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Page Criteria
Before you start a new page, please remember few basic things a page author must know.
- Page Topic that you are going to start must relate to our Culture, Heritage and Region.
- Regions includes Sikkim and it's neighborhood (i.e Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Bhutan)
- Biography of Celebrities (Politics or Entertainment), only if he/she belongs to our Region.
- Images must relate to the summery or the topic of the page.
- No more than 1 related video per page.
Copyright / Give Credit to Author
Do not submit copyrighted material without original author's permission. When adding information to articles, make sure it is written in your own words. If you are authorized to copy some of original author's permission, please do give credit to author using his initial or website link.
Characters used in Topic
Since many special characters conflicts with wiki internal paths and variables, one must keep these simple things in mind before they can start a new page.
No Special characters
The following characters are not allowed in page titles:
# < > [ ] | { }
- The non-printable characters with values 0 through 31, and the "delete" character 127 in ASCII are also not allowed.
- The backslash (\) and slash (/) gives problems.
- A page name cannot start with a prefix that is in use to refer to another project, including language codes, e.g. "en:", or one of the pseudo-namespaces "Media:" and "Special:".
- The maximum page name length is 255 bytes (excluding the namespace prefix). Be aware that non-ASCII characters may take up to four bytes in UTF-8 encoding, so the total number of characters you can fit into a title may be less than 255 depending on the language it's in.
- The first character of a page name cannot be a colon (:), space ( ), or underscore (_). A slash gives a mild complication, see above. A percent sign (%) gives complications because depending on what follows in a link, the link may not work or interpret the sign together with some following characters as a code for a character: % and %1 work normally (but perhaps there are complications with such page names).
spaces/underscores
Spaces/underscores which are ignored:
* those at the start and end of a full page name * those at the end of a namespace prefix, before the colon * those after the colon of the namespace prefix * duplicate consecutive spaces
Some show up in the link label, e.g. [[___help__ :_ _template_ _]] becomes ___help__ :_ _template_ _.
Coding of characters
A page topic name cannot contain e.g. %41, because that is automatically converted to the character A, for which %41 is the code. [[%41]] is rendered as A. Similarly %C3%80 is automatically converted to the character À. [[%C3%80]] is rendered as À.
Please also see : Growing this Wiki.