In this guide, we will show you how to upload or submit your stories in our site. This is the fundamental instructions on how you can submit your stories in the site.
If you are a first-timer, we suggest to start knowing the basic functions of the wiki. As you probably know, A wiki is simply an editable webpages. But not all wikis are like this, but you can also create pages as you want. This is the real spirit of the Rystories Wiki. All are welcome to create their stories with no limitations.
However, some wikis are edited through rich text — i.e, formattings are seen visually like Microsoft Office — but some wikis may be edited through markup languages. If you never done coding on yourself, you can checkout the Quick Reference page of Wikidot.
If you are already familiar of the basics, that's good! you can now proceed to the next step, and that is the writing your story using the Sandbox page. Using the page will allow you to experiment a lot formattings you want, but also you will be able to paste images (please see 'Uploading an image' section.). And speaking of images, there is a file limitations. Remember when we said that they are no limitations? There is only one. And that is the storage level. In Wikidot, there is only 300 MB storage only. Adding files in your page is going to be mentioned later.
So without a futher a do, let's get started.
Story criteria
To start off, there are some criteria involved before you can submit your story.
- For novel-type stories, this must only within 100,000 word count.
- For fanfiction, any kind are allowed. Is it like Creepypasta? That's all up to you.
- It should have a consistent genre or storyline. A jumbled or unorganized story idea is subjected to downvotes and later deleted.
- Page layout is really up to you. However, you are not allowed to change the theme. (This is only allowed for the SCP Foundation.)
When writing chaptered-type stories, you should use a separate page to create new set of chapters. Use some navigation system like this:
< Chapter one | Chapter two >Creating one of these will help your readers get into your next chapters beyond. (Designing this interface is really up to you.)
What stories are allowed
Story-making freedom is the heart of this site. You can write any stories you want in anything you like. Do you want your own original story? Is it fanfiction? Anything is possible.
For original stories
Either a novel-type story or a single short stories are quite fine. The only concerns that you are going to take is the genre of the story.
Another problem for this one is company names. It is not allowed to put any real life business names like Ford, McDonalds or anything similar. This violates the trademarks of those company. Even the registered trademarks. Making your own vesrsion is fine, but be aware we're not responsible for such violations. If you have other concerns, please see our forums.
For fanfiction
A fanfiction can be an alternate universe or a lore. The franchises like, Five Nights at Freddy's, My Little Pony or something, is something you are really going to transform.
File uploading
In typical storywriting, most of the context are supported by images. Not just images, but also audio voiceovers as well. To upload a file, here some of the basic steps:
Uploading an image
An image should be at least 300 square pixels of size. However, if it is not possible, you can use other resolution, as long as it doesn't stretched out on the side of the page. Any kind of images can be uploaded, but make sure that do not use a 1 MB of image file size. Doing so can lead to storage overloading of the wiki.
To insert the image, use the following property:
[[image ImageFile width="300px"]]Please note that there is no need to place the "height" property class in the string. The width and height is locked together.
Uploading an audio or video
Similar thing. Ensure that the filesize does not exceed 1 MB or higher. The only difference is how you could place it. Unlike mentioned above, this requires to be running on an HTML format. To do this use the [[html]] tag to insert the HTML format into the page. Next, follow the illustration below:
[[html]]
<audio width="width" controls>
<source src="AudioFile">
<audio>
[[/html]]Type in the audio or video filename in the "src" tag as shown by the placeholder. To change from video, simply replace "audio" to "video".
File copyright protection (Copyright licensing)
To keep the protection of the file you are uploading, you are given the basic use of copyright. So, what is copyright? A copyright is simply protects your file from being copied without your prior permission. This means the people around you will ask you to redistribute the content according to your conditions.
However, this is very tedious and inefficient because approvals may take longer than expected. To solve this problem, a copyright license is used in every content to redistribute the content under conditions swiftly.
To learn more about copyrighting, we made a separate page to explain it in detail.
Licenses
Here are the licenses that you may need:
Creative Commons
Creative Commons licenses are free copyright licenses made by Creative Commons. The list of license in Creative Commons are listed below:
- Attribution 4.0 - Attribution means that the redistributor must credit from you when the content is distributed.
- Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 - Means that the redistributor must credit from you when the content is distributed, but the license must be retained.
- Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 - Means that the redistributor must credit from you when the content is distributed, but cannot be redistributed for commercial use. (This is not allowed because it has a lot of restrictions.)
- Attribution-NonDerivs 4.0 - Means that the redistributor must credit from you when the content is distributed, but must not make derivatives out of it.1 (This is not allowed because it has a lot of restrictions.)
Mixed type licenses:
Mixed type licenses are licenses that are mixed together. Thus, it gives it more copyright efficiency. (This is not allowed because it has a lot of restrictions.)
- Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 - Means that the redistributor must credit from you when the content is distributed, but the license must be retained and must not redistributed for commercial purposes.
- Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 - Means that the redistributor must credit from you when the content is distributed, but cannot be redistributed for commercial purposes and must not make derivatives on it.
The following is a non-public domain type licenses. For public domain licenses, you can use CC0 Public Domain licenses instead.
Note
All government-uploaded images must be all public domains. If the government-uploaded images are present, they are also licensed to the United States versions of the Public Domain license.
For details, please see their documentation page.
GNU (Licenses)
For licenses in GNU, here are some of the licenses that we allow:
- GNU Free Documentation License
- Version 1.2
- Version 1.3
For details, please see their documentation page.