Naperville203wiki:Style guide

This page describes the official style guide for this wiki that determines how pages should consistently be formatted. To see how items should be formatted, please see the Data model page.

Namespaces
This wiki uses namespaces to organize pages. Namespaces are the labels that precede a colon at the beginning of a page name. The namespace of this page is "Naperville203wiki".

Main
The main namespace makes up "normally-named pages" without a colon like Naperville Central High School. This namespace is used for any content that does not have a dedicated namespace.

Naperville203wiki
The Naperville203wiki or "Project" namespace is for pages describing the operation of this wiki.

Courses
The courses namespace is currently used for high school courses but may expand or a new namespace might be created for Junior High and Elementary grades and courses.

Staff
The staff namespace is used for describing teachers, administrators, and other learning-related staff members (a.k.a not custodians) who work for the district.

Activities
The Activities namespace is used for documenting activities, clubs, and sports that are affiliated with the district.

Content

 * Links to other pages should only be linked the first time they are mentioned and only at any relevant place re-mentioned, particularly in longer articles, where it would be useful.
 * The first time staff members' names are mentioned on a page should use their full name and following uses should use their preferred formal name like Mr. X, Mrs. X, Ms. X, their first name if they prefer that, etc.

Courses
Courses should include the Course template at the top of their page.

Sections should include:
 * Lead: The lead section should summarize the page in less than 300 words.
 * Curriculum: This should describe how the class curriculum is organized. Sublevel headings should be unit or project names
 * Components: Used for describing the various components of a course, particularly the resources distributed and used and the assessments taken.
 * Environment: What a student should expect the environment of the class to be. What the students and teacher is like; how they manage their time, assignments, and resources in order to be successful; etc.

Curriculum
Dedicated pages for units and individual lessons in those units can be created as subpages for course pages.

These pages should utilize structured data and generate all their content using the Unit template which pulls data from correctly-linked items.

Staff
Staff should include the Staff template at the top of their page.

Staff articles are about real people. This means that you can be honest about a teacher's habits, teaching style, etc. but you must remain respectful and not defamatory. Unsourced questionable content may be removed.

Activities
Activities should include the Activities template at the top of their page.

Page hierarchy
The page hierarchy should follow this structure:

The root page (example: Course:AP Calculus BC) should always describe something in the most-general way. For example, if a course is offered at more than one school, the root page should not describe it in the context of a particular school, but all of them.

To describe something in the context of a particular school, create a subpage with the ending fragment the school's abbreviation (example: Activity:Business Professionals of America/NCHS).

The root page should always visibly link to its subpages.

Here are some general types of subpages that apply to any namespace:
 * Dates. If the something changes over time, the previous versions and their related subpages should be moved to under a year subpage for the last last year that version of something existed. For example, Activity:Business Professionals of America/NCHS in 2022 should have the Activity:Business Professionals of America/NCHS/2022 subpage and all content related to 2022 should be under Activity:Business Professionals of America/NCHS/2022/.

Courses
Course subpages can usually include
 * Units. For example: . Units should always have a   second-level subpage and a numerical third-level subpage if there is enough content for a dedicated unit page. Unit pages should only be numerical and never the name of the unit.

Names
Page names should always be their full, non-abbreviated name.

Courses
Courses should be their official full name. For example, "AP Physics 1" should be used instead of "AP Physics".

Staff
Staff member's full names should be used. For example, "Nicholas Straka" should be used instead of "Nick Straka" or "Mr. Straka".

Activities

 * Acronyms for clubs should not be used. For example, "Business Professionals of America" should be used instead of "BPA".
 * Sports should use their official IHSA name. For example, "Boys Basketball" should be used instead of "Basketball".