Guides:Create

What are Guides?
At the DiPPSA Wiki one of our main focuses is to help professionals who are not familiar with technology become better at utilizing it in their job. As such, simple summations of platforms may not suffice in all instances. User-created guides give those professionals a chance to see specific, curated steps on how to make the most of the technology they need.

Guides are also the one instance we allow to break one of our Community Guidelines: "There's no I in team. While we certainly don't mind individuals linking to their own research or blog posts, keep it to a minimum. This wiki is not a platform to advertise your brand. Being a part of a collaborative community means sacrificing a certain amount of personal gain." '''DiPPSA Guides can and should be attached to a specific name or user so that site users can contact the author to ask more questions. '''In all other aspects of the site we ask that authors do not self-attribute their work.

A full list of available guides can be found on the Category:Guides page.

Naming a Guide
Guides should be named as follows... Title of the Guide (Author Name) Here are a few examples:
 * 1) Example 1
 * 2) Example 2

Final Steps

 * Make sure your guide follows the established Style Guide rules.
 * All guides should be categorized as Guides (note the plural).
 * If your guide is about a platform that has its own page (e.g. Twitter or Facebook), add it to the "User-Created Guides" section on the page