User blog:LOTRMod/Standardization/Standardisation

Hello everyone,

We admins (well mostly Sinthoniel, Glaerdir and I) noticed many problems with the wiki recently, and we are trying to improve them. The new home page icons was one small example of this. Sinthoniel is also working on a new project which will help biome-related pages a lot.

Something else we noticed is that lots of articles tend to vary in the language they use. This is seen mostly on armo(u)r pages. Some people say Armor (American English) and some say Armour (British English).

This variation is not good. A wiki should have a consistent style to make it as well-organi[s|z]ed as possible. And obviously, since you all come from different places in the world, you're all going to write some words in different ways. So we need to have an official style guide to standardi[z|s]e this.

The question, then, is: should we choose American or British English?

Points in favor of American English: Points in favour of British English: Therefore I think the case is stronger for British English.
 * Most people editing the wiki have probably learned American English (since the US is larger than the UK and has more influence in the world)
 * From what I've seen it looks like American English is currently used more on the wiki, so it would be less work to keep it that way (this is not a very good reason)
 * Minecraft's default language is in American English
 * J.R.R.Tolkien was British, and therefore, so is LOTR
 * The LOTR wiki seems to prefer British English - a quick search turned up about twice as many mentions of 'armour' as it did 'armor'
 * Tolkien Gateway, probably the more 'canon' wiki, also prefers British English, and even more so
 * All the official documentation of the mod (changelog, forum post, Facebook posts, etc.) is in British English

Dicuss?