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	SD! : About : Posting : Wiki SD! Wiki help page The SD! Wiki is hosted by Seek Discipline!, and contains articles about D/s and M/s. The articles are covered by the same GNU Free Documentation License used by the Wikipedia encyclopedia, and the IC BDSM Dictionary. Editing articles Everyone with a SD! profile can edit the text of the Wiki using the "Edit article" button which appears near the bottom of each article. The Wiki uses the same ICcode language as the rest of SD! to define paragraphs, headings etc. Creating articles If you feel an article is missing, please see if there's already a similar one by looking through the list of all articles. When naming articles, avoid plurals: so we have an article with the title "Slave" rather than "Slaves"; and avoid abbrevations in titles: so "Total Power Exchange" rather than "T.P.E."; don't over-capitalise: if words are not normally capitalised in text, only capitalise the first word in article titles - so "Total Power Exchange" is normally all in capitals, whereas the phrase "common rituals" isn't, and should appear as "Common rituals" in the title of a Wiki article. If there isn't already an article, you can add it using the "Create article" button on the list of all articles. You need to specify the article title in that form. What kinds of topics are ok? Articles should either be about the theory or practice of M/s, TPE, or D/s relationships, or have a strongly D/s slant on the topic. Purely BDSM content should be posted as articles in the Wikipedia or the IC BDSM Dictionary. Cross references between articles You can make cross references by placing the article title in the ICcode command [wiki= That is, using something like: [wiki=Internal Enslavement]Enslavement[/wiki] which will produce a link like Enslavement (This method also works from SD! web board posts, profiles and memos.) If a suitable article doesn't exist already, you can still make a reference to it. When other people follow that link, the system will invite them to create the article, and this is one of the main ways in which the Wiki grows. Copyright By contributing to articles in the SD! Wiki, you're giving other people a license to copy them according to the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). In turn, this reciprocal licensing allows us to incorporate text from other GFDL encyclopedias like the Wikipedia or the IC BDSM Dictionary. All articles which incorporate text from other GFDL works must acknowledge the source. Please do this with a notice in brackets at the very end of the article: (This article incorporates text from the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XX_YY]XX YY[/url] article in Wikipedia.) (This article incorporates text from the [url=http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/wiki/XX_YY/]XX YY[/url] article in IC's BDSM Dictionary.) (This article incorporates text from the [url=http://www.londonfetishscene.com/wipi/index.php/XX_YY]XX YY[/url] article in Wipipedia.) For material with other copyright licenses, it is your responsibility to check that you have permission to copy and relicense them before adding them to the SD! Wiki. Style guide Avoid plurals in titles So we have an article with the title "Slave" rather than "Slaves". Avoid abbrevations in titles So "Total Power Exchange" rather than "T.P.E." Don't over-capitalise titles If words are not normally capitalised in text, only capitalise the first word in article titles - so "Total Power Exchange" is normally all in capitals, whereas the phrase "common rituals" isn't, and should appear as "Common rituals" in the title of a Wiki article. Capitalise people's names as they write them Many slaves and submissives use a lower case letter to begin their name, and the individual's practice should be followed when referring to them. This applies to organisations like MAsT too. Don't capitalise He, She, Master, Mistress, Owner etc Use normal English capitalisation for pronouns and improper nouns (ie everything but people's own names.) Do not use "Y/you" type constructs for referring to mixed groups. But use M/s and D/s These two exceptions are so well established that we follow common practice for the abbrevations and the full form (eg "Master/slave"). However, only do this if the two are combined in these specific phrases - ie when the slash is present. Use headings to subdivide long articles The ICcode help page explains how to make subheadings with [heading]. This improves readability, and allows the system to create an automatic table of contents for the article. Use the "Oxford Comma" When listing in a sentence, use a comma to terminate the item before the word "and". Hence "Safe, Sane, and Consensual", not "Safe, Sane and Consensual". Editorial Policy The SD! Wiki is not intended to be a general encyclopedia of BDSM or even of M/s and D/s. It is meant to be an accurate guide to the D/s, M/s and ownership subcultures, and to support the efforts of Seek Discipline! and other websites to give a voice to those subcultures. As such, it does not strive for an encyclopedia's "neutral point of view" style. With this purpose in mind, the owner, operators and contributors of SD! will edit articles to correct blatantly wrong or irrelevant information. As the text of previous versions remain accessible through the article's history page, if you find your contributions are edited out, you are welcome to cut and paste the old text into an article on the Wikipedia or the IC BDSM Dictionary.