Howtos
Just my personal reference cheat sheet. The stuff I never remember when I need it, and which can be hard to dig out of the official Help pages.
Redirect
- #REDIRECT [[WalkThisWay]]
|
For the other use of the word, see This Article (here).
|
- is generated by entering:
((For|the other use of the word|This Article (here)))
- is generated by entering:
((about|the radio show|Mooney (radio programme)|the aircraft manufacturer|Mooney Aviation Company))
- "Above all, do not pipe the link. Show the entire linked article title as is."
Wikisourcecodequoting
- <tt><nowiki> Put it Here </nowiki></tt>
- Now try and figure out the wikisource for that line without looking! :-)
- This is probably way outdated. See next item for a modern template style:
Quoting larger blocks of Wiki-Markup
::((pre2|style=padding:0.2em|<nowiki>
Then just
put it all
here
(colons for indention are optional, of course)
</nowiki>))
- ((refn| Put your Text here. |group=Note))
Displaying the </nowiki> tag in these howtos
- The tag will just render as text if there isn't an "open" <nowiki> tag pending.
- To show it after a <nowiki> tag therefore requires to:
- suspend the "nowiki-state"
- put the </nowiki> text
- resume the "nowiki-state"
- Code:
</nowiki></nowiki><nowiki>
- <! Now you see it - now you don't >
Format-Fu
- Linktext1 Linktext2
- User-Name-Link (✉)
- Codes shamelessly stolen from the signatures of fellow users
Multicolumned list
- ((columns-list|2|
- * 1
- * 2
- * 3
- ))
faked multicolumn
- ((Refbegin|20em))
- * Some
- * Bulleted
- * List
- ((Refend))
Boxes
- <blockquote style="background-color:#E0E0E0; padding-left:0.8em; margin:0;">
- If you know a better way to transfer text blocks to a talkpage let me know!
- </blockquote>
The ((talkquote|<...>)) template looks promising!
- Honors Linebreaks! Yay!
- (Can't use <br>)
Categories
- WP-Policy
- Wikipedia:Categorization. tl;dr: Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization
- Newly created Categories always have to be part of other Categories!
- Linking to a Category
- Just put a colon at the front of the link
[[:Category:Siouan languages]]
--> Category:Siouan languages
- Thanks to User:Kwamikagami for pointing this out!
Multiples
Using different pages of the same work in different citations
<ref>((...))</ref>((rp|page=381))
((Coord|57|18|22|N|4|27|32|W|dim:100|display=title))
((Coord|44.112|N|87.913|W|dim:10km|display=title))
((Coord|44.112|-87.913|display=title))
- "dim": viewing diameter (for a sane zoom level). Default in m
Done
((Done))
- Done
Uploading an Image
- Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard
- Or just add the object
- [[File:Some Picture's Name.jpg|thumb|left|250px|alt=Some Picture's Hover Text. | Text below the Picture.]]
- and follow the links.
Linking to Wikisource
- [[s:...]]
SUL-Info for User "BjKa"
- http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/tools/sulinfo.php?username=BjKa&showinactivity=1&showblocks=1&showlocked=1
Talk pages
((Talk header))
- (
((talkheader))
)
- (
((talkpage))
)
wrapping bannerclutter
((WikiProjectBannerShell|1= ... ))
convert
((convert|16|in|mm|abbr=on))
Inflation
(about ((Inflation|US|0.8|1902|r=-1)) million [[USD]] today)
£199 (about ((Inflation|UK|199|1978|r=-1)) [[GBP]] today)
fight JPEG
- * Category:Images with inappropriate JPEG compression
- * Wikipedia:Preparing_images_for_upload#Do_not_save_diagrams_as_JPEG
Translate
- * Full rules: Wikipedia:Translation
- * tl;dr: Template:Expand language
Drive-by tagging
- Overview of available tags
Clarification needed
- ((cn|reason="The term <...> needs more explanation."|date=January 2016))
- See Wikipedia:Please_clarify.
- tl;dr:
((what))
Undated time references
((when))
- Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Relative_time_references
- = MOS:REALTIME
Jargon
((jargon inline))
- Articles in Wikipedia should be understandable to the widest possible audience.
- For most articles, this means understandable to a general audience.
- --WP:TECHNICAL
- Leider gibts kein ordentliches Äquivalent zu de:WP:Oma...
- Other aliases redirecting to Wikipedia:Make technical articles understandable
- * Wikipedia:Understandability
- * Wikipedia:Too technical
- * Wikipedia:Write one level down
Space Double
- So that italicized words and end-quotation-marks don't run into each other
- Use ((-")) instead of the "
- See template:space_double, also for links to similar stuff