3 Decks Acceptable Use Policy

Naval Warfare History Wiki in the Golden Age of Sailing (1650-1850)

 Welcome

• You have been given writting acess to the 3decks wiki site.
• You can use to practice with the editor the following test page: http://3decks.pbwiki.com/Test+Page
• You can use also the comment tool (at the bottom of each page) to leave opinions or doubts from a specific page.
• There are ship's templates for each nation to easily fill the data.
• There are tags & folders to group & organize pages. Each page can be at 1 folder and has 1 o more tags.
• Any questions you can email the administrators (members).

What is a Wiki? 

• Wiki is a public website tool for collaborative writing and data sharing.
• Every allowed user (with permissions), can edit or create any page on the wiki.
• Editing and creating is very simple, as a small text editor.
• Adds a powerfull text search engine (right-upper corner).
• Also, record changes, so a page can be reverted to any of its previous states.

The purpose of this site: 

• This is 1 person 100 years lifetime project. Instead we chase to become 100 persons 1 year project.
• This website has non profite or economic purpose at all.
• There are many books about sailing naval warfare that we can not buy or even read because of time and/or language.
• Our goal is to share all the data and history we find/know about naval warfare.

Rules & Norms for publishing: 

• English, for beeing the most international language, will be the standard of this wiki.
• Accents will be omitted from all names and english characters will be used as much as possible.
• Dates will be in Gregorian calendar style, ordered by year, month and day (1805-oct-21, 1805-10-21).
• Numbers (weitgh, length,...) will be written in english format. 1,265.74
• Units will be written as in the original source (ft.) and metrical (meters & kilos) in between parenthesis. 210' (59.82)
• Names of ships, places and people will be written in english, if possible, or with english characters.
• Each ship's page has his own national prefix to identify him, use the templates when creating one, is much easier.
• Spanish spelling rules:
  • Will use a double n (nn) instead of an ñ.
  • Ships called Nuestra Señora will be abreviated as N S.
• Portuguese spellling rules:
  • Ships called Nossa Senhora will be abreviated as N S.

Want to collaborate? 

• We please members to follow the data structure and methodology of workstyle as much as possible.
• The web is divided in nations & sections. There may be a member responsable, at least of one.
• This is done to avoid overwritting between members.
• We encourage members to collaborate among them, share data on nations & sections.
• Always record sources of data, if possible.
• Members can write when they can/want, we all have a job and a family.

How can I collaborate? 

• Comments button (one in each page) maybe usefull for visitors collaboration and notes.
• Searching the web for data from other sites (webs, forums,...).
• Using personal or public libraries to look for data.
• E-mail section's responsable with data to be published.
• Anybody who loves sailing warfare is welcome to join us.