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TipThePlanet:Guide to adding information
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Tip the Planet's aim is to build and share a free-to-use encyclopedia and how-to guide of all things 'green' or 'environmental'. Anyone and everyone can share their knowledge and experience to help others and the planet. We believe that a comprehensive green wiki will massively benefit society, as anyone can contribute to the body of knowledge to help others. Click here for more information about our mission.
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Editing this wiki - get started
Editing a wiki is incredibly easy, all you need to do is click on the edit tab at the top right of the screen, near the top. Here's some more information to help you get started:
- Don't be afraid to get started - just click edit at the top of any page and you can begin to edit the site.
- If you'd like a basic understanding of the way the wiki system works, click here. In addition, here's our editing help article. For our guidelines please read our editing rules.
- If you know what you want to write about, have a search to see if you can already find information about the topic you are interested in by clicking in the search box on the top right of the page. If there's something similar, see if you can edit that topic rather than adding a new one.
- If you can't find anything on that topic, you can request that the page is written by our community, or you can start by clicking on the red writing after you've done a search for it and get started.
- This wiki provides information on specific subjects, as well as tips about that subject. Here are a few example best pages to give you an idea as to our preferred layout:
- Information about a certain subject should be written like a document, a bit like Wikipedia - Rain or Deforestation
- A group of different categories - Tips on energy
- A specific tip - Fish not to buy or Air dry washing
- A reference page - Environmental news tips
- Where possible, try to break up paragraphs rather than adding big long blocks of text (although sometimes this will be necessary). Also, please highlight tips with the {{Tip}} template. A tip is a practical piece of information that helps people. It's as easy as
{{Tip|always wash your hands before dinner}}. (see also Help:Templates for more information) - When creating a new page by placing the square brackets around a term, please make sure that the page name is the best name for the page. For example, create a page called 'green travel' rather than a page entitled 'why everyone should think about green travel' or 'green travel is something you should think about'. This is a poor page name - Are manufactured logs toxic or are they better than firewood?. Firewood is better, then pose the question on the firewood page.
- Please make sure you present a balanced argument and you include information from a number of sources and reference them properly, like on this page Fish not to buy. Here's a guide to linking within a wiki.
- Please do not copy and past large swathes of information from other pages on the Internet, as this infringes copyright, unless you wrote the information yourself and it's directly relevant. Pages should be original.
- You might also want to add an organization, or any products to the organizations or products section.
- When adding photos, make sure you position them in properly and give them a relevant title, like the logo on this page Recycling tips. Here is more information about adding and editing images. Please don't call the image something like water185746.jpg unless there is good reason.
- Please do not delete something just because you don't agree - the value of this site is via discussion, not censorship.
- If you add some text, try suggesting some of the content link to other pages. For example, if you add a word or set of words there should be a page for - then at least someone knows to find or build the page later. For example, in the sentence, 'Thinking about Double glazing and green energy in the home' includes two other pages and helps people find out more.
- Put the most relevant links to other pages on the site at the bottom or the top of the page, like this: Electric oven
Other tips
- If you think a page has a poor title and want to change its name - follow this guide for Moving a page
- If you feel someone has spammed a page, or a set of edits is very poor, you can go into the history section and 'rollback' to go back to previous incarnations of that page. This is an easy way of making sure that the page is kept as informative as possible.
Discussions
If you disagree with something - start a discussion page about it as opposed to wiping it out - often discussions are the best way we can come to a great undertanding of the problems at hand! You'll see the discussion tab at the top next to edit!!
