Wikijunior:Ancient Civilizations/Contributing
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[edit] Be Bold
The Wikijunior community encourages users to be bold in updating articles. Wikis develop faster when people fix problems, correct grammar, add facts, improve the style, and so on. We want everyone to be bold: it's okay.
Also, of course, others here will edit what you write. Don't take it personally. They, like all of us, just want to make Wikijunior as good as it can possibly be.
Please, if you can contribute to this book, do so. Many sections are in need of cleanup and complete rewrites. You can work on almost anything including this page, but if you want to make some significant changes please bring them up on the discussion page. New articles about additional Ancient Civilizations are welcome; see the section Create or request an article.
[edit] Guidelines
When working on this project, remember that it's aimed at children between the ages of 8 and 12.
Try to restrict discussion to the main discussion page so that people can actually see your message without having to check specific pages.
For more information about how to write excellent articles for Wikijunior see the Style Guide.
[edit] Create or request an article
You are encouraged to create an article on an interesting Ancient Civilization. Note however that not all articles will make it into the final published version, though they will all be available on this live online version. If you would like someone else to write a page about an Ancient Civilization, add your suggestion to the Article Stubs list. When creating stub articles please use the Stub Template.
[edit] Major Questions
The questions that will appear in every article are:
- What country did they live in?
- What did their buildings look like?
- What did they eat?
- What did they wear?
- What did their writing look like?
- What did they believe?
- How is their History?
- Are some of them famous even today?
- What is left of them today?
[edit] Article Stubs, Developing Articles, Publishable Articles
The list of articles on the front page is divided into three columns. These columns indicate how close each article is to completion.
Stubs are articles with limited or sparse content. When articles are first created, they should be placed in the stubs column. These articles should be marked with the Wikijunior article stub template.
When an article has at least two or three sentence answers for every question, has photos, and has had multiple authors it should be moved to developing articles.
When articles are factually true, contain good interesting content, have interesting and good quality photos, and are stylistically appropriate for 8-12 year olds they should be moved to the publishable articles column. When articles are moved into the Publishable Articles column they should also be added to the Printable Version. If you see an article in the publishable column that contains factual errors or otherwise falls short of expectations, please either fix it or move it back into the Developing Articles column with an explanatory note.
In addition to organizing the content into these three columns, the Wikibooks development stages icons are also used. Generally, articles that are stubs will be 0% or 25% complete, developing either 50% or 75% and publishable 75% or 100%.
