Help:Formatting social media posts
In the typical fashion of documenting anything produced by Chris, the CWCki tries its best to compile and archive all of Chris's posts to his social media accounts (such as his Twitter/X, Facebook, and Bluesky). Once implemented, they can serve as a great source for references to be used for the rest of the wiki.
Of course, this means copying and pasting a massive amount of posts to their respective pages for each month and year, most of which could be considered boring or uninteresting, so a number of a posts are missing from the CWCki due to lack of interest or not being deemed notable enough.
However, you can help.
Anyone is welcome to become a CWCki editor. CWCki editors are free to edit and create the social media post articles. Here is a guide showing how it's done, which can also hopefully provide groundwork for basic policies for consistency throughout the archives. Having a basic grasp of the beginner guides for CWCki/wiki editing will help.
The rundown
In recent years, the CWCki will create an article for a particular month's social media posts, and it is titled as such (e.g. January 2025 social media posts). In these articles, Chris's posts are formatted in chronological order with contextual information (such as the date and time, what and who is being replied to, et cetera). This essentially boils down to copying and pasting the text of the posts into the CWCki's editing format for accessibility and readability, and occasionally adding in some commentary with text, piping, and/or images. You can see all of the 'social media posts' articles in this template right below that appears on the respective articles, which can be implemented by typing "{{Social media}}" into an article.
How it's done
A normal post
Here is an example of what a typical post section looks like, and how it's written in the correct format to appear on the CWCki.
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Post title, be creative and concise
24 February Posted to Chris's Bluesky.
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==Post title, be creative and concise==
24 February<br>
10:00 AM
Posted to Chris's Bluesky.
{{quotebox|Hello. This is fake Chris. A good starting place for formatting a post would be copying and pasting the post's text here inside the quotebox, replacing this example text.}}
{{quotebox|I often reply to my own posts in a chain of replies, often all posted at the same time. This can be expressed on the CWCki by separating the replies into separate quoteboxes, like this.}}
{{quotebox|Text representing Chris is often in blue, which is the color of the default quotebox, so it is used for Chris.
But I digress.}}
{{quotebox|Sometimes I like to post photos and other various images. Definitely feel free to upload them and use them here, like this, especially if it's interesting or relevant to the post's context.<br>
[[File:02 07 18 eye color 3.jpeg|300px]]}}
{{quotebox|General WikiMedia formatting can be useful to know for editing text inside and outside of the quoteboxes. As a good rule of thumb, use it to help make posts formatted on the CWCki as accurate and close as possible compared to their original counterpart.}}
{{quotebox|Thank you for reading.<br>
⚡️💙⚡️}}
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Once a post is added, it can now be used as a reference for the wiki. You can do so by typing out the reference template as normal, and insert the link to the specific post on the article using the title, like this: "<ref>[[February 20XX social media posts#Post title, be creative and concise]]</ref>".
A post in which there is conversation
Now that we went over how a regular post from Chris is added, we will go over posts that include Chris replying to other posts and multiple people posting. Here is a quick hypothetical demonstration of Chris replying to a random person's post.
| What it looks like | What you type | ||
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Chris leaves a reply
24 February Posted to Chris's Twitter.
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==Chris leaves a reply==
24 February<br>
10:30 AM
Posted to Chris's Twitter.
{{quoteboxgreen|speaker=FinnishFriends99|Fun Fact: [[Finland]] is an awesome country.}}
{{quotebox|speaker=Chris|That is so true.}}
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If the post interaction is as brief as above, the timing format (which tells the time of Chris's reply post) will likely suffice. However, when there are multiple replies with different times, the following is likely necessary. Pay attention to how the formatting of the times is done differently.
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Sonichu is fast
26 February Posted to Chris's Twitter.
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==Sonichu is fast==
26 February
Posted to Chris's Twitter.
{{quoteboxred|speaker=Sonichu's Biggest Fan|time=3:00 PM|[''Replying to [[February 20XX social media posts#Chris leaves a reply|an earlier post]].'']
Chris, are you alright? If a post is replying to something from a while ago, it's important to mention it like above, as it provides context (and there may be multiple post entries between the posts).}}
{{quotebox|speaker=Chris|time=3:20 PM|Yes, I am quite alright.}}
{{quoteboxred|speaker=Sonichu's Biggest Fan|time=3:25 PM|That's a relief. I have a question about [[Sonichu (character)|Sonichu]]: is he fast?}}
{{quotebox|speaker=Chris|time=5:02 PM|Obviously. DUH!!!!!!!}}
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The times of Chris's posts get priority, but it's also fine to write the time of others' posts as long as it's accurate. Also note that the times used on the CWCki are in Eastern Standard Time (the time zone in Virginia), so be sure to remember this when adding the times of posts.