Difference between revisions of "Help:Editing"

Revision as of 10:12, 29 December 2011

Here you find some links to information about editing pages on this site.

Trying to discover how References are made

Making the References section Templates for this. I think this template needs working on the Wiki software. "This template encapsulates the tag to show the list of references defined by ^[1] tags, with some formatting. It reduces the font size and has options for columns and groups. References can be defined within the body of the article or within the reference list. The ^[2] and

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tags are part of the Cite.php MediaWiki extension." There's also still this Help:Link page that explains about making links.

Specific editing help pages

WikiMedia Reference Card A one page summary of important MediaWiki editing commands, intended to be printed out and used next to the computer.
Help:Editing
- The most common editing functions
Help:Advanced editing
- Making your page look the way you want, organizing your writing — sections, paragraphs, lists and lines, links, text formatting, special characters, etc.
How to edit a page
- Minor and major edits, links, URLs, images, character - and limited formatting, table of contents, variables, templates
Wikipedia:Moving a page
- Also for changing the name of a page
Customize page layout
Help:List For example: Multi-column bulleted list

Images

Manuals

All help pages in the Wikimedia: Category:Editor handbook
You can also use the Wikimedia User's Guide

Trying out things

If you want to try out things without danger of doing any harm, you can do so in the Wikimedia Meta:Sandbox

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 Here you find some links to information about editing pages on this site.
+== Trying to discover how References are made ==
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Reflist Making the References section] Templates for this. ''I think this template needs working on the Wiki software.'' "This template encapsulates the <references /> tag to show the list of references defined by <ref>...</ref> tags, with some formatting. It reduces the font size and has options for columns and groups. References can be defined within the body of the article or within the reference list. The <ref>...</ref> and <references /> tags are part of the Cite.php MediaWiki extension." There's also still [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Link this Help:Link page] that explains about making links.
 == Specific editing help pages ==
 * [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/6/66/MediaWikiRefCard.pdf WikiMedia Reference Card] A one page summary of important MediaWiki editing commands, intended to be printed out and used next to the computer.
 * [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing Help:Editing]
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 * [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Customize_page_layout Customize page layout]
 * [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:List Help:List] For example: Multi-column bulleted list
-* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Reflist Making the References section] Templates for this. ''I think this template needs working on the Wiki software.'' "This template encapsulates the <references /> tag to show the list of references defined by <ref>...</ref> tags, with some formatting. It reduces the font size and has options for columns and groups. References can be defined within the body of the article or within the reference list. The <ref>...</ref> and <references /> tags are part of the Cite.php MediaWiki extension." There's also still [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Link this Help:Link page] that explains about making links.
 === Images ===