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Styleguide

Please find below guidelines on how to write texts and how to convert certain Chinese names in our RiC Wiki.


Contents

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Chinese-only names

A lot of Chinese artists, organizations, magazines, titles, etc. do not feature an English name. Rock in China has so far either translated their name into an adequate English translation or has stayed with the pinyin conversion.

In general the following naming rules apply:

  1. If an English name is available it should be used (e.g. Brainfailure)
  2. If an adequate English translation is available it should be used (e.g. The Falling, X-Music Magazine)
  3. If none of the above is available, the pinyin transcription should be used (e.g. Hu Ma Ge)

A list of so far used name conversions is stated below:

Chinese Pinyin English Name Name to be used in RiC
通俗歌曲 Tong Sú Ge Qǔ X-Music Magazine English name
我爱摇滚乐 Wo Ài Yáo Gǔn Yuè So Rock! Magazine / So Rock! Records English name (for magazine and label)

Using Pin Yin

In general if Pin Yin is writing for page names, please separate each individual character / tone by a space, e.g.:

Ye Cha instead of Yecha or

Zhong Li Feng instead of Zhong Lifeng

Usable Templates

In order to give similar kind of pages a similar appearance several template pages were generated for throughout usage:

Interlanguage Links

There are other projects in the world also looking at Rock in China and RiC is exclusively working with them to spread the news of Chinese rock:

Metalcon - German portal

Yaogun - Japanese portal

With the normal interwiki links (e.g. {{metalcon|hollow-chn-}} or {{yaogun|metal/hollow.htm}}) we will get links to the page and with the language prefixes (e.g. [[de:hollow-chn-]] or [[ja:metal/hollow.htm]]) we will get languages in the menu on the left (bottom). For Metalcon we need to use the last part of the URL. For Yaogun we need everything after yaogun.com/artist/

Chinese Names to be added as Redirects

As nearly every Chinese artist or venue has a Chinese (character) name in addition to their English translation, at RiC, we are adding the Chinese characters as redirects to the Artist Page (either titled in English or Pinyin), so that searching gets easier. Thereby the following additional categories for the redirect page are a minimum:

#REDIRECT [[ENGLISH BAND NAME]]

[[Category:Artists]]

[[Category:Artists (Chinese names)]]

Best would be if the redirect page sports the same categories as the artist page, so that each category will hold both the English name and the Chinese characters.

Formating

Used skins

Please note that currently there are a number of Skins being used by Rock in China, either as the subpages are being i-frame-included in another website or for other purposes (e.g. special sub-page or better readability).

Currently the following Skins are being used:


Skin Name Color Scheme Preview
Jazzy White, navy and indigo http://wiki.rockinchina.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=jazzy
Midi2008 dark grey (#333) and light green (#6FBE6B;) http://wiki.rockinchina.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=midi2008
Modern White and dark blue #036; http://wiki.rockinchina.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=modern
Strawberry Black, forestGreen and light green #A0CB3B; http://wiki.rockinchina.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=strawberry
Ric black & red http://wiki.rockinchina.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=ric
White white & red http://wiki.rockinchina.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=white

Hence in case hard or fixed formating via the <style> attribute is being used, take note of the above color schemes.


CSS class

Every skin in RiC wiki uses its own CSS file, usually called "Main2.css" in the respective skin folder.

There are a number of classes available for formating within the RiC wiki that can be used consistant throughout the individual skins without causing breakage in the style.

E.g. the following CSS class has been created for special pages headers:


Class Name Usage
menu-background-header Format for major page divider, i.e. headers as in Main Page
specialmessage used for special purpose messages
collapsibletemplate collapsible table at the bottom of any page, e.g. Template:Midi

menu-background-header

table.menu-background-header th {

background-color:#222;

}

specialmessage

div.specialmessage {

width:95%;

border:2px solid #0000aa;

background-color: #00005f;

padding:7px;

}

collapsibletemplate

div.collapsibletemplate {

border:2px solid #300;

padding:3px;

margin:3px;

}


div.collapsibletemplate table {

width:100%;

border-collapse:collapse;

border-width: 1px;

border-style: solid;

border-color: #100

}


div.collapsibletemplate table th {

background:#300;

}


Using collapsible tables

On various pages collapible tables are being used, e.g.:

You can either use a template, e.g.


{{Artist Location}}


to include the above or

write directly the code in the page that you want to have it included:


<div class=collapsibletemplate>

{| class="collapsible collapsed" border="1" cellpadding="2" ! colspan=2 | '''Origin of Artists'''

|-

| style="width:120px" | City Provinces:

| [[:Category:Beijing Artists|Beijing]] | ...

|-


Please note that the <div> element must have the class=collapsibletemplate defined in order for the format to be shown correctly.

To enable the collapsible characteristic, please ensure that the table {| has the class class="collapsible collapsed" associated.

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