LifeWiki:Newcomer's Guide

Welcome to Life, the Wiki! This guide will explain what this wiki is, and what it is not. In layman's terms, this wiki is a project with a simple goal: to be written from the point of view of an average person, and to document said person's life. This is why I often call it a "choose-your-own-adventure game masquerading as a wiki" given the circumstances of it.

Namespaces
There are many namespaces on this wiki, and here they are:
 * 1. Main (no prefix) - The namespace for the choose-your-own-adventure-type content
 * 2. User - For user pages; pages that you create to explain your work on the wiki.
 * 3. Project (Life, the Wiki) - This namespace is used for pages about the wiki itself. This very page that you're reading is in this namespace
 * 4. File - For files such as images and videos.
 * 5. MediaWiki - For pages essential to the wiki interface, such as site banners and the title blacklist.
 * 6. Template - For pages that are likely to be transcluded on other pages.
 * 7. Help - Useless namespace, supposed to be used for helping newbies.
 * 8. Category - For categories of pages.
 * 9. Module - Most newcomers shouldn't be worried about this namespace, but it's supposed to contain Lua scripts for use in templates.
 * 10. Forum - For general discussion about literally anything.
 * 11. Essay - For your own personal point of view about literally anything.
 * 12. Item - For structured data.
 * 13. Property - For property related to structured data.
 * 14. Blog - Like Forum but not wikitext.
 * 15. Newsletter - This namespace is for... newsletters. The best one is "a newsletter".
 * 16. RPG - those times you just want to have some enjoyment.
 * 17. Special - For pages created by the software, that I have almost no control over.
 * 18. Basement - Chaos will unfold.

How to write a choose-your-own-adventure arc
Please note the following:
 * 1) You should enclose the entire thing in tags which will make the text larger, and make it more amazing.
 * 2) Make sure to have all of the pages in a specific story arc to be "subpages" of the main page of the arc. The way you create the subpages are like "(name of arc)/(name of subpage)". Preferably make the name of the subpage just a number, that way your players don't see what each option leads to by hovering over the thing.
 * 3) Make sure to number your options with " # " followed by each option.
 * 4) Wikilink all of the options with (name of option), so that you don't need to write out the entire page name each time.

What Life, the Wiki is not

 * 1. An encyclopedia - This site is barely even a wiki, and is especially not an encyclopedia, it isn't even supposed to be informational in any way.
 * 2. A place where libel will be tolerated - Logic.

An example choose-your-own-adventure arc
You come up with an amazing idea for an edit, and...
 * 1) You try to make the edit
 * 2) You don't