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Contents 1 How to add information 1.1 Naming 1.2 Admins/Sysop's 1.3 Text Style 1.4 Advertising 1.5 Illegal Content 1.6 Spam 1.7 Report 1.8 Templates 1.9 Translating 1.9.1 Do's 1.9.2 Don'ts 1.10 Tools 1.11 Testing 1.12 Questions

How to add information

To be clear on writing stuff for MessengerDiscovery Wiki there some rules we must follow:

Naming

Use the following names when referring to one off them:

• Don't write MD, MD2, MDL or Messenger Discovery. It should be:
  

MessengerDiscovery

• Only write MessengerDiscovery Live if you write a specific page for version 1.#
• Only write MessengerDiscovery 2 if you write a specific page for versions 2 and higher.
• Also, it's Windows Live Messenger instead of WLM or MSN.

Admins/Sysop's

Admins and Sysop's are people with more rights then normal users. For more information and a list off the current wiki staff go to the MDLWiki:Administrators page.

Text Style

Only write articles in correct English. Before saving check your text for grammatic.
Make sure that your text/text style is easy to read.
Do not have text too small or with all kinds of wacky colors.
No alternating capitalization and ugly fonts.
No l33t style or any other fast writing.

Advertising

Advertisements and promotions are not allowed and will be reported as spam and deleted. Beside text deletion you'll be banned from this wiki.

Illegal Content

You may not write about of link to illegal things or information about them. This includes, but is not limited to:

• links to Windows Live Messenger and MessengerDiscovery beta builds.
• warez, or other illegally distributed software.
• hacking tools.
• pornography or nudity not safe for children.

Posting any illegal content, will intermediately result in an infinity ban from this wiki.

Spam

Any article that is off-topic or contributes nothing useful or interesting to this Wiki is considered to be spam. All spam will be removed as soon as possible. If you find any report it.

Report

Do you found an article that contains spam, vandalism or any other not allowed content, report it on this page. The admins/sysops will undo the vandalism and block the bot or user.

Templates

There are a few templates available for use, but only use them if you know what you're doing and it's needed to add them.
The following templates can be added:

Info Box	Add this when there's some information to note.
Question Box	Add this when there's a question you must ask.
Warning Box	Add this when there's something to be warned about.
Error Box	Add this when there's an error to note.
Stub Box	Add this when a article isn't finished or incomplete.
Extra Box	Add this when above boxes doesn't apply.
Custom Box	Only use this template if you know what you're doing.
Languages Box	Add this when there's more then one language available.
Version Box	Add this when an article applies for a specified version.

See there links about information when and how to use them.

Translating

Do's

Every page on the Wiki is possible to translate to your mother language. Follow the next steps on how to do so:

• Open the page you would like to translate and go to the locationbar in your browser and add the 2 letter language code after the link,
  like this: http://live.msgdiscovery.com/wiki/Main_Page/nl.
  Where /Main Page is the page you want to translate and /nl is the new language you want the page translate to (Dutch in this example). More info about the 2 letter language codes can be found here: ISO 639-1.
• Edit that page and add your translation. Keep the same wording and use the same layout as much as possible.
• When you're finished, go back to the English page and edit it. On the bottom of that page add the following template: Languages Box (see link with more info).
• Check off course of all works and look the same. Also check of your language is added in the language box.

More info about this can be found here.

Don'ts

• Don't translate a page name (e.g. Main Page in Dutch would be Hoofdpagina), use the language system as explained above.
• Don't translate links, use the translation system: in Spanish [[Caracteristicas]] is going to be [[Features|Caracteristicas]].
• Don't forget to translate templates. Templates are marked by '{{' and '}}'. If you add them to a page and there's English text in them, you can probably translate this, but you have to use the preview button to look if this is true. You can always go to there own page (marked by +/-) and read the documentation.

Tools

If you're a firefox user, you have to check out Wiked. This is an almost full-featured Wikipedia-integrated rich-text pseudo-WYSIWYG editor. Currently it works only for Firefox and other Mozilla browsers, but it helps me allot. You can also add custom buttons.

Testing

Want to test things out, don't know how things work, want know how things look like when added, don't test it on a regular page, but test it out on the sandbox.

Sandbox is a page where you can edit, change and test all it's contents. Besides this, all normal rules are still active!

Questions

Have questions or think you have to say something, go to the forum and post it.