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Latest revision as of 20:23, 28 October 2022

Hey! Want to help contribute to The Crazy Frog Wiki? Thank you very much! We need all the help we need to make this Wiki the best it can!

Creating An Account

Please go here to create an account. You need to solve the Crazy Frog-themed Captcha to join (the questions aren't too difficult!) To start editing pages, you must verify your email. A link should be sent to your email when you create your account. If it doesn't, try going here to resend or change your email.

Rules

I want this Wiki to be somewhat professional, if that makes sense. In that sense, I would like the Wiki to loosely follow Wikipedia's Manual of Style.^[1] I definitely do not want to be as strict as Wikipedia, however. If your first draft of a page has a ton of spelling and grammar mistakes, that's fine! Not everyone speaks perfect English, especially if it's not your first language. Anyone on the Wiki can proofread and make edits to your page, that's what makes wikis great.

Obviously though, there's things I won't stand on my Wiki. Doing any of these will get you permanently blocked, no debate.

Blatant vandalism. I know Crazy Frog's a meme and all, but if you join just to start screwing up our work, grow up, it's not funny.
- Specifically, we don't want the wiki ending up like "Crazy Frog Central."
Posting plain gibberish or anything unrelated to Crazy Frog.
- Exception: Your user page I really don't care what you do with. Have fun with that!
Uploading anything illegal. Self explanatory.
Being problematic or malicious. Like, edit warring, fighting, removing others' work without reason.

Guidelines

Try to keep a somewhat professional writing style in English.
- lower case and no puncuation and bad speling and casualk talk is not really what im looking for here. it make things look kinda sloppy
- That being said, if English isn't your first language, don't be discouraged! Any edits you make here are still greatly appreciated!
Remember to use Wiki-links in your writing, where you link to other pages with double square brackets.
- Example: Crazy Frog is the main character in Crazy Frog Racer. He races with his friends.
- This helps a ton with Search Engine Optimization.
Upload lots of pictures! Our goal is documenting Crazy Frog's past and present!
- Bonus points if they're pictures of your own Crazy Frog memorabilia!
- Galleries are our favorite!
- Currently used official artwork, such as character renders, should be kept at a lower resolution at most 500px in width or height.
Don't just copy-paste from other websites. Try to paraphrase to the best of your ability. If you are using information from another website, please don't forget to cite your sources (click "Cite" in the editor, or press Ctrl+Shift+K).

First Steps

Ready to start contributing? You can start by creating a User Page! You can see some examples here. Just click your name in red to start creating a page. Add some info about yourself, maybe add your Discord tag or other socials.

Also, check out the To-Dos page to see how you can get started contributing. There's plenty of wiki projects that need to get done.

Again, thank you very much for your help in making this Wiki the best it could possibly be! 💙 ~~ Ian

↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style

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 Hey! Want to help contribute to '''The Crazy Frog Wiki?''' Thank you very much! We need all the help we need to make this Wiki the best it can!
-== Becoming a Writer ==
+== Creating An Account ==
-Currently, the Wiki has to be "private" for the time being. Anyone can make an account, but new accounts must be "approved" and become a [[Crazy Frog Wiki:Writers|"Writer."]] This is because the wiki kept getting spammed with link spam bots. When I first created the Wiki back in 2020, literally ''thousands'' of spam bots destroyed all the work we had done. It was so bad that manually removing everything they had done would have taken far too long, so I had to start again fresh. The second (and current) version of the wiki has this protection for the time being to prevent any spam. Even with a Captcha, they still somehow make accounts. It seems like these spam bots actually only target inactive MediaWiki sites, because as of recently, there has been no new spam bots making account.
+Please go [[Special:CreateAccount|here]] to create an account. You need to solve the Crazy Frog-themed Captcha to join (the questions aren't too difficult!) To start editing pages, ''you must verify your email''. A link should be sent to your email when you create your account. If it doesn't, try going [[Special:ChangeEmail|here]] to resend or change your email.
-So, for the time being, if you want to help contribute, follow these steps:
-# [[Special:CreateAccount|Make an account.]]
-# Go on the [[Discord Server]] and ping/DM [[User:MeloNinja|@MeloNinja]] asking to be a Wiki writer.
-# That's it!
-Eventually, if I deem that it's safe to, I'll get rid of this process, so anyone may be free to make an account and start editing.
 == Rules ==
 I want this Wiki to be somewhat professional, if that makes sense. In that sense, I would like the Wiki to loosely follow Wikipedia's Manual of Style.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style</ref> I definitely do not want to be as strict as Wikipedia, however. If your first draft of a page has a ton of spelling and grammar mistakes, that's fine! Not everyone speaks perfect English, especially if it's not your first language. Anyone on the Wiki can proofread and make edits to your page, that's what makes wikis great.
-Obviously though, there's things I won't stand on my Wiki. '''Doing any of these will get you permanently removed, no debate.'''
+Obviously though, there's things I won't stand on my Wiki. '''Doing any of these will get you permanently blocked, no debate.'''
-* Blatant vandalism. I know Crazy Frog's a meme and all, but if you ask to join just to start screwing up our work, it's not funny.
+* Blatant vandalism. I know Crazy Frog's a meme and all, but if you join just to start screwing up our work, grow up, it's not funny.
+**Specifically, we don't want the wiki ending up like [https://crazyfrogcentral.fandom.com/wiki/Crazy_Frog_Central_Wiki ''"Crazy Frog Central."'']
 * Posting plain gibberish or anything unrelated to Crazy Frog.
 ** Exception: Your user page I really don't care what you do with. Have fun with that!
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 ** lower case and no puncuation and bad speling and casualk talk is not really what im looking for here. it make things look kinda sloppy
 ** That being said, if English isn't your first language, don't be discouraged! Any edits you make here are still ''greatly'' appreciated!
-* Remember to use Wikilinks in your writing, where you link to other pages with double square brackets.
+* Remember to use Wiki-links in your writing, where you link to other pages with double square brackets.
 ** Example: [[Crazy Frog]] is the main character in [[Crazy Frog Racer]]. He races with [[:Category:Characters in Crazy Frog Racer|his friends.]]
+**This helps a ton with [[wikipedia:Search_engine_optimization|Search Engine Optimization.]]
 * Upload lots of pictures! Our goal is documenting Crazy Frog's past and present!
 ** Bonus points if they're pictures of your own Crazy Frog memorabilia!
+**Galleries are our favorite!
+**Currently used official artwork, such as character renders, should be kept at a lower resolution '''at most 500px in width or height.'''
+*Don't just copy-paste from other websites. Try to paraphrase to the best of your ability. If you are using information from another website, please don't forget to cite your sources (click "Cite" in the editor, or press Ctrl+Shift+K).
 == First Steps ==
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 Again, thank you very much for your help in making this Wiki the best it could possibly be! 💙
 ''~~ [[User:MeloNinja|Ian]]''
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