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- **Images**: for now don't embed images. [ASCII art](ascii_art.md) can be used in many places instead of an image. Thousand words are worth a picture. Non-embedding links to images may be okay.
- **You can leave comments right in the text of articles**, e.g. like this: { I disagree with this [shit](shit.md). ~drummyfish }.
Articles should be written to be somewhat readable and understandable to tech savvy people who already know something about technology, i.e. neither illiterates, nor experts only (as is sometimes the case e.g. on Wikipedia). **Each article should ideally start with a general dictionary [definition](definition.md)** and continue with a simple general explanation and overview of the topic. With more paragraphs the text can get more complex. The idea is that a noob will read the first paragraph, understand the basic idea and take something away. A more advanced reader will read further on and take away more things etc. I.e. we educate in a top-down approach. **Each article should be a nice mini resource in itself**, quality should be preferred over quantity: for example the article on chess should be a nice general page about chess with focus on its programming, but also containing general overview, history, fun and interesting facts, data, essay elements and so on, so as to be highly self-contained (as opposed to the "Wikipedia approach" of making many separate articles on chess history, chess players, chess rules etc.).
Articles should be written to be somewhat readable and understandable to tech savvy people who already know something about technology, i.e. neither illiterates, nor experts only (as is sometimes the case e.g. on Wikipedia). **Each article should ideally start with a general dictionary [definition](definition.md)** and continue with a simple general explanation and overview of the topic. With more paragraphs the text can get more complex. The idea is that a noob will read the first paragraph, understand the basic idea and take something away. A more advanced reader will read further on and take away more things etc. I.e. we educate in a top-down approach. **Each article should be a nice mini resource in itself** (valuable even when printed out, without being able to follow hyperlinks), quality should be preferred over quantity: for example the article on chess should be a nice general page about chess with focus on its programming, but also containing general overview, history, fun and interesting facts, data, essay elements and so on, so as to be highly self-contained (as opposed to the "Wikipedia approach" of making many separate articles on chess history, chess players, chess rules etc.).
Bonus: **try to [troll](troll.md) idiots** -- it's great if the article starts kind of "formal", like Wikipedia style, but then later on starts using swear words and lulzy stuff so that let's say someone who just copy-pastes this as an assignment essay after having read the first paragraph actually hands in a work to his teacher that will get him kicked from the school :D
Bonus: **try to [troll](troll.md) idiots** -- it's great if the article starts kind of "formal", like Wikipedia style, but then later on starts dropping swear words and lulz so that let's say someone who copy-pastes this as a school assignment without bothering to read more than one paragraph just gets kicked out of the school.
## Sources
These are some sources you can use for research and gathering information for articles:
- **paper [encyclopedias](encyclopedia.md)!** Consult these often, they are much better than any online resource, contain obscure, forgotten info and alternative points of view.
- **paper [encyclopedias](encyclopedia.md)!** Consult them often, they are much better than any online resource, contain obscure, forgotten info and alternative points of view.
- **[Wikipedia](wikipedia.md)**: of course, but don't limit your search to it. Searching other language Wikipedias with machine translate can also help find extra info. If you know other languages than English, search that languages Wikipedia, it may have extra info. Also languages like Scots are understandable to English speakers, so try that as well.
- **[Citizendium](citizendium.md)**: can offer a different angle of view from Wikipedia.
- **non-SJW forks of Wikipedia**: to get past SWJ censorship/propaganda on Wikipedia try e.g. **[infogalactic](infogalactic.md)** or **[metapedia](metapedia.md)**.