How to Contribute

Contributing to KhmerConnection

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Choose any username you like, without spaces. A real name, a nickname or a pen name are all fine.

Start with what you know

1. Read KhmerConnection:Scope and search for the subject before adding a page.
2. Open the existing page for editing, or copy an appropriate outline from KhmerConnection:Page starters.
3. Identify the subject, write a short neutral introduction and include an identifiable source.
4. Fill the useful infobox fields you know. Leave other fields blank.
5. Save your changes with a short edit summary.

A useful page can start with one paragraph and a source. You do not need to research every field or fill every section before contributing.

Use familiar wiki editing

New to editing a wiki? KhmerConnection:Editing basics walks through your first edit step by step, from finding the Edit tab to saving a correction, and explains how to undo anything that goes wrong.

Write article sections in ordinary text. Use the editor's heading, list and link tools, or ordinary wikitext. Add people, sponsors, related works, sources and access links as sentences or lists; there are no relationship records or reference IDs to set up.

For example, a film article can have a Credits section naming its director and writers, a Related works section linking its source book, and an Access section with a viewing link. People can be credited by name without creating biography pages.

For field values, consult the field dictionary. It explains common terms and spellings, such as Religious organization for a temple and United States rather than USA. The dictionary guides consistency; it is not a requirement to fill every field.

Write for readers

Describe the subject itself: its history, activities, people, places, work or traditions. Keep research tasks, missing-field reports, editing plans and personal assessments out of the article.

Write the way a museum label or a well-told history reads. State facts plainly and let the footnote show where they come from; name a source in the sentence only for a claim or an opinion, such as an organization calling itself the first of its kind. Tell histories and programs as short paragraphs in time order rather than as lists of dates or goals. Use the past tense for events that have happened, and give a year to anything that may change. Leave out mission statements, follower counts and instructions to readers.

Write from within the community, as someone who knows it well. Avoid words like exotic, mysterious or ancient used for effect, and do not explain Khmer life as if it were foreign.

On first mention, give a Khmer name as the English name, the Khmer script and the romanization, for example Water Festival (បុណ្យអុំទូក, Bon Om Touk). Use the romanization the community commonly uses. Khmer text is welcome even if you are unsure of the spelling; stewards and volunteers review new Khmer text over time.

The Khmer Rouge years belong in a page's history, not its opening, unless the page is about them. Never minimize them: give the scale of the loss and its effect on the community in concrete, sourced terms. Where a subject is disputed, such as a border or a political question, state each position and who holds it.

Use American spelling and dates written as September 13, 2026. Keep sentences short and plain so that readers of every generation, and future translators, can follow them. See KhmerConnection:How we write, and why for the ten rules every page follows.

Use useful sections and remove empty or inapplicable ones. Organizations may need History, Programs and services, Community, and Sources; contact details belong in the infobox. Temples can include Annual observances and events; restaurants can include Dishes and menu; places people visit can include Visiting. Add Funding, Leadership or Partnerships only when there is specific information to present.

Distinguish uncertainty where it helps readers, such as a historical address or unresolved identity. Do not describe failed searches or technical access problems. Cite an identifiable source rather than referring vaguely to “the page” or “the article.”

Books and films

Use the Book or Film outline. A title, short introduction and source are enough to start; other fields can be left blank.

Keep a book and its film adaptation on separate pages, adding (book) and (film) to page titles when needed. Link them in Related works using an ordinary wiki link. Authors, directors and other credited people do not need separate biography pages.

Use the book and film dictionary for common form, language and year conventions. Put edition-specific publication details and ISBNs in Publication and editions; explain which edition an identifier describes.

Browse Books or Films. Write access links in an Access section, stating relevant conditions when known.

Traditions and music

Use the Tradition or music release outline. A name, short introduction and source are enough to start; other fields can be left blank.

Keep a practice separate from the organizations that teach or host it and from a particular year's event. Link them with ordinary wiki links, and describe regional and family differences as variation rather than ranking.

For a release, list tracks as an ordinary list and write songwriters, arrangers and guest performers as ordinary text. A track does not need its own page, and neither does a performer.

Use the traditions and music dictionary for practice types, occasions and release types. Browse Traditions or Music releases.

Firsthand knowledge of a practice is welcome when it is clearly attributed, including family and community variations that are not written down elsewhere.

Oral histories and collections

Use the Collection or recording outline. A name, a holding institution, a short introduction and a source are enough to start; other fields can be left blank.

KhmerConnection indexes oral histories. It does not hold recordings, stream them or grant access to them, so write about where material is held and how a visitor can ask to use it rather than implying the wiki supplies it.

Copy identifiers exactly as the catalog prints them, including leading zeros and punctuation. Keep the catalog name, item number, collection context and link together in one sentence or bullet, and list recording, transcript and finding-aid links separately when they differ.

Name the narrator and the interviewer in their own fields and do not guess which role a person held. Keep the recording date separate from the historical period a narrator discusses, and put that period in ordinary prose.

Write enough description that the entry stays useful if a link later disappears. Use the collections and recordings dictionary for recording types, and browse Collections or Recordings.

Creators

Authors, filmmakers, musicians, tradition bearers, master practitioners, chefs, craftspeople, scholars and oral historians can have their own page once this site already documents at least one of their works. A tradition, collection or recording counts, so a chapei master or a dance teacher qualifies the same way an author does.

Write a brief introduction, list the works, and link the creator's own site or the sources that document them. A creator page is not a promotional page and not a biography: it describes what someone has made.

Please leave out birth dates, birthplaces, family details and contact information, and do not add a claim about a living person that a source does not support. If you are unsure whether something belongs, leave it out and mention it on the talk page.

Add the creators field to each work so it appears on the creator's page automatically.

Sources and access links

Cite each claim with a footnote placed after it, using <ref></ref>, and add a References section containing <references />. A footnote can hold an external link with a descriptive label, or a bibliographic citation for a printed source. Sources that support infobox values but are not cited in the text can be listed under a Sources heading below References. You may include an actual ISBN, catalog number or registration number exactly as it appears in the source.

Keep different destinations clear. A catalog describes an item; a recording link plays it; a transcript provides text. List them separately with ordinary labels such as Catalog record, Recording or Transcript. State access conditions only when known.

For scholarships and grants, identify the application cycle and link to the application information. A link does not mean applications are currently open.

See KhmerConnection:References and access for examples.

Dishes and family recipes

A Dish page describes the food and links to preparations. A Recipe page describes one preparation. Fill the Recipe's dish field with the parent Dish page title; the standard Dish outline includes the recipe list.

Family surnames and a public family label are optional. Ask permission before publishing names or stories. Identical surname pairs do not mean that two recipes come from the same household; distinguish the pages by their titles and descriptions rather than a family ID.

Write ingredients, quantities, steps and family context in ordinary sections. Use Recipe available when instructions are supplied, otherwise Partial instructions. Do not invent cooking times, testing claims or regional origins.

Rights, privacy and disagreements

Use public organizational contact information. Do not publish personal addresses, phone numbers, emails or family stories without permission. Upload photographs and recordings only when you own the relevant rights or have an appropriate license or permission.

Avoid marketing language, rumors, political endorsements and unsupported allegations. Discuss disagreements on the article's talk page and cite the evidence. Contact a steward through Special:Contact for help or recurring spam and vandalism.