Help:How to start an LDI

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Here are some instructions about starting and developing an LDI. If you don't know what an LDI is, please read The LDI concept

Don't know what to start? Take a look at the Proposed LDIs

Contents 1 Step 1 - create your page 2 Step 2 - Give your LDI a good structure 3 Step 3 - Use the tools 3.1 Part A: About the projects 3.1.1 Goals 3.1.2 Subprojects 3.1.3 Discussions 3.2 Part B: Past 4 Step 4 - Publicize your LDI 5 While your project grows

[edit] Step 1 - create your page

If you want to start an LDI you just have to choose the name of your project and create the page:

In the new page you'll have this:

{{LDI|
name          = your project's name
|logo         = your logo's name (with extension)
|startingdate = the project's starting date
|category     = your project's category
|language     = your project's language
|locality     = your project's locality
}}

Input your data (your project's name and so on) instead of the instructions.

After this you may:

• Describe your project.
• Click on "save page"
• Go to New LDIs and add to the list the link to your page - that's it

You just started a project!

Now you're suggested to do some other things in order to let your LDI be ready to start developing.

[edit] Step 2 - Give your LDI a good structure

You don't have strictly to follow everyone of thise points. But they may be useful for a project that has to start.

After the description of the project, you can put this sections:

• Part A: About the project, may include
  • Main goals
  • Discussion
  • Subprojects
• Part B: Past
  • Story of the project, reached goals, resolved questions...
• Part C: Present
  • Actual status of the project
• Part D: Future
  • Short-term and long-term goals
• Part E: Documentation
  • Contributors
  • Links to forums and websites...

Use the discussion page for discussion about the project. For more specific discussions, create subpages.

See also the Example

[edit] Step 3 - Use the tools

Inside of the different sections you created you can use different tools.

[edit] Part A: About the projects

[edit] Goals

Here you can use the goal tool. The goal tool looks this way:

Goal -

This is a goal of an LDI

If you want to add a goal, write this:

{{go|The goal}}

and instead of 'The goal' write the goal you want to add.

[edit] Subprojects

If your LDI contains more little projects, create them with the subproject tool:

Subproject -

Subproject - This links to the subproject of this page

You can use it by writing this:

{{up|Name of the subproject|Description of the subproject}}

[edit] Discussions

Sometimes, in an LDI, you'll have to discuss about something. The best is to create a subpage where to discuss it. You can do it with the discussion tool:

Discussion -

Discussion - This is a link to the discussion

If you want to use it, write:

{{ds|Name of the discussion|Description of the discussion}}

[edit] Part B: Past

Resolved points can be signed with the Done tool:

Done -

This has been done Done by: who did it Other info

And you can use it by writing:

{{dn|what has been done|by=who did it|Other info}}

If nobody did it, you don't have to write it. This will be shown:

Done -

This has been done Other info

The toolbar is a template where the tools are listed, you can see it also in the Tools page:

Tools Statement: {{st|statement}} Quoted statement {{st/sc|statement|source}} Goal: {{go|goal}} Info: {{in|name|description}} Subproject: {{up|name|description}} LDI: {{op|name|description}} Member: {{mb|name|what he does}} To-do: {{td|title|who it is assigned|More info}} Done: {{dn|title|who did it|More info}} Milestone: {{ml|date|description}} Proposal: {{pr|proposal|who proposes}} Question: {{qu|question|who asks}} Messages: {{ms|sender|message|receiver}} Info at Tools

[edit] Step 4 - Publicize your LDI

It's in the interests of everyone that your project grows. If more people watch this wiki, more projects and unhoped things will be possible. This means that if you want people joining your LDI, now while this wiki is small, you can just wait that it happens (which means, the whole wikia has to get known, and not just your LDI), or you will have to make your project well-known: add the link to it in other websites, in forums which have related topics, in blogs and so on. Just, don't spam. It's useless. Tell it to your friends, to other people, maybe they will want to start an other LDI. That's good as well: more people will watch this wikia, more people will be able to see your LDI.

Also inside of this wikia, you can publicize your LDI. Add a description of it on this page: Publicized LDIs.

[edit] While your project grows

Everything on a page could get to much. To keep some order in the wikia, make subpages. You can make subpages in this way. If [[This]] is the link to your LDI, [[This/subpage]] is the link to your new subpage.

How you can split the main page of you LDI:

• Create a story archive subpage (a page like YourLDI/Story)
• Create a separated memberlist (for ex. YourLDI/Members)
• Create subprojects (for example with the up tool)
• Create discussion subpages (for example with the ds tool)
• Try other ways

You are adviced to keep the actual things on the LDI main page, and to put just archived data in subpages.

If all this isn't enough, you can

• Create a subproject

The subproject will be related to yours, but has to be considered as an independent one.

• Divide the project in sisterprojects

Again you have two different LDIs, that have similar purposes, that can cooperate or get totally independent from each other.