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It can also help individual editors who want to contribute, but don't know quite where to start. | It can also help individual editors who want to contribute, but don't know quite where to start. | ||
==What are the rules?== | ==What are the rules?== | ||
The administrative staff of this wiki would honestly prefer there not to be a need for formalised rules. Wikia Achievements is meant to be a way to enhance the fun of editing. If you make a genuine effort to improve the wiki in whatever editing tracks you are competing, you're playing the game properly, | The administrative staff of this wiki would honestly prefer there not to be a need for formalised rules. Wikia Achievements is meant to be a way to enhance the fun of editing. If you make a genuine effort to improve the wiki in whatever editing tracks you are competing, you're playing the game properly, | ||
===The main rule=== | ===The main rule=== | ||
However, we recognise that some of our users would like to have rules set down in stone. So here's the main rule of the game: '''you may not break any ''other'' rule of the wiki while playing this game'''. Here's a list of those other rules, just so we're clear: | However, we recognise that some of our users would like to have rules set down in stone. So here's the main rule of the game: '''you may not break any ''other'' rule of the wiki while playing this game'''. Here's a list of those other rules, just so we're clear: | ||
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Let's take a look at how this very simple rule works. One of the editing tracks involves adding categories on pages. If you make a genuine effort to put pages in proper categories, you're playing the game properly. But if you make up a rubbish category name, like [[:category:The Doctor sucks]], and then you place it on 50 pages to win the badge, you'll have performed 50 separate offenses against our [[tardis:vandalism policy|vandalism policy]]. Yes, you may have won the badge, but you'll probably end up being [[tardis:blocking policy|blocked]] because you were vandalising the site. | Let's take a look at how this very simple rule works. One of the editing tracks involves adding categories on pages. If you make a genuine effort to put pages in proper categories, you're playing the game properly. But if you make up a rubbish category name, like [[:category:The Doctor sucks]], and then you place it on 50 pages to win the badge, you'll have performed 50 separate offenses against our [[tardis:vandalism policy|vandalism policy]]. Yes, you may have won the badge, but you'll probably end up being [[tardis:blocking policy|blocked]] because you were vandalising the site. | ||
===The other rule=== | ===The other rule=== | ||
There's one more rule to Wikia Achievements. In fact this is the only rule which is actually specific to Achievements. '''Don't game the system in any way.''' | There's one more rule to Wikia Achievements. In fact this is the only rule which is actually specific to Achievements. '''Don't game the system in any way.''' | ||
For instance, if the editing track | For instance, if the editing track involves [[:Category:Alcoholic beverages from the real world|Alcoholic beverages from the real world]] — but you really want to edit the article, [[Milk]] — don't put [[Milk]] into the alcoholic beverages category just to win points. | ||
Likewise copy-editing is fine. If the only edit you make to a page is to change ''hte'' to ''the'', that's completely fine. We love copy-editors and are absolutely happy to give them an advantage in the game. However, don't make tiny, unhelpful edits, like adding a random letter or extraneous space on a page. | Likewise copy-editing is fine. If the only edit you make to a page is to change ''hte'' to ''the'', that's completely fine. We love copy-editors and are absolutely happy to give them an advantage in the game. However, don't make tiny, unhelpful edits, like adding a random letter or extraneous space on a page. | ||