Help:Rules and Guidelines

Welcome to the IPoly High School Wiki! This site 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. More information about the Wiki's purpose can be found here. 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. Executives are encouraged to follow the quick and simple process at IPoly Wiki: Executive 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" or just "the Wiki" when context permits.
 * Staff and other adults should be referred to by whatever name they have stated they prefer. This information may be found on their Wiki page, but when in doubt, use "Mr." or "Ms."

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 a project's 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.
 * Budgets and other sensitive documents should under no circumstances be uploaded or shared on the Wiki in any form.
 * Most pages should have an infobox, excluding 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.
 * Any content that violates any rules laid out in IPoly's Student Handbook will be removed and may result in any action laid out in the Consequences section.

Pages About People
To keep bias, private information, and slander off the Wiki, only staff can have their own pages. Students should not have their own pages, though they may still be mentioned in any other pages. On August 20, 2018, all of the 8 student pages were set to protected. (This means that these pages can be viewed, but not edited by anyone.)

For other pages about people, make sure that any information you plan to put on their page that isn't available on the IPoly website has been approved by the person that the page is about. For example, if Bill was editing a page about Mr. Bob with information not found on the IPoly website, Bill would have to get permission from Mr. Bob to put that information on the Wiki.

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.

Types
To standardize the information included in infoboxes on popular subjects, there are certain variations of the generic infobox. Generic

Group/Club/Elective

Jokes/Memes

Consequences
The administrators of the Wiki reserve the right to limit and/or revoke editing privileges from any bad actors. Action may be taken if a user continually violates the guidelines, or shares any sensitive information.

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.