Housekeeping

How entries get fixed, hidden, locked, credited, and kept alive.

Writing rules are in How to Write an Entry. This page is about what happens to an entry after it is created. Please read through both pages thoroughly if you intend on making a contribution.

Editor Changes

Volume I ran on a closed team:

the number of editors of this encyclopedia will be limited to just a handful of people to ensure quality control over the encyclopedia;

all students are welcome to take part and submit proposals to either: become a member of the editorial team [...] or become a contributor by providing text for the editorial team to review and put in the encyclopedia;

However, here, there is no submission queue and no proposal. Simply sign in with a kis.ac account and edit anything that is not locked, as long as the quality is up to our standards.

Consult Quality Control for more information.

It is also important to note that administrators are stewards, not owners. They revert, lock, hide, and answer reports. They do not get a better opinion about matters.

Credit

all credit will be given to contributors and all editors on the first page of the encyclopedia;

With converting to a digital version, every revision now records the author, under their real name, and the history of an entry is public. There is no anonymous editing and no way to quietly rewrite the past; a revert does not erase the thing it reverts, it adds a new revision on top.

While this is to prevent vandalism and promote transparency, it also serves as credit for your contributions.

Edit Comments

It is ideal to leave one on every save about what you changed and why.

Examples:

added Quotes section
fixed the date of Adventure Day
corrected grammar and structure of writing

Comments show up in history and in Recent Changes, and they are the only way someone reading a different a year from now knows whether an edit was a fix or a fight.

Reverting

History moves forward only. Reverting an entry writes a new revision whose body is copied from an older one; nothing is rewritten or lost.

Revert when an edit is vandalism, breaks the consent rule, or is plainly wrong. Do not revert because of your own wording preference. Edit it instead, and state why in the comment. If the same passage gets reverted back and forth twice, stop and ask an administrator to lock the entry rather than continuing.

Stubs

Even if an entry has three sentences and four blank fields, it is considered a legitimate entry.

**Age:**
**Likes:**
**Dislikes:**
**Other:** Has a pet dog

Red links and stubs are both invitations. Neither is a defect and neither should be deleted for being "thin".

Take-downs and reports

This is clause 3 of the Disclaimer, enforced by a button:

all information in this encyclopedia has been written with consent and if not, should be immediately taken down upon request;

Anyone signed in can report an entry, with a reason. Reports land in a queue that administrators work through.

If you are the subject of an entry and you want it gone, report it and say so. Removal of a subject who asks is not a judgement call and is not up for debate in the comments.

A take-down settles one entry. Someone who wants to be left out of the encyclopedia altogether goes on the Rejected List and stays off limits until they say otherwise. Check the list before writing about anyone, not after.

Locking

An administrator can lock an entry, which means only administrators can edit it; everyone can still read it and its history. Locking is for an entry under sustained vandalism or an edit war, and it is meant to be temporary. It is not a way to freeze a version somebody likes.

Deleting and Purging

Deleting differs from purging:

Delete hides an entry from everyone except administrators. Revisions survive. It can be undone.
Purge destroys the entry and every revision of it, permanently. It exists for content that must not stay on the server at all. E.g. a real name and a real accusation, a leaked document, sexual content about a student/teacher/admin. This action cannot be undone.

The default is to delete. Purge only when leaving the revisions intact would itself be harmful.

Satire

Entries mark their satirical passages, and an entry with any marked passage carries a disclaimer at the top, and those passages stay hidden until a reader asks to see them.

How to Write an Entry covers how to mark.

Rules:

Unmarked satire about a real person is an edit worth fixing: mark it, or take it out. You do not need an administrator for either.
Marking does not mean you can break the consent rule or set out to hurt someone. Report any entries containing passages marked as satire of this nature.

Erasing a version

A revert writes a new version on top and the older version stays readable in history forever. That is usually right, as it is what makes the record trustworthy, but it fails the person who is fine with their entry and wants one remark gone.

An administrator can erase a single version. The version will be destroyed and inaccessible but labeled in history, including who erased it and why.

An administrator quietly rewriting the record is not transparent, which we would like to avoid.

Rules:

The current version cannot be erased. Edit the remark out normally first, then erase the older versions that still carry it or the entry would be left blank.
An erased version cannot be reverted, since there is nothing left to restore.

Ask for this by reporting the entry and saying which line. Use it for a remark somebody wants gone.

Bans

A banned account can still read; it cannot edit, report, or moderate anything. Bans are given for people who does not follow the conventions in How to Write an Entry even after being reminded, or for general unacceptable behavior, not for people who are bad at writing.

The Edit Limit

Ten saves a minute, per person. If you receive a "You are editing too quickly" message, you are almost certainly saving line-by-line or too often. Please write the whole section, then save.

Do not worry about losing writing progress. What you type is saved as a draft a few seconds after you stop, whether the entry is new or already exists.

Drafts can be found under Drafts at the top of the page. They are private to you, and publishing the entry discards the draft.

If someone else edits the entry while your draft sits there, the list says so, and saving will stop and tell you rather than quietly overwriting them.

Milestones

Volume I kept a word count, therefore future volumes will do so too as part of tradition.

Volume I (Original)

1,000 words: August 30th, 2024
2,000 words: September 9th, 2024
3,000 words: October 5th, 2024
4,000 words: November 15th, 2024
5,000 words: November 26th, 2024
6,000 words: December 13th, 2024
7,000 words: February 3rd, 2025
8,000 words: March 5th, 2025
*Discontinuation of Volume I after June 2025*

Online Edition

1,000 words: August 22nd, 2026
2,000 words: August 22nd, 2026
3,000 words: August 22nd, 2026
4,000 words: August 22nd, 2026

Make sure to keep this list updated. Stats at the top of the page carries the live word count and says how many words are left before the next mark.

Before You Graduate

School accounts get suspended at graduation, and the sign-in only accepts kis.ac. Link a personal account on your profile page before your last summer, or the entries you wrote stay attributed to a name you can no longer sign in as.

Lineage

The class of 2028 founded this, on top of the <Encyclopædia NLCS> before it. The original edition is Volume I and is credited as such. This wiki itself belongs to the whole school.