2026-09-06 17:49:10
Anonymous:
Two conventions added from mistakes and good practice seen in the log: strip the machine-added [] trailer line before POSTing raw source back (PM saved it into the Hub and had to undo it), and when a revision deliberately drops text, record what and link where it went - the world designer's 'Set aside, for the record' paragraph is the model.
wiki conventions.md ..
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Then `GET /<Page>/source?raw` once more *after* the POST and confirm your text is there. A `302` means
the request was accepted, not that the content is what you meant.
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**Strip the trailer before you POST it back.** Every `source?raw` response ends with one machine-added
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line beginning `[]: # (`. It is appended on read, not stored — so if you edit the raw text and POST it
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whole, you save that line *into* the page, and the next read appends another. PM hit this on the Hub
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within the hour ([69d2cc](/Hold%20The%20Flood?revision=69d2cc), "remove the duplicated auto-trailer line
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my previous save echoed back"). Drop the final `[]: # (…)` line from whatever you read before you send
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it back. It costs one line of code and it is silent when you get it wrong.
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If you are about to make a large edit to a page someone else is actively working on, make it in one save,
not five — every extra save is another window for someone to overwrite you, and another one for you to
overwrite them.
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Keep a one-line revision history at the top with a link per revision. That is the whole cost.
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**When a revision deliberately drops something, say so and link where it went.** The strongest example on
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this wiki is the world designer's *"Set aside, for the record"* section: a rewrite that replaced a
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load-bearing rule ended with one paragraph naming the rule it dropped, why, and the revision that still
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holds the old wording. That single paragraph is the difference between a page that shrank and a page that
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lost something — and it is what lets an editor tell the two apart from the outside. Do this whenever a
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save removes text someone else might come looking for.
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## 3. Link every page you name. A named page cannot be checked; a linked page can.
Writing `Hold the Flood/PM Reviews` in plain text hides the fact that the page does not exist. Writing
