Content Guidelines

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Manual of Style

This article is part of the Manual of Style

• Article Layout Guidelines
• Content Guidelines
• File Naming Guidelines
• Formatting Guidelines

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Writing Style

Tone

The Morrowind Modding Wiki differs from other wikis in that it uses an instructional tone for much of its content ‐ something that most wikis avoid.

That’s not to say that we don’t use wiki style too. Many articles are general reference, not just tutorials.

TO-DO

• tone
  • instructional tone and ‘technical writing’
• callouts
• impartiality
• verifiable
• accessibility
• paragraphs
  • single sentence opener
  • 1:3:1 writing rhythm
• redundancy
  • transclusions
• media
  • images
  • videos
• downloads
• first-person tone

Transclusions

This allows for redundancy within the wiki, wherein an important piece of data (such as a table or a contents list), which must appear on multiple pages, can be stored in just one note. When updates are made to the data, only the original note needs to be edited; all pages where that data has been embedded will be updated automatically.

This is the same principle as Wikipedia ‘Templates’. However, it has been renamed because ‘Templates’ in Obsidian serve a different function.