Help:Rules

Welcome to the IPoly High School wiki! This wiki is meant to be an informative place for transfer students, prospective students, and new staff members. In the future, it can be used as a resource and a reference to what IPoly was like in the past, and how much has changed since then. To protect this wiki's integrity, you'll find rules on this page you as an editor must follow when creating or editing content. Suggest changes to these rules on the discussion page.

Who can edit
Only current IPoly students are allowed to edit this wiki. If you are a student and would like to contribute, please see IPoly Wiki: Student Verification.

Names and Terms
MediaWiki's search is very specific when it comes to search terms, so there are specific rules for how certain things should be referred to.
 * "International Polytechnic High School" should be "IPoly" when the full name of the school is not necessary.
 * "Los Angeles County Office of Education" should be "LACOE" when the full name of the district is not necessary.
 * This wiki should be "the IPoly wiki", "the IPolynesia site", or "the IPolynesia wiki".
 * Staff and other adults should only be mentioned by their first name in the introduction paragraphs of their pages. For example, "Shawn" is acceptable only in the intro paragraph on Shawn Strand. He should be referred to as "Mr. Strand", "Strand", or "Shawn Strand" everywhere else, like on the That's Infotainment! page.

Content
Although this wiki is an open place for information, it still has limits. These limits are to protect the school and its members from unnecessarily negative outcomes.
 * Refrain from posting any section of the component contracts on any page. This is so that prospective students do not attempt the projects before they come to the school. This also means holding back specific details on project pages.
 * Every page should have an infobox, with a few exceptions (special, main, rules, etc.)
 * When writing about a person, always attempt to ask the person if they want that online. Keep in mind that every change on this wiki is logged and old versions are public, so nothing is ever permanently deleted.

Infobox
The infobox is the colored rectangle on the right side of the page. For users that are familiar with Wikipedia, it is the box that has all of the general information about the topic. Even formatting in the editor is important, as some applications and websites use very specific methods of getting infobox data. Following the exact format below for the infobox is the best way to allow compatibility with these applications. Infobox wiki text

Talk/Discussion
The MediaWiki platform has discussion built-in. Please follow the guidelines in this Wikipedia article. If you just want to chat or discuss something that is not related to this wiki, join the IPolynesian Discord server.