Wiki Writing Advice

When I started with the first wiki article, there were no rules/standards to adhere to - except for my experience as a Wikipedia author some years previous. Many of the Wikipedia rules and guidelines do not apply, because this wiki is not meant to be an encyclopedia.

While at first I created content into a void, there is quite a body of connected juggling patterns there now and it becomes time to standardize some things to make orientation on a page simpler. Obviously there will be older pages that do not adhere.

Wikipedia-like rules

One wikipedia rule still applies:

• stubs (very short entries) are ok when they provide useful information, but pure placeholders are not

Example: e.g. I have added lists of siteswaps for juggling patterns that fit the scheme of the categorization but that I have not done, but I would not just create a page that says "I want to write about manipulator patterns here" without any useful info.

Juggling Pattern Page Structure

A page describing a juggling pattern should have the following sections:

• Pre-requisite patterns "Patterns to do before this one"
• Pattern Description

This gives the sequence for A and B and says who throws cross or straight passes and how they start and shows an animation via a template that uses code from passist.org and also links directly to passist.org. (Thanks to Christian, having that feature helped a me a lot)

• "Patterns to do next"

Pre-requisite and "next" patterns must share similarities with the pattern described on the page.

Compatible Patterns

Of course I am aware, that compatible patterns can just as easily be computed by a program or app (as many or even all of the siteswap things on the pages are)

At the moment (start of 2026), there are several ways compatible patterns are treated/included:

• via a "family" relationship e.g. a lot of the why nots are compatible and I included more compatible patterns with the family - or the zapnips were designed/calculated by me as compatible patterns to selfless-passing patterns and are described together
• on the pattern page itself

But there often are a *lot* of compatible patterns and I am thinking, if there should be dedicated "compatible patterns" pages that can be referenced from each page and avoid repeating the same list on every pattern.

Multi Language

Multi-lingual mediawikis are kind of difficult to set up and maintain and I want the wiki to be able to continue even in case something happens to me.

So - at least for now - if non-English translations of a page are made, they will appear as sub-pages to the English page, keeping everything in a single mediawiki instance.

Images

I managed to get all images on the starting page to be of a same style just recently (Jan 2026). All future pictures added should try to stay in the same style