Community Suggestion: Style Guide for keeping consistency (especially with multiple authors)
Style Guide for keeping consistency (especially with multiple authors)
New Feature Addition · World management · Created by kaixabu
accepted
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
Driven by my personal need to maintain focus on my own style, I searched and discovered that many people have created their own Style Guides to improve collaboration. While working on this idea, I realized that this would be a valuable addition to the Meta section (or perhaps a tab in the Styling section), as it is just as much about focus and consistency as any other meta or styling data.How does this feature request address the current situation?
Including a section on topics like tone, perspective, and other related items (see the list below, compiled and merged from various sources) would provide right-first-time guidance to distributed authors (or even to oneself), reducing the need for extensive onboarding and review cycles of new articles.What are other uses for this feature request?
Based on the suggested topics, there may be other potential uses that I haven’t considered yet. Feel free to discuss any constractive changes/suggestions on template link below.Suggested topics
Refer to the link below for the template, which includes items such as tone, perspective, navigation, imagery, icons, and more.Example
Style Guide TemplateFollow up
Note: Example is a link so you can see the suggested sections.
Aww gee.. *B*, thanks
The Team's Response
Thanks for the suggestion! We agree that style guides are very useful, but we don't think we can create a style guide template that will work for everyone—different worlds have different needs for a style guide. That said, we're accepting this because we'll address your usecase. In a future update, we'll add a field in the world configuration to select a regular article as a style guide. This article will be easily accessible by all coauthors while they edit articles. By the way, we thought this suggestion was really well-written, and we also appreciated the example! :)
Current score
11/300 Votes · +1901 points
Votes Cast
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+300
by Dalf32
on 2024-09-20 06:29 -
+100
by PoppaeaSabina
on 2024-09-16 07:24 -
+100
by Jupiter Melichios
on 2024-09-15 23:48 -
+300
by Amancham
on 2024-09-09 15:13This is a really good idea. I would place it as a seperate piece of information or part of the meta information. Would love to see this.
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-100
by Wobbix
on 2024-09-09 15:08This can be placed in worldmeta, or a root level article. While an excellent idea for the long term, I would rather limited development resources go to other features at themoment
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+300
by Nubs
on 2024-09-07 09:17 -
+300
by developertboyd
on 2024-09-06 03:45 -
+100
by DMFW
on 2024-09-04 11:18This strikes me as an excellent idea and even though I don't have any collaborators at the moment (and may never have), if I ever did go down that route I'd definitely want to make access to a style guide a readily accessible feature and it does belong in the meta IMO.
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+1
by WeStanNikolai
on 2024-09-04 07:49 -
+100
by JoellaKay
on 2024-09-03 20:16If I read this correctly, it's a pretty cool idea to include the style and such in the meta.
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+100
by Maz_Cat
on 2024-09-03 17:48 -
+300
by kaixabu
on 2024-09-03 15:50
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