Contribution Guide

Please review the contents of this page to understand how DokuWiki is implemented and the methods you can use to contribute pages.

All you need to do is join our Discord server and be assigned the @Brahe Crew role. That usually means at least one active character in the community.

Once you have the assigned roll, the site's login button will work for you. We use Discord as our Oauth provider. It works just like the Login with Google or Login with Facebook buttons you may see on other websites.

Anything the site gives you permission to edit, including pages you didn't create.

Why? It takes a village to ensure the information on this site is current and correct. Brahe has been ongoing for six years, with no plans on stopping anytime soon. There are many people, places, and things which need to be kept current.

Creating a page has a few steps to get it just right:

• In the search bar, type lcars: followed by the page you want to create
  • Use lower case
  • Replace non-alphanumeric characters (such as the apostrophe) with an underscore _
• Click the red link after the message If you didn't find what you were looking for, you can create or edit the page

Once in the editor window, use Preview to check the contents of your new page to make sure it looks how you want it to. Then, use Save to finalize the changes. Refer to the syntax guide below for more information on how to format your page.

Example: to create the page for Tri'a K'mnzi, you would search for lcars:tri_a_k_mnzi. This ensures that when you link a page using the double-brackets syntax (ignoring the slashes) ( \[\[Tri'a K'mnzi\]\] ), it links automatically to the page.

DokuWiki does not use the familiar Markdown language which Discord and Discourse uses. Instead, it uses a special Wiki syntax which can be thought of us as progenitor to Markdown. Instead of reproducing the individual guides, we'll link to the different sites which contain detailed instructions.

Pages and media (ie images, files) in DokuWiki are stored with a colon-deliminated path where each colon is like a directory name. For instance, this page is called lcars:contribute. You can think of this as C:\lcars\contribute.html if it helps.

To accommodate may files and pages, a simple namespace structure has been created:

root:
  lcars:
    - zaliel_sel
    - amanda_webber
    - img:
        crew:
          - zaliel_sel.png
          - amanda_webber.png
        ranks:
          - starfleet_captain.png
          - starfleet_commander.png
    - uss_brahe:                           # This is a page and a namespacee
        - deck_layout
        - gallery

Therefore, when creating a new page, ensure it is in the lcars: namespace. If you need to store assets which other pages use, place them in the lcars:img namespace. Otherwise, store the assets directly under the page you're creating (such as lcars:uss_brahe:deck_layout.

Copy the contents of one of the following pages into a new page to quickly begin building a new page:

• Stardate calculator