In this page ideal formating rules are outlined, whenever possible follow these:
Links
For file links we recommend doing it in this manner, do not use leading or trailing whitespace on the link, and do not separate the File: namespace name from the filename:
File:No-icon.png No:
[[File: Marxism.png]]
File:No-icon.png No:
[[ File:Marxism.png]]
File:No-icon.png No:
[[File:Marxism.png ]]
File:Yes-icon.png Yes:
[[File:Marxism.png]]
Files are all capitalized automatically, so the first letter's case is insensitive, so while a leading lowercase letter works, it is higly discouraged:
File:No-icon.png No:
[[File:marxism.png]]
File:Yes-icon.png Yes:
[[File:Marxism.png]]
Similarly the File: namespace's first character is insensitive and automatically capitalized, but again, it is disadvised:
File:No-icon.png No:
[[file:Marxism.png]]
File:Yes-icon.png Yes:
[[File:Marxism.png]]
If your filename has spaces,replace them with underscores, even if such action is not necessary as Mediawiki automatically converts between the 2 in internal links, it leaves some ambiguity in the link.
File:No-icon.png No:
[[File:Authoritarian Conservatism.png]]
File:Yes-icon.png Yes:
[[File:Authoritarian_Conservatism.png]]
If you want the icon to link to a page, add a | and link= followed by the page name, all without additional whitespace:
[[File:Altcentr.png|link=Main Page]]
It is advised to leave whitespace after the icon link, as it makes the rendered page's formatting nicer, but this depends on context.
File:Yes-icon.png Yes:
[[File:Altcentr.png]] [[Dead Centrism]]
File:Meh-icon.png Usually not ok:
[[File:Altcentr.png]][[Dead Centrism]]
Internal Links
For internal links use the standard internal link syntax without leading or trailing whitespace:
[[Diarchy]]
The first character of a page name is always capitalized and as result the first character is case insensitive, but for consistency purposes, not capitalizing the first character is heavily discouraged:
File:No-icon.png No:
[[diarchy]]
File:Yes-icon.png Yes:
[[Diarchy]]
If the page name has spaces, leave them as spaces, do not convert them to underscores:
File:No-icon.png No:
[[Democratic_Socialism]]
File:Yes-icon.png Yes:
[[Democratic Socialism]]
If you want the linked page to have an alias, add a | and the alias name afterwards, again without any additional whitespace:
[[Dead Centrism|Our mascot]]
If the pages you're wanting to link from are from a namespace, add the namespace without whitespace in between them, like the file links:
[[Community:TheGhostOfInky]]
Similar to the pages themselves, the namespaces' first character is auto-capitalized, and as a result is case insensitive, but it is discouraged to leave it in lowercase:
File:No-icon.png No:
[[community:TheGhostOfInky]]
File:Yes-icon.png Yes:
[[Community:TheGhostOfInky]]
Bear in mind that the Category: and File: namespaces automatically add a category and file link by default, so to link to the pages you need to add a leading :, as follows:
[[:File:Marxism.png]] [[:Category:Centrists]]
External links
If the external link is to a page on the Polcompball anarchy wiki, use the provided {{PCBA}} template, simiarly to internal links, don't add extra whitespace and use spaces instead of underscores:
{{PCBA|PCBA Graveyard|Banned users}}
For links to other wikis, use their respective interwiki links, following the same rules formatting as internal and PCBA links,like for example:
For chromeball:
[[mh:chromeball:Google Chrome|Ram eater]]
For wikipedia:
[[w:Chicken nugget|Nuggies]]
Bullet lists
For unordered lists, add * followed by a trailing whitespace character, as follows:
* Hello * World
Similarly for ordered lists, do the same only with a # character:
# Item 1 # Item 2