Drawn to Life Wiki:About
Welcome to the Drawn to Life Wiki - the Internet's largest Drawn to Life knowledge database. Our goal is to provide a free encyclopedia on everything Drawn to Life related, created and maintained by a community of fans just like you! Our wiki was founded July 8, 2008, but migrated to our new domain (drawntolife.wiki) on November 16, 2020. Read the disclaimer for more information on edit histories and file ownership.
How you can help
If you see anything that needs changing - change it! If you notice improper grammar, spelling errors, punctuation mistakes, inaccuracies, incompleteness or anything else that needs doing, hit the Edit button at the top of the page and correct it yourself.
You can also help by doing some onerous cleaning duties - checking recent changes for vandalism, creating wanted pages, ensuring that no pages are orphans, making sure that all pages have categories, and generally reorganising information as required.
It is a good idea for users to register an account. This way, your IP address is hidden from public view, and all your edits can be attributed to one account.
See our editing guides for more information on how to edit and what to help with.
Where to find us
The Wiki's official community, known as Drawn to Life: For All, can be found on a variety of off-site platforms!
You can also chat with our community using our site forum.
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Editing the wiki is as simple as clicking the "Edit" button on the top right of any article page, changing some text, then clicking "Save changes" at the bottom! Of course, there's a bit more we can get into, so let's!
Editing rules, editing conventions, and formatting
The number one rule of wiki editing is to be bold. Go ahead - make changes. Other people can correct any mistakes you make, so have confidence, and give it a try! There are all kinds of editing conventions, rules, and philosophies for the editing of wiki pages, but the be bold rule is the most important of these!
An edit can contribute whole new paragraphs or pages of information, or it can be as simple as fixing a typo or a spelling mistake. In general, try to add or edit text so that it is clear and concise. Most importantly, make sure you are always aiming to do something which improves the contents of the wiki.
When you need to use some type of formatting, such as for new headings or bolding of text, you do this using wiki syntax or the buttons in the edit toolbar above the editing zone. See Help:Formatting on MediaWiki for some of the common types of formatting used.
Edit summary
Before you save a change, you can enter a short note (must be shorter than 500 characters) in the "summary" box describing your changes. Don't worry too much about this, or spend too much time thinking about it: just put in a short description of what you just changed. For example, you might say "fixed typo" or "added more information about Baki".
This summary gets stored alongside your edit, and allows people to track changes in the wiki more effectively.
Preview
It's a good idea to use the "Show preview" button to see what your change will look like, before you save it. This is also related to tracking changes because every time you save, this is displayed to others as a separate change. This isn't something to worry about too much, but it's good to get into the habit of eliminating mistakes in your own work, by using a preview before saving, rather than saving, then having to do another edit just to make one or more minor corrections.
Show changes
Another option is the "Show changes" button which allows you to see the differences between the current version and the edited version.
Protected pages
Pages that are protected cannot be edited by anyone except users of a specific group. Protected pages will instead display "View source" instead of edit. In that case, to edit a protected page, contact a user who has permission to edit the page. The default protection levels are as follows:
- None (allow all users)
- Autoconfirmed (prevent edits by new and unregistered users)
- Sysop (prevent edits by all users except administrators)
Other types of editing
With wiki edits you can start a new page, move (or rename) a page, or even delete a page:
Remember you should always aim to improve the overall contents of the wiki with your edits.
Discussion
Every article has its own "Discussions page" where you can ask questions, make suggestions, discuss corrections, or just talk in general.
Parts of this page have been adapted from the Wikimedia Foundation privacy policy. This text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.
Where Fanon Belongs
The Drawn to Life Wiki has traditionally encouraged the inclusion of "fanon", fan-works, and theories on the wiki, with appropriate disclaimer and tone. Historically, this content was delegated to the User namespace (eg. User:BakiDance/Index), forum posts, and blogs. Separating fan material from content pages has allowed the Wiki to remain as a credible source of official Drawn to Life related material. However, this has also limited the ability to search and discover fan works, as content in the User space is not indexed, and has made collaboration more difficult.
Moving forward, the Drawn to Life Wiki will now enforce that fanon content is delegated to the new Fanon namespace. Pages in this namespace are automatically indexed by the site allowing them to be more easily discovered. In addition, this namespace is easier to link to, removes ambiguity surrounding the contributors of a work, and clearly communicates to readers that the content is not canon.
The Drawn to Life Wiki has always maintained that fan content and theories are not to be included within article pages in order to remain an accurate source. Though this stance has not changed, future contributors of fan works will be allowed to include links to their fan works within the Fanon namespace on article pages, so long as they use the designated "Fan Works" section.
What Content is Allowed
Most forms of fan-generated content is allowed on this wiki as long as it is being uploaded by the original creator (or with permission) and relates to Drawn to Life on some level. Everything from short stories, novels, fan-fiction, character pages, music, animations, videos, fanart, theories—and more—has a place and is welcome here. Still, we ask that users follow the following guidelines:
- Only the original author of a fan work may upload it to the wiki, unless permission is granted otherwise.
- All fan materials added to this wiki must be appropriate, or have valid warnings provided at the beginning of an article using the Imbox template.
- Materials featuring pornographic, pedophilia, incest, intense gore or violence, attacks on marginalized groups, or otherwise violate this site's community guidelines are strictly prohibited.
- Media in the form of external download links are prohibited.
The Drawn to Life Wiki supports all media in the forms of rich text and HTML/CSS, images, audio, and videos (through use of the <youtube> tag).
Suggested Templates
Unlike with article pages in the mainspace, fanon works may follow any format or style, and are under full control by the main contributor. This gives the owner of a fan work full control over how their fanon page is displayed. Still, we recommend including the following templates to make editing easier:
- Template:SubTitle for adding short author tags or other data to the top of an article page.
- Template:EditState to specifying how others should interact with your page.
- Template:Imbox for any other notification banners.
- Template:InfoOC for character-based infoboxes.
For more in-depth pages, you may also be interested in the following templates:
- Template:ColorDot for neatly displaying colors within templates.
- Template:Tooltip for adding mobile-friendly tooltips to text.
- Template:Icon to include icons within page headers on in-line with text.
- Template:Quote to properly display character quotes.
- Template:ScrollBox to add boxes of scrollable content to pages.
Otherwise, if you see a format on another page that you like, feel free to edit the page to view and reuse the code.
Get Started!
That's all! Let your creativity go wild and have fun! For additional help resources, check out Fanon:Home.Everyone is able to view and make edits to pages on the Drawn to Life Wiki, with or without an account. A number of special user roles also exist on our wiki with more advanced rights and features in order to help prevent spam and vandalism. Below is a description of these rights along with the local users in these groups.
Administrators
Administrators are trusted users who are generally chosen by the community and have access to the following tools:
- All privileges from other groups (except Bureaucrat).
- Delete and restore pages, as well as delete images or files.
- Lock pages or articles.
- Block users who are vandalizing the Wiki from editing, etc.
- Edit the Wiki's skin and format.
- Edit MediaWiki pages.
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Administrator BakiDance Bureaucrat since Feb. 15, 2016 |
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Administrator BreGee Bureaucrat since Feb. 15, 2016 |
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Content Moderators
Content Moderators are users who have additional tools available to moderate parts of the community that host the Wiki’s content. These tools are:
- Deleting and moving pages
- Deleting and moving files
- Undeleting pages and files
- Rollback
- Reuploading files
- Protecting and unprotecting pages
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Content Moderator BakiBot Content Mod since Apr. 09, 2016 |
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Content Moderator DylanDude Content Mod since Nov. 09, 2020 |
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