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Style Guide for keeping consistency (especially with multiple authors)

New Feature Addition · World management · Created by kaixabu
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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 Template

Follow up


Note: Example is a link so you can see the suggested sections.
Current score

10/300 Votes · +1601 points

Votes Cast

  • +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 15:13
    This 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.
  • -100

    by Wobbix
    on 2024-09-09 15:08
    This 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
  • +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 11:18
    This 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.
  • +1

    by WeStanNikolai
    on 2024-09-04 07:49
  • +100

    by JoellaKay
    on 2024-09-03 20:16
    If I read this correctly, it's a pretty cool idea to include the style and such in the meta.
  • +100

    by Maz_Cat
    on 2024-09-03 17:48
  • +300

    by kaixabu
    on 2024-09-03 15:50