Help:Contents

Help Pages

• Help category
  • Feeds (RSS/Atom): getting update notifications from Issuepedia
  • Sandbox for testing and experimenting
  • Contact: contact information for Issuepedia
• Guidelines and Policies:
  • User Guide: things we encourage all users to do
  • Guidelines for Arguing

spam filter

If you get blocked by the spam filter, please contact me! Be sure to include your IP address so I can unblock you. I need to type up some guidelines for avoiding the filter, and the filter itself needs a CAPTCHA-based unblocker.

Editing

This page is in need of updating. Need some basic wiki-editing instructions here.

Templates

didn't I already create a page or section about templates somewhere? -W.

Various conditions under which the complete text of an external article might be posted in Issuepedia:

• Template:Authored: reprinted with Issuepedia-specific permission
• Template:Copyrt: reprinted without permission
• Template:Fiskreprint: reprinted without permission specifically for fisking (maybe this is redundant?)
  • Template:Fisking-incomplete: use this when you've posted the article but haven't finished fisking yet
• Template:Licensed: reprinted under the terms of a specific license

News Sources

Places to find current news, especially items not generally covered by the mainstream press

• AlterNet
• San Francisco Bay Independent Media Center
• the mainstream media

Technical Stuff

This is just a page listing for now; eventually there should be how-to guides.

• forms: category -- includes templates for handling form data
• code (mostly W3TPL):
  • lib: code libraries
    • links: code for handling link pages
    • util: general utility functions
  • show: routines for displaying stuff (also tend to do stuff when you include them, minimizing need for additional code, vs. requiring a function call)
    • link: displays a link page in a human-readable format

Outdated

These articles should be rewritten, updated, or scrapped:

• Article Types: some of the main types of articles, and where to find examples
• Contributors: actual people who have contributed substantially to Issuepedia