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Revision as of 18:48, 5 April 2023

The DGF Style Guide describes the overarching theme of the DGF Wiki.

Design Considerations

Wiki self-similar design leads to better

  1. Understanding/navigation/learning
  2. Quicker Wiki development
  3. More convergent vision of the document, so it helps resolve debates.

The goal is to build an accurate, useful, and attractive document. 

We will try to follow most of the conventions of Wikipedia. For example,

  • Each time a term is used for the first time on a page, it is linked to the page/section that defines it. The second and later time it is used, there is no link.
  • Lengths of pages should be constrained above and below. A page that is too complicated should be summarized and split into multiple pages. A page that is too short is a stub and should be elaborated. Otherwise it should be deleted and reincorporated in the root page.

We follow Wikipedia’s style guide for three reasons. First, out of respect for the best decentralized organization ever created. Second, because people have already trained themselves how to navigate the pages, so it will lead to greater learning efficiency. Third, if we have an improvement, we should first try to convince Wikipedia to change.

Page Structure

This is the archetypical design for organizing the content in each page on the DGF Wiki.


Top:

Overview

Contents = Links to sections in current page


Bottom:

links to

  1. Mathematical formulas related to this Subject
  2. Code Related to this Subject
  3. See also [internal links]
  4. Notes [footnotes for this page]
  5. Citations [auto generated footnotes with shorthand for the full references below]
  6. References
  7. External links


Bottom Bottom: smaller font grey

Members; Contributors’ Guide; general announcements...


Body

Split into 3 sections, based on information theory triad:

1. Overview/judgements/perceptions/ info storage

Current conclusions on the subject

[Followed by Contents Links] 2. Why?/theory/legislation/thought/ info processing

History

Why it's right

Future


3. Execution/action/ info transmission

Applications

Each of these subjects can be further broken down into subsections along the same lines. If necessary, within the page, but preferably in a linked page for that subject.

See Also