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This Wiki is supposed to be a contact point for people who don't know much, or anything about the Fediverse yet.

So especially the main page, What is the Fediverse? and other Beginners guides should be written in simple and easy to understand English.
Other pages in the category Category:Advanced are meant for advanced users, but should still be written as understandable as possible.

Guidelines

Please don't remove text or heavily rewrite it before talking about it in the corresponding talk page.
Please don't promote bigotry or "free speech" instances.

Style guide

Main article: Style guide

Example capitalization of Fediverse projects:

First letter in upper case	CamelCase	all lower case	special
Fediverse Mastodon Pleroma Lemmy Pixelfed Funkwhale	WriteFreely PeerTube BookWyrm GoToSocial ActivityPub	lemmur	diaspora*

Order of Fediverse projects in lists and tables:

Type	Original	Forks
Microblogging	Mastodon & forks	Mastodon
		Cordigon
		Ecko
		Fedibird
		Glitch-Soc
		Hometown
		koyu.space
		Smalltown
	Pleroma
	Misskey	Misskey
	Misskey	Calckey
	GNU Social
	GoToSocial
	Bonfire
Social Network	Friendica
	diaspora*
	SocialHome
	(streams)
Multi Purpose	Hubzilla
Blogging	WriteFreely
	Plume
	Wordpress
	?
Link Aggregation	Lemmy
Media	Pixelfed
	PeerTube
	Owncast
	Goldfish
	Funkwhale
	Castopod
	reel2bits
Book Cataloguing	BookWyrm
Professional Network	Flockingbird

Translation guide

Main article: Translation guide

Please:

use gender-inclusive language
only translate the English text & don't add information

Advocacy guide

Main article: Advocacy guide

We want to advocate for the Fediverse and it's projects here, not write in a neutral tone like Wikipedia.
On the beginners pages we do that by highlighting the benefits of the Fediverse, without going in too much detail about the horrors of traditional social media.
We can then go deeper in additional pages.

Mediawiki

The software this Wiki uses is MediaWiki, the same software Wikipedia uses. Special:Version indicates the current version, which may differ from the version any Wikipedia is using.

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

Special pages

Pages with the "Special:" prefix can be reached from a menu item in the sidebar. They cannot be edited in the normal way, but many of them are most informative.

Pages with the "MediaWiki:" prefix affect the working and appearance of this wiki and can be edited only by administrators. Edit those only if you know what you are doing.

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+Order of Fediverse projects in lists and tables:
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+!Type
+!Original
+!Forks
+|-
+|rowspan="14"|Microblogging
+|rowspan="8"|Mastodon & forks
+|{{Mastodon|Mastodon}}
+|-
+|Cordigon
+|-
+|Ecko
+|-
+|Fedibird
+|-
+|Glitch-Soc
+|-
+|Hometown
+|-
+|koyu.space
+|-
+|Smalltown
+|-
+|Pleroma
+|-
+|rowspan="2"|Misskey
+|Misskey
+|-
+|Calckey
+|-
+|GNU Social
+|-
+|GoToSocial
+|-
+|Bonfire
+|-
+|rowspan="4"|Social Network
+|Friendica
+|-
+|diaspora*
+|-
+|SocialHome
+|-
+|(streams)
+|-
+|Multi Purpose
+|Hubzilla
+|-
+|rowspan="4"|Blogging
+|WriteFreely
+|-
+|Plume
+|-
+|Wordpress
+|-
+|?
+|-
+|Link Aggregation
+|Lemmy
+|-
+|rowspan="7"|Media
+|Pixelfed
+|-
+|PeerTube
+|-
+|Owncast
+|-
+|Goldfish
+|-
+|Funkwhale
+|-
+|Castopod
+|-
+|reel2bits
+|-
+|Book Cataloguing
+|BookWyrm
+|-
+|Professional Network
+|Flockingbird
 |}