New Pages Guide Lines

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Arcowiki pages should be created/edit in a common style.
The Guide Line are as follow:

Name of a new Page

All the Arcowiki pages shall have a descriptive name that will be used as title.
Each word of the title shall start with capital letter and the words shall be spaced between them.
All the new pages shall be written in English with, if necessary, interlink to preferred languages.

Category

All the pages shall be assigned to a Category.
In order to assign a page to a specific category it is possible to select the category from the bottom of the editor or adding in the WikiText the following code:

[[{{ns:category}}:''NameOfCategory'']]

New categories shall be add only by the Administrator!

DMIS Code

All the example of DMIS code (Code Example, Keyword or references to the Language) shall have the style <code> </code>.
A DMIS code shall appear in Arcowiki like this:
DECPL/DIST,4,VEC,8,ANGLE,4,TEMP,1

In order to get that style the wikitext shall be written like this:

<code>DECPL/DIST,4,VEC,8,ANGLE,4,TEMP,1</code>

DMIS Comments

All the example of the comments into a DMIS example code shall have the style <code><span style="color: green; text-decoration: none;"></span><br/></code>
A DMIS code shall appear in Arcowiki like this:
$$Comment Example

In order to get that style the wikitext shall be written like this:

<code><span style="color: green; text-decoration: none;">$$Comment Example</span></code>

Adding Images on Article

Drop An Image in ArcoWiki

The images should be preferably added as a thumbnail on the right of the document.
In order to add an image as Thumbs the procedure is as follow:

  • Load the Image into the Arcowiki by dropping the file in the drop area.
  • Add the thumb with this template code code:
[[File:''fileName''|thumb|right|400px|''caption'']]
  • the size of the thumb should be specified according the size of the image
  • the caption shall be specified


Adding a list with Text Images

In order to create a list of item with image as per the following example, customize the code below:

  • First item of the list.
  • 4628207884.jpg
  • Second item of the list.
  • 4628207884.jpg
    {|
    |-
    |<li>First item of the list.||[[File:4628207884.jpg|200px]]
    |-
    |<li>Second item of the list.||[[File:4628207884.jpg|200px]]
    |-
    |}
    

    Adding Images as Step by Step Procedure

    The images that represents a "Step by Step" procedure shall by placed into a Gallery.</br> The Gallery is a collection of picture and it is created as follow:

    • Load the Image into the Arcowiki by dropping the file in the drop area.
    • Add the gallery with this template code code:
    <gallery widths=150px heights=150px caption="caption">
    File:Example.jpg|Item Descr.
    File:Example.jpg|Item Descr.
    File:Example.jpg|Item Descr.
    File:Example.jpg|Item Descr.
    File:Example.jpg|Item Descr.
    File:Example.jpg|Item Descr.
    File:Example.jpg|Item Descr.
    File:Example.jpg|Item Descr.
    File:Example.jpg|Item Descr.
    File:Example.jpg|Item Descr.
    </gallery>
    
    • the size of the thumb should be specified according the size of the image
    • the caption shall be specified


    Add a YouTube Video

    In order to add a vide oin a page it is necessary to:

    <youtube width="640" height="480">YouTubeVideoID</youtube>
    

    an example is :

    <youtube width="640" height="480">tgMKDK4Oy3I</youtube>
    

    Preparing a Page for Language Translation

    The translation of the page shall follow the specific procedure and mandatory the interlink to English must be created.
    In order for a page being available for a localized version of Arcowiki, the Interlinks shall be created.
    To create an Interlink for a language it is necessary to add one of the following lines at the end of the page:

    * [[it: NameOfThePageInItalian]]
    * [[pt: NameOfThePageInPortugues]]
    * [[zn-ch: NameOfThePageInChinese]]
    * [[es: NameOfThePageInSpanish]]
    * [[de: NameOfThePageInGerman]]
    

    It is mandatory for the pages in local language, to return the interlink to the English version by adding the following interlink:

    * [[en: OriginalPageinEnglish]]