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Welcome to the Cocoapedia!
Cocoapedia is the community encyclopedia for documenting information and facts about anything related to Mac OS and iOS application development. Cocoa and Cocoa Touch are Apple's frameworks for programming Mac OS and iOS applications. Information about 3rd party SDKs, frameworks and tools - which are of significance to Mac OS and iOS developers - are also documented here.
Popular Topics
- Jobs
- Developers, Trainers, Authors, Designers, Frameworks, Web Services
- Events, Conferences
- User Groups
- Development Companies, Training Companies
- Apps, their history and change information
- Components and their documentation, Open Source initiatives
- Books about Cocoa and other related topics
- Game Engines and Game Development Tools
- Utilities
How to use Cocoapedia
In short you can add anything that makes for a good keyword in an encyclopedia but does not meet relevancy criteria. To us developers those things are highly relevant.
The main keyword pages in Cocoapedia are not meant for:
- Tutorials
- Questions and Answers
- Excessive Advertising
- Anything that might no longer be of interest after a short while
There are a multitude of sites and blogs who dedicate themselves to that. The best places to get solutions are StackOverflow, the iPhoneDevSDK Forum as well as the official Apple developer forums.
This video shows how to add an article.
Style
While you are free to write just about anything related to application development for iOS and Mac OS please emulate the style you would find on an encyclopedia.
- if uncertain about the state of an existing page have a look at the discussion tab. Read other people's comments and share your own freely on the talk, discussion and community pages
- on these free form pages you should sign your comments with the short codes: three tildes = username, four tildes = username and time
- only use first person on your user page (that's the one with User:) or in discussions, a page about a person might be edited by multiple contributors and the reader might not know who the 'I' actually is.
- don't write relative dates. This site might be around many years, who knows what year is meant with "23 years ago".
- Also don't use We and add enthusiastic remarks on a keyword. We understand that you think your product is the best. To prove it you can add quotes from other sites with footnotes. Stick to the facts.
- the main content of keyword pages should be facts. If you want to discuss, do that on the discussion pages.
- where applicable use footnotes for hyperlinks that provider further support for facts. For example, if a person won a prize it would be good practice to add at least external source reporting on this fact.
- you never own a page. Any page might have multiple authors striving together to make it more concise. If somebody cleans up 'your entry' thank them on the discussion page.
- We are modeling our formatting after *pedia. Refrain from putting external links into the body of an article. Instead make a section "External links" at the bottom of it and put the links into a unnumbered list.
- By the same token please add content to any page that you feel needs improving. For example correct spelling mistakes if you find any.
- if you see vandalism or spam then take appropriate action
Getting started
- Create an entry for yourself with your full name, written in the third person.
- Put something in your user page, link to your person page.
- If you read something interesting check to see if the described entity already exists here. If not add it.
- Or add a stub for a topic you think is worthy of inclusion.
- If you reference a person or topic represented in Cocoapedia you can provide extra value to your readers by linking to the entry.
