Creating Pages

This page is designed as a checklist and more thorough guide to creating pages. It expands upon TemplateGender and TemplateOrientation. Please refer to both of these pages as the template pages have the formatting requirements.

REMINDER: To add templates, type in {{ to open the template wizard.

Create a Gender Page

1. Create a new page by editing the end of the site URL. For example, to create a page called Cisgender, add Cisgender after wiki/ https://lgbtqia.mywikis.wiki/wiki/Cisgender. Then visit that URL and click Create.
   
   
2. Go to TemplateGender, press Edit, ctrl+a, then ctrl+c (to copy all the text in the editor). Then go to your new page and ctrl+v (paste) in the text. Then close the TemplateGender editor by pressing Esc on the TemplateGender page.

   It's recommended to copy text in the Editor because it copies certain components better than copying from the Viewer.

3. Upload the main flag using Special:Upload. Ensure it's no larger than 2000px wide and/or 2000x tall, and opt to upload png if possible. Alternatively jpeg and webp formats are acceptable but must be categorised with artifact compression if applicable. Name it simply after its gender name (including the .png or .jpg). Add _creatorname or Alternate after the name if the file is already taken. Then upload.
   
   Once uploaded, edit the summary. Type in {{ to open the template wizard, add the Image template. Please fill all fields if the information is available. Use this online tool to help find color and hue names. You can use almost any image editor to get hexadecimal codes, but this online tool is available too.
   
   
4. At the start of the page, add the Gender template. Not all fields are necessary.
   
   
5. Fill in the fields marked by [ ].
   
   
6. Add genders to the Related Terms table. Add subgenders to the Subgenders table. Add prefix and suffix variants to the Prefixes and Suffixes table.
   
   DIFFERENCES:
   
   Prefixes and Suffixes have the same name as the term plus a non-gendered prefix or suffix (such as agender having agenderflux).
   
   Subgenders are gendered labels that belong to the main term/umbrella and don't require their own page (such as hypergender having hyperboy). Gender modalities may also include subgender terms (such as transgender having transboy).
   
   Related Terms don't belong to the main term but are related (such as bigender being related to trigender). Unsure of what is related? Check what links to the page for inspiration. Related term relationships should remain as consistent as possible, using the following relationship types:
   • Similar - a version of the label that shares many qualities.
   • Opposite - a version of the label with opposing genders or concepts.
   • Counterpart - a version of the label with the same function but with different genders.
     • Take Genderfae (Genderfluid but never a Man or Masculine) as a gender example...
       • A similar term would be Genderfaer (Genderfluid but never a Man).
       • An opposite term would be Genderfluid but never a Non-Man or Non-Masculine.
       • A non fluid counterpart would be All Genders except Man or Masculine (Nomagender).
         
7. Input any Flags and Symbols information. Expand upon flag meanings if present. Create a gallery under Flags and Symbols. Any related or alternate flags that are not already in the page should be put here. Follow the usual image uploading process.
   
   
8. Begin adding citations using the Cite function in the editor. For each citation, either follow the MLA guidelines as paraphrased in Rules#Resourcing, or use the Cite template for web based sources. Add a citation for any information that is not common sense (such as statistics, term creation, history, etc.). Links to other internal pages do not need citations, including the Related Terms table.
   
   
9. For every subgender, prefix variant, suffix variant, and alternate name of the gender, add a redirect using this tool. Subgenders should ideally redirect to Pagename#Subgenders. Prefixes and Suffixes should redirect to Pagename#Prefixes_and_Suffixes. All redirects should be categorized as per these redirect instructions.
   
   
10. Add the page to categories as appropriate, noting that pages should only be added to their lowest category points - meaning Demigirl would be in Fiaspec but not Gender, as Fiaspec is already in Gender. See here for a reminder of the category tree, also keeping in mind the Maintenance category. If you're unsure of how to categorize it, place the page in the Needing Categorization category.
    
    
11. Tidy up any guide text (marked in italics). You're done! <3
    
    

Create an Orientation Page

1. Create a new page by editing the end of the site URL. For example, to create a page for Bisexual, add Bi_(orientation) after wiki/ https://lgbtqia.mywikis.wiki/wiki/Bi_(orientation). Then visit that URL and click Create.

   Orientations are formatted in an orientation-neutral manner so that it can refer to any type of orientation, i.e. Bi_(orientation) as a page can include both Bisexual and Biromantic.

2. Go to TemplateOrientation, press Edit, ctrl+a, then ctrl+c (to copy all the text in the editor). Then go to your new page and ctrl+v (paste) in the text. Then close the TemplateGender editor by pressing Esc on the TemplateGender page.

   It's recommended to copy text in the Editor because it copies certain components better than copying from the Viewer.

3. Upload the main flag using Special:Upload. Ensure it's no larger than 2000px wide and/or 2000x tall, and opt to upload png if possible. Alternatively jpeg and webp formats are acceptable but must be categorised with artifact compression if applicable. Name it simply after its orientation name (including the .png or .jpg). Add _creatorname or Alternate after the name if the file is already taken. Then upload.
   
   Once uploaded, edit the summary. Type in {{ to open the template wizard, add the Image template. Please fill all fields if the information is available. Use this online tool to help find color and hue names. You can use almost any image editor to get hexadecimal codes, but this online tool is available too.
   
   
4. At the start of the page, add the Orientation template. Not all fields are necessary.
   
   
5. Fill in the fields marked by [ ].
   
6. Add orientations to the Related Terms table. Add subgenders to the Subgenders table. Add prefix and suffix variants to the Prefixes and Suffixes table.
   
   DIFFERENCES:
   
   Prefixes and Suffixes have the same name as the term plus a prefix or suffix (such as bisexual having bisexualflux).
   
   Subterms are labels that belong to the main term/umbrella and don't require their own page.
   
   Related Terms don't belong to the main term but are related (such as bigender being related to trigender). Unsure of what is related? Check what links to the page for inspiration. Related term relationships should remain as consistent as possible, using the following relationship types:
   • Similar - a version of the label that shares many qualities.
   • Opposite - a version of the label with opposing genders or concepts.
   • Counterpart - a version of the label with the same function but with different genders.
     • Take Achillean (Men loving Men) as an orientation example...
       • A similar term would be Vincian (Men loving Men).
       • An opposite term would be Turian (Non-Men loving Non-Men).
       • A counterpart term would be Sapphic (the woman counterpart is Women loving Women).
         
7. Input any Flags and Symbols information. Expand upon flag meanings if present. Create a gallery under Flags and Symbols. Any related or alternate flags that are not already in the page should be put here. Follow the usual image uploading process.
   
   
8. Begin adding citations using the Cite function in the editor. For each citation, either follow the MLA guidelines as paraphrased in Rules#Resourcing, or use the Cite template for web based sources. Add a citation for any information that is not common sense (such as statistics, term creation, history, etc.). Links to other internal pages do not need citations, including the Related Terms table.
   
   
9. For every prefix variant, suffix variant, and alternate name of the orientation, add a redirect using using this tool. Prefixes and Suffixes should ideally redirect to Pagename#Prefixes_and_Suffixes. All redirects should be categorized as per these redirect instructions.
   
   
10. Add the page to categories as appropriate, noting that pages should only be added to their lowest category points - meaning Caedsexual would be in Neurodivergent Orientation but not Orientation, as Neurodivergent Orientation is already in Orientation. See here for a reminder of the category tree, also keeping in mind the Maintenance category. If you're unsure of how to categorize it, place the page in the To Categorize category.
    
    
11. Tidy up any guide text (marked in italics). You're done! <3