Peace Corps Wiki:Style guide

Contents 1 General 2 Titles 2.1 Category titles 2.2 Site titles 2.3 Personal titles 3 Category tag use 3.1 Region articles 3.2 Country articles 3.3 Personal articles 4 Category tags under a country 4.1 Site articles

[edit] General

• Capital letters are used only for proper nouns and the first letter.
  • "Mali"
  • "List of resources for Samoa"

• The main article for a country will be it's conventional short name used in everyday language. The official name will be redirected to the conventional short name.
  • "Morocco" instead of "Kingdom of Morocco".

• Titles that use the country name should follow conventional English phrasing. This helps for search engines searching direct queries. (Cities, towns, and villages are an exception, see below)
  • Packing List for The Gambia.

• The word of 'Peace Corps' is understood for most article.
  • "Peace Corps Training in The Gambia" (as a title of subsection) would just be "Training in The Gambia"

• The name of the Country is understood for subsections if the article has the country name in the title.
  • The section "What is the electric current in The Gambia?" under FAQs about Peace Corps in The Gambia becomes "What is the electric current?" since The Gambia is understood.

[edit] Titles

[edit] Category titles

• A category is titled in the plural if each member of the category constitutes an instance of what that title refers to.
  • Use of plural: [[Category:Countries]] (each member of the category is "a country": Albania, Armenia, Ukraine, etc.)
  • Use of singular: [[Category:Transportation]] (each member of the category is related to transportation, but is not "a transportation")

[edit] Site titles

• Articles about sites are titled in the following format: the full name of the site, excluding the country. Use ", ((Country))" if there is another instance of the name existing in this wiki.
  • External site: Mopti (in Mali, Africa)
  • External site: London, Ontario and London, England

[edit] Personal titles

• The following characters are can/can not be used in a title
  • not allowed: ( ) { } [ ]
  • allowed: (period) (comma) [A-Z] [a-z] [0-9]

[edit] Category tag use

• General tags [[Category:Needs review]] can be used anywhere ...or something to alert administration to the article's status

[edit] Region articles

• [[Category:(Region name)]]
  • [[Category:Africa]]

[edit] Country articles

• [[Category:(Country name)]]
  • [[Category:Nigeria]]

[edit] Personal articles

• Tag each personal page with: [[Category:(Country name) volunteers]] or [[Category:(Country name) staff]] and [[Category:(Country name)(the year service started)]]

Note: Please use name of the country, example: [[Category:Bolivia volunteers]] not [[Category:Bolivian volunteers]]

For example to add an article called Albert Einstein to the category "people" and have the article sorted by "Einstein, Albert". You would type "[[Category:People|Einstein, Albert]]".

• The tags: [[Category:volunteer]]and [[Category:Volunteers who served in (Country name)]] categories will slowly be phased out.

[edit] Category tags under a country

• All pages must contain [[Category:(Country name)]]

[edit] Site articles

• [[Category:(Country name) sites]]

• A general grouping of all sites I think is still good under [[Category:Sites]]