Help:Editing

Saturday May 17th, 2008

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Table of contents
1 General Principles
2 The wiki markup

2.1 Character Formatting
2.2 Sections, paragraphs, lists and lines
2.3 Links, URLs
2.4 More Markup Help

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General Principles

Wiki wiki or how I learned to stop worrying and love the wiki

Though wikis are incredibly simple to use, learning to work with them can be a little daunting at first. The informal and sometimes chaotic world of the wiki can be a bit hard for librarians, especially, to embrace! The term wiki comes from the Hawaiian phrase wiki wiki meaning "quick" or "informal". Setting aside perfectionist tendencies will help you as you work with the wiki. Remember that you can't break the wiki, that contributing something incomple and poorly formatted is actually better than contributing nothing at all. The fun thing about the wiki is that you can post something half-done and ugly and come back a few hours later and find it finished and formatted. Trust the community of users to moderate such things.


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The wiki markup

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Character Formatting

What it looks like What you type

Emphasize, strongly, very strongly.

  • These are double and triple apostrophes, not double quotes. 
''Emphasize'', '''strongly''',
'''''very strongly'''''.
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 strike out deleted material

and underline new material. 

You can <strike>strike out deleted material</strike>
and <u>underline new material</u>.

Other Advanced Formatting Including puctuation, Greek characters, commercial symbols, subscript and superscript, etc (See the MediaWiki User's Guide - Character Formatting (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Character_formatting))
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Sections, paragraphs, lists and lines

What it looks like What you type

Start your sections with header lines:

Note: Single equal signs work for formatting headings, however as a convention for this wiki, do not use them.

New section

Subsection

Sub-subsection 


== New section ==

=== Subsection ===

==== Sub-subsection ====

Newline:

A single newline 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.
  • 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. 
* 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.
  1. Numbered lists are also good
    1. very organized
    2. easy to follow
  2. A newline
  3. in a list

marks the end of the list.

  1. New numbering starts
  2. with 1. 
# 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.
  • You can even do mixed lists
    1. and nest them
      • like this
        or have newlines
        inside lists 
* You can even do mixed lists
*# and nest them
*#* like this<br>or have newlines<br>inside lists
  • You can also
    • break lines
      inside lists
      like this 
* You can also
**break lines<br>inside lists<br>like this
Definition list 
list of definitions
item 
the item's definition 
; Definition list : list of definitions
; item : the item's definition
A colon indents a line or paragraph.

A manual newline starts a new paragraph.

  • This is primarily for displayed material, but is also used for discussion on Talk pages. 
: A colon indents a line or paragraph.
A manual newline starts a new paragraph.
Centered text.
 
<center>Centered text.</center>
A horizontal dividing line: above

and below.

(However, in most cases a section header is more useful. The horizontal dividing line should only be used if what follows is logically part of the same section; otherwise that part would be hidden in the TOC.)		 
A horizontal dividing line: above
----
and below.
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Links, URLs

What it looks like What you type
Sue is reading the video policy.
  • First letter of target is automatically capitalized.
  • 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 http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_policy, which is the page with the name "Video policy". 

Sue is reading the [[video policy]].

Link to a section on a page, e.g. List_of_cities_by_country#Morocco; when section linking does not work the link is treated as link to the page, i.e. to the top; this applies for:

  • links to non-existent sections
  • links in redirects 
[[List_of_cities_by_country#Morocco]].
Link target and link label are different: answers.

(This is called a piped link). 

Same target, different name:
[[User:Larry Sanger|answers]]
Endings are blended into the link: official positions, genes 
Endings are blended
into the link: [[official position]]s, [[gene]]s
When adding a comment to a Talk page,

you should sign it. You can do this by adding three tildes for your user name:

Karl Wick

or four for user name plus date/time:

Karl Wick 08:10 Oct 5, 2002 (UTC) 
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.
  • You can create it by clicking on the link.
  • To create a new page:
    1. Create a link to it on some other page.
    2. Save that page.
    3. Click on the link you just made. The new page will open for editing. 
[[The weather in London]] is a page
that doesn't exist yet.
"What links here" and "Related changes" can be linked as:

Special:Whatlinkshere/Wikipedia:How to edit a page and Special:Recentchangeslinked/Wikipedia:How to edit a page 

[[Special:Whatlinkshere/
Wikipedia:How to edit a page]] and
[[Special:Recentchangeslinked/
Wikipedia:How to edit a page]]
External links: Nupedia (http://www.nupedia.com), [1] (http://www.nupedia.com) 
External links:
[http://www.nupedia.com Nupedia],
[http://www.nupedia.com]
Or just give the URL: http://www.nupedia.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. 
Or just give the URL:
http://www.nupedia.com.

To link to books, you can use ISBN links. ISBN 0123456789X See Help:ISBN links 

ISBN 0123456789X
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