Don't Panic! Wiki



Welcome to the Don't Panic! Wiki
An inclusive place to find layman-friendly answers regarding many subjects. The source of the content is Reddit's famous "Explain It Like I'm Five" reddit, where people can ask all kinds of questions and expect to get answers simple enough to understand for someone who has little or no experience in the subject.

You are welcome to bring the best content from http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/ as long as the author is properly attributed. If you have questions for which you would like ELI5 answers, please post them on Reddit. If you like the answers you receive, you're welcome to create a page for your question and paste the best answers.

Where to start
The Five-Year-Old's Guide to the Galaxy would be a good place.

Editing guidelines
Create at least three main headings (using Heading 2): Details, Best answer, and Contributions. If needed, add other headings, such as Notes where you might wish to rewrite the best answer without curse words or with better formatting or write your own opinion on the subject, etc.

For the best Reddit experience, remember to use Reddit Enhancement Suite (also called RES)

Details
Should contain the title of the submission on the first line, the text of the submission following it, and two bullet points - first one linking to the question ("Question") and the second one to the answer and the author ("Answer by /u/author").

Best answer
Should be the best answer chosen by voters - and you. It doesn't have to be the one with the most upvotes, but it should be the one that gives the best LI5 answer to the question. At the end, link to the answer ("Source").

Contributions
Add a heading for each contribution (using Heading 3). Each heading should be /u/contributor and should link to the wiki page of that user (even if it doesn't exist yet). This is to be followed by the Reddit comment and at the end a link to the comment ("Source"). If the contribution is a reply to a parent comment but doesn't quote it, quote it yourself so the comment will make sense to the wiki reader.

Formatting
Try to format the wiki as close as possible to the Reddit comments' formatting. Each Reddit comment has a link below it called "source" (at least it should have one, if you are using RES) which might help you in some situations. That link will load the source of the comment before it was formatted. Remember to always click on the Source tab in the wiki editor and then back on Visual before publishing your page. Sometimes things can get really messed up in the wiki editor and that will fix them (sometimes even break things that work, but that shouldn't happen too often).

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