WikiChristian:Page Layout

"Stub" pages that need work

There are plenty of pages that have only minimal content and require a lot of work. A link to the list of stubs can be found here: Stub

Starting A New Page

New pages can be created by following a link to a nonexistent page ("red link") or by editing the last part of the URL of another page in the same project. It is useful to create a page by following a link, or create links to the new page right after creating the page, to avoid the new page being isolated. You can search for any existing articles with the same or similar content and create a new page if none exists. In order to create a new page, go to any relevant existing pages, and enclose the word or words in double square brackets [[like this]] and the link will be displayed like this

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Style

When editing or creating a page, there are no set guidelines as to what the page should look like or how it should be laid out. The following are some ideas, but by no means prescriptive rules that need to be followed

Different sorts of pages may include

• Contents page of a topic
  • Why have contents pages? Why not make this like wikipedia? These are reasonable questions. If you are creating a page for a topic, you do not need to make a contents page. There are many advantages to a contents page for the topic however, including:
    • The page doesn't get absolutely enormous
    • People can write specific sub-page that contain opinions
    • If this was only meant to be an encyclopedia, then Wikipedia would suffice, and there would be no need for WikiChristian - having a contents page allows this to be more a text-book and forum for discussion than a plain encyclopedia
  • How to lay-out a contents page? If creatining or editing a contents page, one standardized approach could be as follows (for an example see the Grace contents page)
    • Start with a famous quote or a Bible quote
    • Then have a brief 2 or 3 sentence summary or definition of the subject
    • Then have a sub-heading Definitions / explanations followed by links to specific articles defining or explaining the topic
    • Then have a sub-heading Articles / opinions followed by (1) a link where people can write short comments and opinions about the topic and (2) links of longer opinion articles
    • Then have a sub-heading Quotes followed by links for famous quotes about the topic, and Bible quotes about the topic
    • Then have other miscellaneous sub-headings, depending on the topic, these may include: Travel stories, Testimonies, Songs about, Famous people etc...

Below, see an example of the code for a contents page. Click here to see how the page would look Sample contents page

{{box2 | text=''But the Lord said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness."   ([[2 Corinthians]] 12: 9)''}}


''In brief:'' grace is God's love poured out on undeserving humanity. All have fallen
short of the glory of God - all have sinned. Yet God loves us still. 
Nothing we do can restore us to a right relationship with God. 
It is only through faith in Christ, in his death and resurrection that we can return to God.''


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'''Definitions and explanations'''
* [[Summarising of Grace (extracts from Compass)]]
* [[The Christian teaching of Grace]]
* [[Prevenient Grace]]
* [[Divine Grace (wikipedia)]]
* [[Bible Dictionary: Grace]]


'''Articles / opinions'''
* [[Some short comments and thoughts on what Grace means by various users]]
* [[Grace - Justification by faith alone (By G.G.)]]


'''Quotes'''
* [[Bible quotes about Grace]]
* [[Famous quotes about Grace]]


'''Testimonies'''
* [[Stories of grace]]


'''Songs about grace'''
* [[Words to Amazing Grace|Words to the hymn ''Amazing Grace'']]
* [[Words to When I survey the wondrous Cross|Words to the hymn ''When I survey the wondrous Cross'']]


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Go to [[Justification, salvation and grace]] contents page

• Encyclopedia or dictionary style definition of a word
• Short comments page of a topic
• Opinion page explaining your particular viewpoint of a topic
• Quotes page with famous quotes about a topic or Bible qoutes about a topic
• Miscellaneous more speciliazed pages
  • These include
    • Pages related to the Song information and lyrics section including: Song lyrics; Song chords; About the song
    • Pages related to the Travel stories secttion including: Extracts from personal travellogues
    • Original uncopyrighted texts related to the Bible and Bible studies, sermons, commentaries and references such as the text of the World English Bible and Pilgrim's Progress and so on

However you decide to organize your page, the main thing is to try to keep its structure logical and the page easy to find. Good luck and thanks for contributing.