Author style guide

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.

Goal is to build an accurate, useful, and attractive document. 

--We following most of the conventions on 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. 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. 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: Outline

Links to sections

Bottom: links to

1. Mathematical formulas relevant to this page
2. code related to this page
3. outside references
4. page references

Bottom Bottom: smaller font grey

Members; Contributors’ Guide (links to: [Transcendental Values; this Page Style Guide; conflict resolution protocols [taken from Wikipedia to start]; … ]

Body

Split into 3sections:

1. Overview/current conclusions on the subject.

Info storage, current judgements, perceptions

2. Why?/theory/legislation/thought/info processing

How we got here. Why it's right. Where we're going.

3. Execution/transmission/action

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 link.