Anabaptistwiki:Articles
This pages provides some basic information about writing articles. To return to About Anabaptistwiki page click here.
What is an Article?
Article pages are the primary content pages on the Global Anabaptist Wiki. They include encyclopedic information about Anabaptist-related groups and organizations, as well as more informal, personal stories about the life of Anabaptist-related groups. They occupy the main namespace of the Global Anabaptist Wiki. The main namespace does not include pages that are used for organization and policy. In other words, pages like category, special, or file pages, are not places where you should insert important informative content. For example, the article page entitled Paraguay will contain general information about Anabaptist-related groups in Paraguay, while the Paraguay category page will include a list of all the articles that fall under the Paraguay category.
Article Content
While the Global Anabaptist Wiki structure is flexible, try to use this article template when creating an encyclopedic article. Fill in as many sections as you can, and create new sections if you have pertinent information that does not fall in any of the sections from the template. Remember, incomplete information is better than no information.
Encyclopedic articles should be informative and unbiased. In other words, include information like: who, what, when, where, how, etc.... If there is interpretive analysis that you wish to include, please attribute it to the appropriate author in order to recognize the author's work and alert the reader to a possible bias.
"Story" articles on the other hand are much more flexible. They provide descriptive information about the life of a specific Anabaptist-related group that does not fit in the encyclopedic article about that group. Click the following link to learn more about story pages on the Global Anabaptist Wiki.
Style
When entering content into the Global Anabaptist Wiki, use the following style guide.
Citations
Always cite the sources you are using to contribute content to the Global Anabaptist Wiki. Use Turabian Style when citing sources. To cite a source enter the following after the piece of information you wish to cite: <ref>Your citation</ref>. Make sure that underneath the "Citations" heading there is a block of text that looks like this: <references/>. This code will collect all the citations underneath the "Citations" section.
