Content and Formatting Guidelines

Topic Guidelines

YIMBYwiki encompasses issues of land-use, housing, transportation, development, and policy, with particular interest on:

1. questions of how communities can be more inclusive, equitable, liveable, and adaptable. 

2. gathering resources on existing and new responses to these issues, e.g. legislation,case studies.

3. developing a "pattern language" of core questions and issues in this field. I.e. "factoring" proposals and discussions into key distinguishable components, e.g. "Value capture," "local control". 

4. Finding key arguments, evidence, data, and citeable research / case-studies around core questions/issues identified in (3). 

Format Guidelines

1. Main Page 
2. YIMBYwiki editor problems - site editor has been causing issues with line breaks and space, see discussion here. 
3. [suggestion. -admin]. Pages should be labeled "Status: draft" until reaching a state of minimal completeness, then changed to "Status: published]. 
4. by default we plan to follow Wikipedia conventions, for example:
   • article names / URLS are made with initial word capitalized, subsequent words all-lower-case, unless the title is a proper noun commonly written capitalized.
   • display text for a link is usually the same as the target page name (eg "Inclusionary_zoning") except without the underscore characters. 

 

blank section because 3 items are needed to make Table of Contents appear

put something useful here