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| − | + | ==General== | |
| + | To edit a page, click on the "'''Edit this page'''" (or just "'''edit'''") link at one of its edges. | ||
| − | + | After adding to or changing the wikitext it is useful to press "Preview", which produces the corresponding webpage in your browser but does not make it publicly available yet (not until you press "Save"). Errors in formatting, links, tables, etc., are often much easier to discover from the rendered page than from the raw wikitext. | |
| − | + | If you are not satisfied you can make more changes and preview the page as many times as necessary. Then write a short edit summary in the small text field below the edit-box and when finished press "Save". Depending on your system, pressing the "Enter" key while the edit box is not active (i.e., there is no typing cursor in it) may have the same effect as pressing "Save". | |
| − | + | == Dummy edit == | |
| − | + | If the wikitext is not changed no edit will be recorded and the edit summary is discarded. | |
| − | + | A dummy edit is a change in wikitext that has no effect on the rendered page. This allows an edit summary, and is useful for correcting a previous edit summary, or an accidental marking of a previous edit as "minor" (see below). Also it is sometimes needed to refresh the cache of some item in the database. | |
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== Minor edits == | == Minor edits == | ||
| − | + | When editing a page, a logged in user has the option of flagging the edit as a "minor edit". When to use this is somewhat a matter of personal preference. The rule of thumb is that an edit of a page that is spelling corrections, formatting, and minor rearranging of text should be flagged as a "minor edit". A major edit is basically something that makes the entry worth relooking at for somebody who wants to watch the article rather closely, so any "real" change, even if it is a single word. This feature is important, because users can choose to ''hide'' minor edits in their view of the [[Special:Recentchanges|recent changes]] to keep the volume of edits down to a manageable level. | |
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| − | The | + | The reason for not allowing a user who is not logged in to mark an edit as minor is that vandalism could then be marked as a minor edit, in which case it would stay unnoticed longer. This limitation is another reason to log in. |
| + | == The wiki markup == | ||
In the left column of the table below, you can see what effects are possible. In the right column, you can see how those effects were achieved. In other words, to make text look like it looks in the left column, type it in the format you see in the right column. | In the left column of the table below, you can see what effects are possible. In the right column, you can see how those effects were achieved. In other words, to make text look like it looks in the left column, type it in the format you see in the right column. | ||
| − | You may want to keep this page open in a separate browser window for reference. | + | You may want to keep this page open in a separate browser window for reference. If you want to try out things without danger of doing any harm, you can do so in the [[HRwiki:Sandbox|Sandbox]]. |
| − | + | === Sections, paragraphs, lists and lines === | |
| − | <!-- | + | <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"> |
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| − | + | <th>What it looks like</th> | |
| + | <th>What you type</th> | ||
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| + | Start your sections with header lines: | ||
| + | <!-- This is the original | ||
| + | == New section == | ||
| + | === Subsection === | ||
| + | ==== Sub-subsection ==== | ||
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| − | + | <h3> Subsection </h3> | |
| − | + | <h4> Sub-subsection </h4> | |
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| − | + | <!-- This code prevents confusion in the section editing feature--> | |
| − | + | <b><font style="font-size:120%"> New section </font></b> | |
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| − | ===Subsection=== | + | === Subsection === |
| − | ====Sub-subsection==== | + | ==== Sub-subsection ==== |
</nowiki></pre> | </nowiki></pre> | ||
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| − | A single | + | <tr> |
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| − | + | A single | |
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But an empty line | But an empty line | ||
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starts a new paragraph. | starts a new paragraph. | ||
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<pre><nowiki> | <pre><nowiki> | ||
| − | A single | + | A single |
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But an empty line | But an empty line | ||
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| − | + | starts a new paragraph.</nowiki></pre> | |
| − | + | </td> | |
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| − | <pre><nowiki> | + | <tr valign="top"><td>You can break lines<br> |
| − | You can break lines<br> | + | without starting a new paragraph.<p> |
| − | without starting a new paragraph. | + | Sufficient as wikitext code is <br>, the XHTML code <br /> is not needed, the system produces this code.</p></td> |
| − | </nowiki></pre> | + | <td><pre><nowiki>You can break lines<br> |
| − | + | without starting a new paragraph.</nowiki></pre> | |
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* Lists are easy to do: | * Lists are easy to do: | ||
| − | ** | + | ** start every line with a star |
| − | *** | + | *** more stars means deeper levels |
| − | + | *A newline | |
| − | marks the end of | + | *in a list |
| + | marks the end of the list. | ||
| + | *Of course | ||
| + | *you can | ||
| + | *start again. | ||
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| − | + | <td><pre><nowiki>* Lists are easy to do: | |
| − | <pre><nowiki> | + | ** start every line with a star |
| − | * Lists are easy to do: | + | *** more stars means deeper levels |
| − | ** | + | *A newline |
| − | *** | + | *in a list |
| − | + | marks the end of the list. | |
| − | marks the end of | + | *Of course |
| + | *you can | ||
| + | *start again. | ||
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# Numbered lists are also good | # Numbered lists are also good | ||
## very organized | ## very organized | ||
## easy to follow | ## easy to follow | ||
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| − | + | #in a list | |
| − | <pre><nowiki> | + | marks the end of the list. |
| − | # Numbered lists are also good | + | #New numbering starts |
| + | #with 1. | ||
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| + | <td><pre><nowiki># Numbered lists are also good | ||
## very organized | ## very organized | ||
## easy to follow | ## easy to follow | ||
| − | ### | + | #A newline |
| + | #in a list | ||
| + | marks the end of the list. | ||
| + | #New numbering starts | ||
| + | #with 1. | ||
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* You can even do mixed lists | * You can even do mixed lists | ||
*# and nest them | *# and nest them | ||
| − | *#* like this | + | *#* like this<br>or have newlines<br>inside lists |
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| − | <pre><nowiki> | + | <td><pre><nowiki>* You can even do mixed lists |
| − | * You can even do mixed lists | ||
*# and nest them | *# and nest them | ||
| − | *#* like this | + | *#* like this<br>or have newlines<br>inside lists</nowiki></pre> |
| − | </nowiki></pre> | + | </td> |
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| + | * You can also | ||
| + | **break lines<br>inside lists<br>like this | ||
| + | </td> | ||
| + | <td><pre><nowiki>* You can also | ||
| + | **break lines<br>inside lists<br>like this</nowiki></pre> | ||
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; Definition list : list of definitions | ; Definition list : list of definitions | ||
; item : the item's definition | ; item : the item's definition | ||
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| − | + | <td><pre><nowiki>; Definition list : list | |
| − | + | of definitions | |
| − | + | ; item : the item's definition</nowiki></pre> | |
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| − | <pre><nowiki> | + | </tr> |
| − | ; Definition list : list of definitions | + | <tr> |
| − | ; item : the item's definition | + | <td> |
| − | + | :A colon indents a line or paragraph. | |
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| − | : A colon indents a line or paragraph. | ||
A manual newline starts a new paragraph. | A manual newline starts a new paragraph. | ||
| − | + | * This is primarily for displayed material, but is also used for discussion on talk pages. | |
| − | * This is primarily for displayed material, but is also used for discussion on | + | </td> |
| − | + | <td><pre><nowiki>: A colon indents a line or paragraph. | |
| − | <pre><nowiki> | ||
| − | : A colon indents a line or paragraph. | ||
A manual newline starts a new paragraph. | A manual newline starts a new paragraph. | ||
</nowiki></pre> | </nowiki></pre> | ||
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| − | + | <tr valign=top> | |
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| − | + | <pre><nowiki>IF a line of plain text starts with a space THEN | |
| − | + | it will be formatted exactly | |
| − | + | as typed; | |
| − | + | in a fixed-width font; | |
| + | lines won't wrap; | ||
| + | ENDIF | ||
| + | this is useful for: | ||
| + | * pasting preformatted text; | ||
| + | * algorithm descriptions; | ||
| + | * program source code | ||
| + | * ASCII art; | ||
| + | * chemical structures;</nowiki></pre> | ||
| − | + | WARNING If you make it wide, | |
| − | + | you force the whole page to be wide and hence less readable. Never start ordinary lines with spaces.<br> | |
| − | + | <center>(see also below)</center> | |
| − | + | </td> | |
| − | + | <td><pre><nowiki> IF a line of plain text starts with a space THEN | |
| − | + | it will be formatted exactly | |
| − | + | as typed; | |
| − | + | in a fixed-width font; | |
| − | <pre><nowiki> | + | lines won't wrap; |
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| − | </nowiki></pre> | + | this is useful for: |
| − | + | * pasting preformatted text; | |
| − | + | * algorithm descriptions; | |
| − | <center>Centered text.</center> | + | * program source code |
| + | * ASCII art; | ||
| + | * chemical structures;</nowiki></pre></td> | ||
| + | </tr> | ||
| + | <tr valign="top"><td><center>Centered text.</center> | ||
| + | </td> | ||
| + | <td><pre><nowiki><center>Centered text.</center></nowiki></pre> | ||
| + | </td> | ||
| + | </tr> | ||
| + | <tr> | ||
| + | <td>A horizontal dividing line: above | ||
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| − | + | <td><pre><nowiki>A horizontal dividing line: above | |
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| − | and | + | and below. </nowiki></pre> |
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| + | <th>What it looks like</th> | ||
| + | <th>What you type</th> | ||
| + | </tr> | ||
| + | <tr valign="top"><td>Sue is reading [[Strong Bad Email]]. | ||
| + | *First letter of target is not automatically capitalized, unlike Wikipedia. | ||
| + | *Internally spaces are automatically represented as underscores (typing an underscore has the same effect as typing a space, but is not recommended). | ||
| + | Thus the link above is to <nowiki>http://hrwiki.org/index.php/Strong_Bad_Email</nowiki>, which is the page with the name "Strong Bad Email". | ||
| + | </td> | ||
| + | <td><pre><nowiki>Sue is reading [[Strong Bad Email]].</nowiki></pre> | ||
| − | + | (This is called a piped link). | |
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| − | + | <pre><nowiki>Same target, different name: | |
| − | + | [[Help:Contents|help]]</nowiki></pre> | |
| − | </nowiki></pre> | + | </td> |
| − | + | </td> | |
| − | | | + | </tr> |
| − | + | <tr valign="top"> | |
| + | <td>Endings are blended into the link: [[Strong Bad Email]]s</td> | ||
| + | <td> | ||
| + | <pre><nowiki>Endings are blended | ||
| + | into the link: [[Strong Bad Email]]s,</nowiki></pre> | ||
| + | </td> | ||
| + | </tr> | ||
| + | <tr valign="top"> | ||
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| + | Automatically hide stuff in parentheses: [[Marzipan (character)|Marzipan]]. | ||
| + | <p>Automatically hide namespace: [[HRWiki:Welcoming committee|Welcoming committee]].</p> | ||
| − | + | <p>The server fills in the part after the | when you save the page. Next time you open the edit box you will see the expanded piped link. A preview interprets the abbreviated form correctly, but does not expand it yet in the edit box. Press Save and again Edit, and you will see the expanded version. The same applies for the following feature.</p> | |
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| − | + | <pre><nowiki>Automatically hide stuff in parentheses: | |
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| − | + | <pre><nowiki>Automatically hide namespace: | |
| − | + | [[HRWiki:Welcoming committee|]].</nowiki></pre> | |
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| − | + | <td>When adding a comment to a Talk page, | |
| − | + | you should sign it. You can do this by | |
| − | + | adding three tildes for your user name: | |
| − | + | : [[User:JoeyDay|JoeyDay]] | |
| − | + | or four for user name plus date/time: | |
| − | + | : [[User:JoeyDay|JoeyDay]] 08:10 Oct 5, 2002 (UTC) | |
| − | + | </td> | |
| − | + | <td><pre><nowiki>When adding a comment to a Talk page, | |
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| − | : ~~~~ | + | : ~~~~</nowiki></pre> |
| − | + | </td> | |
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| − | </ | + | <tr valign="top"><td>[[The weather in London]] is a page that doesn't exist yet. |
| − | + | *You can create it by clicking on the link. | |
| − | + | *To create a new page: | |
| − | + | *#Create a link to it on some other page. | |
| − | * | + | *#Save that page. |
| − | + | *#Click on the link you just made. The new page will open for editing. | |
| − | <pre><nowiki> | + | </td> |
| − | + | <td><pre><nowiki>[[The weather in London]] is a page | |
| − | </nowiki></pre> | + | that doesn't exist yet.</nowiki></pre> |
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| − | + | Redirect one article title to another by putting text like this in its first line. | |
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| − | + | <td><pre><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Senor]]</nowiki></pre> | |
| − | <pre><nowiki> | + | </td> |
| − | [[ | + | </tr> |
| − | </nowiki></pre> | + | <tr> |
| − | + | <td>"What links here" and "Related changes" can be linked as:<br/> | |
| − | + | [[Special:Whatlinkshere/Strong Bad]] and | |
| − | + | [[Special:Recentchangeslinked/Strong Bad]] | |
| − | + | </td> | |
| − | [[Special:Whatlinkshere/ | + | <td><pre><nowiki> |
| − | and | + | [[Special:Whatlinkshere/ |
| − | [[Special:Recentchangeslinked/ | + | Strong Bad]] and |
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| − | + | Strong Bad]]</nowiki></pre> | |
| − | <pre><nowiki> | + | </td> |
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| − | + | <tr valign="top"><td>External links: [http://www.homestarrunner.com Homestar Runner], [http://www.homestarrunner.com] | |
| − | [[Special:Whatlinkshere/ | + | </td> |
| − | and | + | <td><pre><nowiki>External links: |
| − | [[Special:Recentchangeslinked/ | + | [http://www.homestarrunner.com Homestar Runner], |
| − | </nowiki></pre> | + | [http://www.homestarrunner.com]</nowiki></pre> |
| − | + | </td> | |
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| − | + | <tr valign="top"><td>Or just give the URL: http://www.homestarrunner.com. | |
| − | [ | + | *In the URL all symbols must be among: A-Z a-z 0-9 ._\/~%-+&#?!=()@ \x80-\xFF. If a URL contains a different character it should be converted; for example, ^ has to be written %5E (to be looked up in ASCII). A blank space can also be converted into an underscore. |
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| − | [ | + | <td><pre><nowiki>Or just give the URL: |
| − | + | http://www.homestarrunner.com.</nowiki></pre> | |
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| − | [ | + | To link to books, you can use ISBN links. |
| − | </nowiki></pre> | + | ISBN 0123456789X |
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| − | </ | + | Link to [[w:Request for Comments|Request for Comments]]: RFC 123 (URL specified in [[mediawiki:Rfcurl]]) |
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| + | <td><pre><nowiki>[[July 20]], [[1969]] , [[20 July]] [[1969]] | ||
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| − | <pre><nowiki> | + | <td> |
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| − | </nowiki></pre> | + | '''''very strongly'''''.</nowiki></pre> |
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| − | < | + | if the desired effect is a specific font style |
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| + | ''not shown in page'' | ||
| + | * Used to leave comments in a page for future editors. | ||
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Latest revision as of 19:17, 24 March 2006
This page is blatantly stolen from hrwiki.org
Contents
General
To edit a page, click on the "Edit this page" (or just "edit") link at one of its edges.
After adding to or changing the wikitext it is useful to press "Preview", which produces the corresponding webpage in your browser but does not make it publicly available yet (not until you press "Save"). Errors in formatting, links, tables, etc., are often much easier to discover from the rendered page than from the raw wikitext.
If you are not satisfied you can make more changes and preview the page as many times as necessary. Then write a short edit summary in the small text field below the edit-box and when finished press "Save". Depending on your system, pressing the "Enter" key while the edit box is not active (i.e., there is no typing cursor in it) may have the same effect as pressing "Save".
Dummy edit
If the wikitext is not changed no edit will be recorded and the edit summary is discarded.
A dummy edit is a change in wikitext that has no effect on the rendered page. This allows an edit summary, and is useful for correcting a previous edit summary, or an accidental marking of a previous edit as "minor" (see below). Also it is sometimes needed to refresh the cache of some item in the database.
Minor edits
When editing a page, a logged in user has the option of flagging the edit as a "minor edit". When to use this is somewhat a matter of personal preference. The rule of thumb is that an edit of a page that is spelling corrections, formatting, and minor rearranging of text should be flagged as a "minor edit". A major edit is basically something that makes the entry worth relooking at for somebody who wants to watch the article rather closely, so any "real" change, even if it is a single word. This feature is important, because users can choose to hide minor edits in their view of the recent changes to keep the volume of edits down to a manageable level.
The reason for not allowing a user who is not logged in to mark an edit as minor is that vandalism could then be marked as a minor edit, in which case it would stay unnoticed longer. This limitation is another reason to log in.
The wiki markup
In the left column of the table below, you can see what effects are possible. In the right column, you can see how those effects were achieved. In other words, to make text look like it looks in the left column, type it in the format you see in the right column.
You may want to keep this page open in a separate browser window for reference. If you want to try out things without danger of doing any harm, you can do so in the Sandbox.
Sections, paragraphs, lists and lines
| What it looks like | What you type |
|---|---|
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Start your sections with header lines: New section Subsection Sub-subsection |
== New section == === Subsection === ==== Sub-subsection ==== |
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New line: A single new line has no effect on the layout. But an empty line starts a new paragraph. |
A single newline has no effect on the layout. But an empty line starts a new paragraph. |
| You can break lines without starting a new paragraph. Sufficient as wikitext code is <br>, the XHTML code <br /> is not needed, the system produces this code. |
You can break lines<br> without starting a new paragraph. |
marks the end of the list.
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* Lists are easy to do: ** start every line with a star *** more stars means deeper levels *A newline *in a list marks the end of the list. *Of course *you can *start again. |
marks the end of the list.
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# Numbered lists are also good ## very organized ## easy to follow #A newline #in a list marks the end of the list. #New numbering starts #with 1. |
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* You can even do mixed lists *# and nest them *#* like this<br>or have newlines<br>inside lists |
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* You can also **break lines<br>inside lists<br>like this |
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; Definition list : list of definitions ; item : the item's definition |
A manual newline starts a new paragraph.
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: A colon indents a line or paragraph. A manual newline starts a new paragraph. |
IF a line of plain text starts with a space THEN
it will be formatted exactly
as typed;
in a fixed-width font;
lines won't wrap;
ENDIF
this is useful for:
* pasting preformatted text;
* algorithm descriptions;
* program source code
* ASCII art;
* chemical structures;
WARNING If you make it wide,
you force the whole page to be wide and hence less readable. Never start ordinary lines with spaces. |
IF a line of plain text starts with a space THEN
it will be formatted exactly
as typed;
in a fixed-width font;
lines won't wrap;
ENDIF
this is useful for:
* pasting preformatted text;
* algorithm descriptions;
* program source code
* ASCII art;
* chemical structures; |
<center>Centered text.</center> |
|
| A horizontal dividing line: above
and below. Mainly useful for separating threads on Talk pages. |
A horizontal dividing line: above ---- and below. |
Summarizing the effect of a single newline: no effect in general, but it ends a list item or indented part; thus changing some text into a list item, or indenting it, is more cumbersome if it contains newlines, they have to be removed.
Links, URLs
| What it looks like | What you type |
|---|---|
Sue is reading Strong Bad Email.
Thus the link above is to http://hrwiki.org/index.php/Strong_Bad_Email, which is the page with the name "Strong Bad Email". |
Sue is reading [[Strong Bad Email]]. (This is called a piped link). Same target, different name: [[Help:Contents|help]] |
| Endings are blended into the link: Strong Bad Emails |
Endings are blended into the link: [[Strong Bad Email]]s, |
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Automatically hide stuff in parentheses: Marzipan. Automatically hide namespace: Welcoming committee. The server fills in the part after the | when you save the page. Next time you open the edit box you will see the expanded piped link. A preview interprets the abbreviated form correctly, but does not expand it yet in the edit box. Press Save and again Edit, and you will see the expanded version. The same applies for the following feature. |
Automatically hide stuff in parentheses: [[Marzipan (character)|]]. Automatically hide namespace: [[HRWiki:Welcoming committee|]]. |
| When adding a comment to a Talk page,
you should sign it. You can do this by adding three tildes for your user name: or four for user name plus date/time:
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When adding a comment to a Talk page, you should sign it. You can do this by adding three tildes for your user name: : ~~~ or four for user name plus date/time: : ~~~~ |
The weather in London is a page that doesn't exist yet.
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[[The weather in London]] is a page that doesn't exist yet. |
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Redirect one article title to another by putting text like this in its first line. |
#REDIRECT [[Senor]] |
| "What links here" and "Related changes" can be linked as: Special:Whatlinkshere/Strong Bad and Special:Recentchangeslinked/Strong Bad |
[[Special:Whatlinkshere/ Strong Bad]] and [[Special:Recentchangeslinked/ Strong Bad]] |
| External links: Homestar Runner, [1] | External links: [http://www.homestarrunner.com Homestar Runner], [http://www.homestarrunner.com] |
Or just give the URL: http://www.homestarrunner.com.
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Or just give the URL: http://www.homestarrunner.com. |
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To link to books, you can use ISBN links. ISBN 0123456789X |
ISBN 0123456789X |
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Link to Request for Comments: RFC 123 (URL specified in mediawiki:Rfcurl) |
RFC 123 |
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To include links to non-image uploads such as sounds, use a "media" link.
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[[media:Sg_mrob.ogg|Sound]] |
| Use links for dates, so everyone can set their own display order. Use Special:Preferences to change your own date display setting. | [[July 20]], [[1969]] , [[20 July]] [[1969]] and [[1969]]-[[07-20]]will all appear as 20 July 1969 if you set your date display preference to 1 January 2001. |
Images
| What it looks like | What you type |
|---|---|
A picture: The Homestar Runner is a terrific athlete.
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A picture: [[Image:homestar.PNG]] or, with alternate text (strongly encouraged) [[Image:homestar.PNG|The Homestar Runner is a terrific athlete]] Web browsers render alternate text when not displaying an image -- for example, when the image isn't loaded, or in a text-only browser, or when spoken aloud. |
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Clicking on an uploaded image displays a description page, which you can also link directly to: Image:homestar.PNG |
[[:Image:homestar.PNG]] |
Character formatting
| What it looks like | What you type |
|---|---|
|
Emphasize, strongly, very strongly.
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''Emphasize'', '''strongly''', '''''very strongly'''''. |
|
You can also write italic and bold if the desired effect is a specific font style rather than emphasis, as in mathematical formulae:
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You can also write <i>italic</i> and <b>bold</b> if the desired effect is a specific font style rather than emphasis, as in mathematical formulas: :<b>F</b> = <i>m</i><b>a</b> |
| A typewriter font for technical terms. | A typewriter font for <tt>technical terms</tt>. |
| You can use small text for captions. | You can use <small>small text</small> for captions. |
| You can and underline new material. |
You can <strike>strike out deleted material</strike> and <u>underline new material</u>. |
|
Umlauts and accents: |
è é ê ë ì í À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö Ø Ù Ú Û Ü ß à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ñ ò ó ô œ õ ö ø ù ú û ü ÿ |
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Punctuation: |
¿ ¡ « » § ¶ † ‡ • — |
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Commercial symbols: |
™ © ® ¢ € ¥ £ ¤ |
| Subscript: x2 Superscript: x2 or x²
ε0 =
8.85 × 10−12
C² / J m.
|
Subscript: x<sub>2</sub>
Superscript: x<sup>2</sup> or x²
or in projects with the templates sub and sup:
Subscript: x{{sub|2}}
Superscript: x{{sup|2}}
ε<sub>0</sub> =
8.85 × 10<sup>−12</sup>
C² / J m.
|
| Greek characters: Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ |
Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π ρ σ ς τ υ φ χ ψ ω |
|
Math characters: |
∫ ∑ ∏ √ − ± ∞ ≈ ∝ ≡ ≠ ≤ ≥ → × · ÷ ∂ ′ ″ ∇ ‰ ° ∴ ℵ ø ∈ ∉ ∩ ∪ ⊂ ⊃ ⊆ ⊇ ¬ ∧ ∨ ∃ ∀ ⇒ ⇔ → ↔ |
x2 ≥ 0 true.
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<i>x</i><sup>2</sup> ≥ 0 true. |
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For comparison for the following examples: arrow → italics link |
arrow → ''italics'' [[link]] |
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Use <nowiki> to suppress interpretation of wiki markup, but interpret character references and remove newlines and multiple spaces: arrow → ''italics'' [[link]] |
<nowiki>arrow → ''italics'' [[link]]</nowiki> |
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Use <pre> to suppress interpretation of wiki markup and keep newlines and multiple spaces, and get typewriter font, but interpret character references: arrow → ''italics'' [[link]] |
<nowiki><pre>arrow → ''italics'' [[link]]</nowiki> |
|
Use leading space on each line to keep newlines and multiple spaces, and get typewriter font: arrow → italics link |
arrow → ''italics'' [[link]] |
|
Use typewriter font: arrow → italics link |
<tt>arrow →</tt> <tt>''italics''</tt> <tt>[[link]]</tt> |
|
Show character references: → |
&rarr; |
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Commenting page source:
|
<!-- comment here --> |
HTML Tables
HTML tables can be quite useful as well. For details on how to use them and discussion about when they are appropriate, see [MediaWiki User's Guide: Using tables].
Templates
Some part of a page may correspond in the edit box to just a reference to another page, in the form {{name}}, referring to the page "Template:name" (or if the name starts with a namespace prefix, it refers to the page with that name; if it starts with a colon it refers to the page in the main namespace with that name without the colon). This is called a template. For changing that part of the page, edit that other page. Sometimes a separate edit link is provided for this purpose. A convenient way to put such a link in a template is with a template like m:Template:ed. Note that the change also affects other pages which use the same template.
Page protection
In a few cases the link labeled "MediaWiki:Editthispage" is replaced by the text "Protected page". In that case the page can not be edited.
Separating edits
When moving or copying a piece of text within a page or from another page, and also making other edits, it is useful to separate these edits. This way the diff function can be usefully applied for checking these other edits.
