Come contribuire

Thank you for your interest in contributing to the Theonomy Wiki! Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with our understanding of how God's law applies today. Check out the Introduction to Theonomy or the helpful list of Books and other resources. Also take a moment to read the Chicago Statement on Biblical Hermeneutics, which describes a set of basic hermeneutic assumptions which we seek to employ here.

Who should contribute

If you are not in sympathy with Theonomy or Kuyperian Transformationalism, we request that you refrain from adding interpretive content, but you are welcome to contribute to improve pages' conformance to the structural mode of the wiki, correct grammatical errors, or to express dissenting opinions respectfully in the Talk/Discuss pages for any part of the site.

Site Structure

In order to gain an understanding of the method and structure which this site aims to achieve, please review some of the passages which have already been added. A good chapter to review is Genesis 2, which has some links to passage pages for a command and some principles.

Theonomy wiki can be conceptually divided into three parts. The Books of the Law are the backbone of the site. The books are divided into their chapters, and within each chapter, verses are grouped into passages which attempt to convey an atomic command or concept which can be categorized into topics and explained in terms of their place in the Functional Categorization of the Law.

Each passage page should contain a link to every immediately relevant topic.

For example, the passages which relate to marriage should all have links to the Marriage topic, and the Marriage topic contains links to every verse that relates to it. It is the same with the functional division of the law. Each passage page should have a link to its relevant Functional Division(s). In addition, every topic should have a link to it listed in the List of Topics.

Every topic should also contain links to closely-related topics. For example, Sexuality and Homosexuality are closely related topics, and should link to one another, so that a reader can easily obtain a complete picture of all related data.

While the site is in its beginning stages of development, topic pages and functional division pages will be long lists of links to passages. Later on, when the whole law has been combed and categorized, we will go back through every topic and generate a comprehensive explanation for the topic, exhaustively harmonizing all relevant verses, and providing multiple interpretations wherever Theonomists disagree about a passage.

Steps to contribute

If you have some interpretive content you want to add to a page...

If the interpretive content is either commonly acknowledged by Theonomists, or is advocated by a published Theonomist who you can cite, feel free to add the content. If you aren't sure whether the content is consistent with Theonomy and Theonomic thought, feel free to talk about it in the Talk/Discuss pages for the page in question, or ask about it in a forum about Theonomy (such as the Facebook group, Theonomy Q&A) before you post it. Having gained such confidence, feel free to post the content in the interpretation section for its passage, or in the relevant topic page.

If you see a relevant passage which hasn't been linked to a passage page...

1. In the Chapter where the passage is displayed, convert a contiguous section of relevant verses into a link for a new passage page
   • If the passage contains just one verse, you may link that verse independently and directly by clicking on the measuring scales near the verse.
   • If the passage contains more than one verse, then hover over the arrow near the first verse to reveal a dialog for making a passage page spanning multiple verses. Type the number of the last verse in that dialog and press the "create" button to generate a page for those verses.
   • Do not group non-contiguous verses into a single passage page.
   • If you make a link to a passage which hasn't been linked before, use the full name of the book in your link (i.e. "Genesis" rather than "Gen" or "Gn").
2. Save your changes, and click the newly linked passage to create the page and begin editing it.
3. The template content will be added automatically. Modify the template content to match the specific details of the passage.

If you see an existing passage which is relevant to a topic, but the topic doesn't exist yet...

Double-check the List of Topics to confirm that the topic doesn't exist yet.

• If the topic exists,
  • Modify the passage page to include a link to that topic and a justification for its inclusion in the topic, and
  • Add that passage page to the topic (see instructions below)
• If the topic does not exist
  • Modify the passage to include a link to the new topic.
  • Add a link to the new topic to the List of Topics
  • Create the page for the new topic
  • In the new topic page, include the following:
    • A link to the List of Topics
    • A brief description of the topic
    • A list of all relevant verses
    • You may also include a Theonomic interpretation of the topic, taking into account the list of verses

Aggiunta di collegamenti a un argomento a un passaggio

Se desideri inserire collegamenti visibili quando modifichi l'origine della pagina, tieni presente quanto segue:

Vogliamo che le nostre informazioni siano utili nel maggior numero di lingue possibile. Il sito tradurrà automaticamente alcune cose, come i titoli delle pagine, se sono collegati correttamente. Quindi, invece di scrivere:

[[:Category:Murder]]

devi scrivere:

{{:Translink|Category:Murder}}

che produrrà in questo modo:

Murder

Notare i due punti iniziali (:) nel markdown sopra.

Aggiunta di una pagina a un passaggio

Se desideri che una pagina di passaggio sia elencata in una categoria (ad esempio Murder), puoi utilizzare gli elenchi a discesa delle categorie sotto l'editor della pagina per navigare fino all'argomento che desideri aggiungere e selezionarlo per l'inclusione nel pagina che stai modificando.

Se vedi argomenti ridondanti (lo stesso argomento con due nomi diversi)

1. . Leggi entrambi gli argomenti per confermare che sono effettivamente ridondanti.
2. . Menzionalo nelle pagine di discussione per uno o entrambi gli argomenti, oppure segnalalo a un Amministratore.

Due argomenti ridondanti dovrebbero avere i loro contenuti attentamente combinati in una delle pagine degli argomenti, quindi una delle pagine dovrebbe essere convertita in un reindirizzamento alla pagina in cui risiederà il contenuto combinato.

Se due argomenti sono molto simili tra loro, ma non sono, in senso stretto, ridondanti, devono contenere collegamenti tra loro.