RACKWiki:Author guide

RACKWiki is a harm-reductive educational resource open to any contributors. While we acknowledge that we cannot eliminate accidents, we believe the more educated and well-rounded we are as practitioners, the more we can reduce harm in our community.

Getting Started

Create an Account

An account is required to contribute to RACKWiki.

1. Create an account with username, password, and email. While you may use a pseudonym for your username, an active email is required.
2. Confirm your email address. Confirmation email may be located in your spam folder. Resend confirmation email from the email portion of your preferences page if needed.

While new users may immediately begin editing and creating within the site, those changes will not be published until they have been approved by an editor. After multiple successful contributions, the user will be granted author level access which will allow the user to publish directly without review of an editor.

Contributing

Guidelines

In order to make RACKWiki as direct and useful as possible, we encourage authors to:

• Be thorough but concise
• Include reference citations
• Frame articles through lens of harm-reductive practices
• Use consistent style and language within an article
• Use bulleted lists and tables when possible

New Articles

In order to create an article, first, log in.

Begin by typing in the name of the article you want to create in the search bar at the top of the page.

Creating an article for an existing heading

If the article or heading already exists in the wiki, it will appear in the search bar and you can select it. This will direct you to that page.

Create

Creating an article with no existing heading

Article Templates

User levels

User: Level upon creation of profile. Can create/edit, requires editor approval before publishing.

Author: Create/edit without editor approval, promoted with one or more substantive contributions

Editor: Can approve or reject User contributions, edit most protected pages

Administrator: Edit all protected pages and site set up.

Organizing

Titles

• Capitalize first word and proper nouns only
• Use most common verbiage