IndieGuide:Community Portal

From IndieGuide

This is a site for indie developers, by indie developers - it's an indie community site. You should find here just about any information a developer could need. If you don't find it here, make sure you add it for others.

In order to achieve our aim as effectively as possible, we set out some guidelines you should bear in mind when working with the wiki.

Wiki Guidelines: explains the wiki guidelines. Please read (or skim) them before adding to the wiki.

Forum Guidelines: explains the guidelines for the forum.

Site To-Do List: As we all collaborate over the Internet, we maintain a section where tasks can be managed conveniently by all of us. Check out the to-do list if you want to contribute to an area in need.

Site Documentation: The Site Documentation is like a repository of documents related to working on the wiki. It's more of an administrative thing.

By the way, if you like this site and become a regular contributor you can also help us spread the word of the site by adding our link in your signatures in other forums.

When to use the Wiki, the talk/discussion page or the forum

We make a distinction between the wiki itself, its talk/discussion pages (that's the tab "discussion" at the very top of every page, just before "edit") and the forum, and what should go in each. Basically, the wiki is at the heart of it, and the other two exist primarily to facilitate and support the wiki.

• There is a simple rule of thumb: if the intended content is valuable and contributes to the body of knowledge in the wiki, it should go there. The wiki should be the source to consult for information, not the forum or the talk/discussion pages - hence all info should be put there, not in the forum.
• If your contribution relates more to a clarification with other authors on a topic found on a particular page, you best put it on the talk/discussion page of that page. Should they get to long-winded, you better move to the forum.
• The forum can serve several functions:
  • If you want to share you thoughts and dicuss a topic purely for the fun of it.
  • If an idea has not yet an aim or produced clear conclusions, or you have some new suggestions to the site, it's best to start a thread in the forum. Just make sure to add interesting facts later to the wiki after the discussions in the forum ended.
  • If you are working on a large article for the wiki, maybe with serveral authors and you try to organise/communicate/share information with them or you want input from others or their involvement.
  • If you are clarfying a topic from a page in a huge and long-winded discussion.
  • Just bear in mind the rule: the forum is there to support the wiki. There are probably other forums more suited for very detailed discussions.

You find guidelines for the talk/discussion also on the Wiki Guidelines page.