is for each major Continuity to have its own book. We have not figured out a convention for notable Sandboxes yet.