Style Guide

This is the Style Guide for this Wiki. To keep the Wiki uniform, please follow these guidelines.

Deployments

Deployment titles:

• For titles follow this format: [Company name] [Technology Type] deployment in [City] OR [Country] (For example: Briefcam Video Analytics deployment in Amsterdam)
• Deployment titles should be precise and concise, and an adequate description of the deployment itself.
• Capitalize the initial letter but otherwise follow sentence case.
• Do not capitalize the second or subsequent words in an article title, unless the title is a proper name.
• Avoid ambiguous abbreviations.
• Do not place definite or indefinite articles (the, a, and an) at the beginning of titles unless they are part of a proper name (for sorting reasons).
• When using city names, and the city is not the most known/biggest city with that specific name, add a descriptive characteristics such as the state or the countries in brackets after the city name. (e.g. Cambridge (MA) for an deployment in Cambridge in Massachusetts.)

Free text

• The free text should be used to explain a deployment in more detail and to write a short narrative of the deployment.
• Before blockquotes give a short description about the importance of the quoted text.
• Blockquotes should explain the deployment in more detail and should contribute to the narrative of the deployment.
• Blockquotes do not need to be translated but a short summary should be given before the blockquote if the blockquote is not in English.

Uncertain Information

• Uncertain information should be characterised as either rumoured or speculative. (Refer to the How to section)
• Include a short description about why the information is uncertain and describe possible speculations concisely. Possibly connect the deployments to other deployments/products/institutions/databases

Cities

• Cities should be named according to their official names.
• Cities, for which the English name differs from the original name, use the English name (e.g.The Hague instead of Den Haag)
• Cities, which are not the biggest/most known city with that name, add an identifying characteristic such as the state or the countries in brackets. (e.g. Cambridge (MA))

Countries

• Use the English language country name instead of the official country name (e.g. Germany instead of Federal Republic of Germany)

Institutions/Products/Databases

• Use the full name of an institution/products/database instead of its abbreviation. You can add the abbreviation in brackets behind the full name.
• Creating a governmental organisation, include the English country name (German Ministry of Foreign Affairs instead of Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

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