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This is where I keep my own notes about how to do various things in Wikipedia and HTML.


Those three pretty boxes on the right were copied from User:Jimbo Wales

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TOC and FORCETOC[edit]

By default, I get no TOC even tho there are more than 3 sections.

I got a TOC by adding the magic word __TOC__ (2 underscores before and after TOC).

Did not need __FORCETOC__.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Table_of_contents

Edit link for top section (answer from asking a Help question)[edit]

@Mwr0: If it's only for your own use then it's not done with a template but with a setting in the preferences for your account. See Help:Section#Editing before the first section. If you want others to get such a link on a specific page without changing their preferences then I didn't know we had such a template but I did a search on "template:edit lead" and found Template:Edit section on page four of the search results. If you don't know the top section is called the lead then it may be harder to find the template. It shouldn't be used on articles. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:31, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
But using {{Edit section}} as the first thing on the page doesn't put the [Edit] in the right place.

Answer: (Top)Preferences → Gadgets → Appearance → Add an [edit] link for the lead section of a page

Some Specials (2 equals)[edit]

Horizontal Rules (2 equals)[edit]

Magenta <HR> follows (made with a <div style=...></div>); thickness is given N pixels:
<div style="border-style:solid;border-color:magenta;border-width: 2px 0px 0px 0px;"></div>

((Can border a DIV, a {{Hidden}}'s header and/or content))

mwr0 User Page

Template:User_page

{End of section}

HTML character entities and the like (2 equals)[edit]

All 3 ways of striking text work: striking <space>test<space> within outer text

  • <S> — outer test text
  • <STRIKE> — outer test text
  • strike template — outer test text

…MWR note… formatting hints by example (ellipses (&hellip;))
...MWR note... formatting hints by example (three periods)
(there is no vertical ellipse)
Use {‍&zwj;{ ("zero-width joiner") for two of { in a row (or bracket with <nowiki>...</nowiki>)
Use }‍&zwj;}‍ for two of } in a row (or bracket with <nowiki>...</nowiki>)
Or USE the double-parens templates! {{((}} and {{))}}

NAMED HTML character entities[edit]

The following are named HTML character entities of the form &name;

frasl,pi: 3⁄π Pi Π piv ϖ oline ‾ real ℜ image ℑ trade ™ copy © macr(macron) ¯ para ¶
crarr ↵ lArr ⇐ uArr ⇑ rArr ⇒ dArr ⇓ hArr ⇔ ?how to combine? circ aˆ tilde a˜
lsquo rsquo ‘X’ left/right single quotes
ldquo rdquo “X” left/right double quotes
sbquo bdquo ‚X„ "single/double low-9 quotation marks"
lsaquo rsaquo ‹X› "left/right single angle quotation marks"
lang ⟨ and rang ⟩ are "bra" and "ket".
⇒⇒⇒lt < and gt > are "bra" and "ket"?
dagger † Dagger ‡ permil ‰

NUMERIC HTML character entities[edit]

The following are numeric HTML character entities of the form &#ddd; (decimal) or &#xxxxx; (hex)

cat(🐈)=x1F408 🐈 (bold doesn't embolden; big, large work) ~ paragraph(¶=Alt+0182) 182=¶ 0182=¶ hex 00B6=¶
2nd,3rd,4th roots x221A=√ x221B=∛ x221C=∜
Modifier characters ... aˆcˉ
Combining characters x0300..x036F:
à(grave accent) ê(circumflex) Q̄(modifier letter macron) Q̅(overline) n̷ (short solidus) x̿(double overline) q͏z(grapheme joiner)(??)
x0363..x036F combiners (a e i o u c d h m r t v x) Aͯ cͣ Bͩ

WikiTable[edit]

WikiTable, collapsed, collapsible: 1st column header will have [Show] or [Hide] added to it.
Vertical spacing here ...

Without style=margin:, about 32px above top and 18px below bottom.
With 1px and 1px specified is more like 19px and 4px.

First line of text following the table.

indent, outdent[edit]

Color in header shows up in the header itself but not in the table of contents.
{{hidden}} follows. Note that |expanded=false is the same thing as |expanded=true (it's non-null)

Testing the use of {{outdent}} and {outdent|n}
Indented 3 levels, by 3 colons
This one is indented 6 levels, by 6 colons. This line is going to get very long, since I want the text to wrap, to see if it wraps at the indent level or at the left margin.

This is just text following that -- and is not kept indented.

This is just {outdent} without a count (bar=10, following text is not indented)
This is 6 in again followed

By what should be an indented line(using <P>)

That was outdent with count of 3, no colons.
indented with 2 colons
outdent 4 again — the {outdent} must be at start-of-line or preceded by colons.

Ack. Indenting on talk pages is done using a colon character (:) to produce "tabs"; this template produces a connector bar and (optionally) initial text to indicate an outdent, with the length of the bar specified by the number of colons used in the template. The left margin is sent to the position of the template. A line with just "::{{od}}" produces outdent to indentation level 2, bar length of 10 if not specified.

The template also has a named parameter to reverse the direction of the bar to indicate deeper indentation- see #Indent below. "::{{od|reverse=5}}" produces:
Huh...
(←) This is the {od2} arrow instead of outdent line (indented one)

outside of Hidden

text on an HR line (4 dashes) goes to next line. {color} does not affect the HR

backgroundcolor does not affect the HR

Help Links[edit]

How to include link to help section:

Main page: Help:Wiki markup
Main page: Help:Cheatsheet

smallcaps and more (3 equals)[edit]

Small Caps Here | with pipe character  Done Hmph.  Not done Whoo. Template:Done
Question? Light bulb iconB Thank you

Parens and up to three curly (squirrely) brackets Template:!(

Manually-edited list of sub-pages
User:mwr0/SortableTurnout
User:mwr0/SortableTurnout2011
User:mwr0/SyntaxHighlight
User:mwr0/Syntax Highlight
Special:MyPage/Sandbox
User:mwr0/Formatting Cheat Sheet
User:mwr0/Sandbox
User:mwr0/Sandbox/Standard External References
User:mwr0/Work
Special:MyPage
Special:MyTalk
Special:look from/User:mwr0/
{End of section}
All pages with titles containing mwr via {intitle|mwr}.
All pages with titles beginning with mwr via {lookfrom|mwr}.
All pages with titles beginning with user:mwr via {lookfrom|user:mwr}.

Columns with {col-begin}, {col-break}, {col-end} (indented with empty column) —

Including a template as content[edit]

Below this text is a Hidden, using content={{template-name}}.
(Attempt to add subst: in those squirrels failed.)
Headers IN THAT TEMPLATE yield edit links to EDIT THE TEMPLATE!!
Since Hidden, Contents shows that header, but clicking it does not take you to that header
until after you use [show] to expand the Hidden.

——— The see also from Template:Column_templates ———

Column-generating template families[edit]

The templates listed here are not interchangeable. For example, using {{col-float}} with {{col-end}} instead of {{col-float-end}} would leave a <div>...</div> open, potentially harming any subsequent formatting.

Column templates
Type Family
Handles wiki
 table code?†
 Responsive/
Mobile suited 		Start template Column divider End template
Float "col-float" Yes Yes {{col-float}} {{col-float-break}} {{col-float-end}}
"columns-start" Yes Yes {{columns-start}} {{column}} {{columns-end}}
Columns "div col" Yes Yes {{div col}} – {{div col end}}
"columns-list" No Yes {{columns-list}} (wraps div col) – –
Flexbox "flex columns" No Yes {{flex columns}} – –
Table "col" Yes No {{col-begin}},
{{col-begin-fixed}} or
{{col-begin-small}} 		{{col-break}} or
{{col-2}} .. {{col-5}} 		{{col-end}}
† Can template handle the basic wiki markup {| | || |- |} used to create tables? If not, special templates that produce these elements (such as {{(!}}, {{!}}, {{!!}}, {{!-}}, {{!)}})—or HTML tags (<table>...</table>, <tr>...</tr>, etc.)—need to be used instead.

Other Stuff[edit]

Under 6 dashes ; next is 5 dashes

All pages with titles beginning with Template:tra

That was 4

That was 6

Text sizes DEMO (2 equals)[edit]

—These all now work —
larger-larger DEMO ("10% larger") •
big-big DEMO ("15% larger") •
large-large DEMO ('simply large') •
huge-huge DEMO (has unexplained sizing params) •
smaller-smaller DEMO ("15% smaller") •
resize-resize 0.8em DEMO
resize-resize 50% DEMO

A little definition list...

State
Queensland
Postcode
Cairns 4870
Townsville 4810

Prefix, Template, Category, Intitle, Policy Searching[edit]

{search|confabulation} yields (

)

  • wp=Wikipedia
  • gwp=GoogleWikipedia
  • g=Google
  • bwp=BingWikipedia
  • b=bing
  • eb=EcyclopediaBritannica
  • 1911=EB1911
  • co=BartlebyLexis
  • gct=GoogleComputerTerm@PCWorld
  • sw=ScienceWorld@Wolfram

This one doesn't treat template: as a Cirrus search keyword {search|template:source} (

)


This one does {search link|template:source} template:source

{find sources multi/all|Christen Gerhart}
Google · Google Books · Google Scholar · JSTOR · Free Google Images · Archive.org · Bing · Google News recent · New York Times · Wikipedia Reference Search · DuckDuckGo · VGRS · Google Newspapers

Template:look from  • Template:lookfrom (same) • Template:in title  • Template:intitle (same)

test of template link template {{tl|tl}} — {{tl}} — can generate links!

{Special:Prefixindex/Template:x} actually lists first ?741? starting Template:x —

Template Starting[edit]

{lookfrom|Template:} produces link to search pages listing all starting with Template: — All pages with titles beginning with Template:

Intitle|Template[edit]

{intitle|Template dead} produces link to search Wikipedia pages with 'Template' in title and 'dead' in title or body, but does not find Template:deadlink (bug?!) —All pages with titles containing Template dead —All pages with titles containing Template,dead —All pages with titles containing Template:dead

{{intitle}} example of {{intitle|Wales Welsh}} FAILS — All pages with titles containing Wales Welsh

A better intitle example would be {{intitle|Welsh rugby}} which of course FAILS

Trying {intitle|Template AND intitle:source} now All pages with titles containing Template AND intitle:source

{quicktemplates} (collapsed table contains following sections)[edit]

Quick templates

Images[edit]

[[File: | thumb | upright | right | alt= | caption ]]

Cite web[edit]

<ref>{{cite web
 |url= 
 |title= 
 |author= 
 |date= 
 |website= 
 |publisher= 
 |access-date= 
}}</ref>

Cite journal[edit]

<ref>{{cite journal
 |last1= 
 |first1= 
 |last2= 
 |first2= 
 |date= 
 |title= 
 |journal= 
 |volume= 
 |issue= 
 |pages= 
 |publisher= 
 |doi= 
 |url= 
 |access-date= 
}}</ref>

Cite book (short)[edit]

<ref>{{cite book
 |last= 
 |first= 
 |author-link= 
 |title= 
 |publisher= 
 |series= 
 |date=  
 |doi= 
 |isbn= 
}}</ref>

Cite book (extended)[edit]

<ref>{{cite book
 |last1        = 
 |first1       = 
 |last2        = 
 |first2       = 
 |author-link1 = 
 |author-link2 = 
 |editor       = 
 |title        = 
 |trans-title  = 
 |url          = 
 |access-date  = 
 |edition      = 
 |series       = 
 |volume       = 
 |date         = 
 |publisher    = 
 |location     = 
 |isbn         = 
 |doi          = 
 |page         = 
 |pages        = 
 |chapter      = 
}}</ref>

Metric conversions[edit]

Single input:
{{convert|original_value|original_unit|conversion_unit|abbr=on}}
Range of values:
{{convert|orig_val1|range|orig_val2|original_unit|conversion_unit|abbr=on}}
Examples:
{{convert|60|and|170|kg|lb|abbr=on}}
{{convert|18|°C|°F}}
{{convert|3.21|kg|lb}}

Variables[edit]

Code Effect
{{CURRENTWEEK}} 17
{{CURRENTDOW}} 0
{{CURRENTMONTH}} 04
{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} April
{{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}} April
{{CURRENTDAY}} 28
{{CURRENTDAYNAME}} Sunday
{{CURRENTYEAR}} 2024
{{CURRENTTIME}} 11:18
{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} 6,817,959
{{NUMBEROFPAGES}} 60,546,141
{{NUMBEROFUSERS}} 47,320,245
{{PAGENAME}} Mwr0
{{NAMESPACE}} User
{{REVISIONID}} -
{{REVISIONUSER}} Anomalocaris
{{localurl:pagename}} /wiki/Pagename
{{localurl:Wikipedia:Sandbox|action=edit}} /w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&action=edit
{{fullurl:pagename}} //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagename
{{fullurl:pagename|query_string}} //en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pagename&query_string
{{SERVER}} //en.wikipedia.org
{{ns:index}} e.g. '{{ns:1}}' fullname of namespace e.g 'Talk'
{{SITENAME}} Wikipedia

Recalling named reference[edit]

<ref name="NAMEOFREF" />

Quotes[edit]

{{blockquote |text= |sign= }}

Blockquotes[edit]

<blockquote>
<p>QUOTED PARAGRAPH</p>
<p>NAME, SOURCE, REFERENCE</p>
</blockquote>

About[edit]

(This page is about USE1. For other uses, see About (disambiguation).)
{{About|USE1}}
(This page is about USE1. For other uses, see PAGE2.)
{{About|USE1||PAGE2}}
(This page is about USE1. For USE2, see PAGE2.)
{{About|USE1|USE2|PAGE2}}
(This page is about USE1. For USE2, see PAGE2. For USE3, see PAGE3. For USE4, see PAGE4. For USE5, see PAGE5.)
{{About|USE1|USE2|PAGE2|USE3|PAGE3|USE4|PAGE4|USE5|PAGE5}}

Tables (borderless)[edit]

{|
|-
! scope="col" |COLUMN1
! scope="col" |COLUMN2
|-
|ROW1
|ROW1/COL2
|-
|ROW2
|ROW2/COL2
|}

Tables (wikitable)[edit]

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! scope="col" |COLUMN1
! scope="col" |COLUMN2
|-
|ROW1
|ROW1/COL2
|-
|ROW2
|ROW2/COL2
|}

Collapsible tables (Default: collapsed)[edit]

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;margin:0px;"
|- 
! style="width:20em;" |COLUMN1
! style="width:20em;" |COLUMN2
|- 
|ROW1
|ROW1/COL2
|-
|ROW2
|ROW2/COL2
|-
|}

Columns[edit]

{{col-begin|width=100%}}
{{col-break|width=}} 
{{col-end}}

Interwiki links[edit]

Wiki Shortcut
Wikimedia Commons [[commons:]]
Wikipedia [[w:]]
Wiktionary [[wikt:]]
Wikibooks [[b:]]
Wikisource [[s:]]
Wikispecies [[species:]]
Metawiki [[m:]]
MediaWiki [[mw:]]

Vandalism response templates[edit]

 * {{subst:uw-vandalism1|PageName}} ~~~~ (unintentional vandalism/test)
 * {{subst:uw-delete1|PageName}} ~~~~ (unintentional removal of content)
 * {{subst:uw-vandalism2|PageName}} ~~~~ (suitable for intentional nonsense or disruption)
 * {{subst:uw-delete2|PageName}} ~~~~ (variant for removal of content)
 * {{subst:uw-vandalism3|PageName}} ~~~~ ("please stop" for use after level 2 warning)
 * {{subst:uw-delete3|PageName}} ~~~~ (please stop removing content)
 * {{subst:uw-vandalism4|PageName}} ~~~~ (last warning for vandalism)
 * {{subst:uw-delete4|PageName}} ~~~~ (last warning for removing content)
 * {{subst:uw-vandalism4im|PageName}} ~~~~ (only warning; for severe or grotesque vandalism only)
 * {{subst:uw-delete4im|PageName}} ~~~~ (only warning; for many blankings in a short period of time)

Page citations[edit]

{{rp|page=}}

QUOTING Things[edit]

This is {Quote}

Cry "Havoc" and let slip the dogs of war.

— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, act III, scene I

And <blockquote>

Cry "Havoc" and let slip the dogs of war.

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, act III, scene I

But look at → Category:Quotation_templates!!!
Especially {Rquote}!













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Nothing can make the next section lines up OK.

Up-to-date directory listing (2 equals)[edit]

[ Next line shows using {!xt} vs. {xt} vs. {bxt} ]
{Special:Prefixindex/whatever} vs. {look from|whatever} vs. {in title|whatever}

The up-to-date listing below is from {{Special:Prefixindex/User:mwr0/}}
(Default is 3-across alphabetization... took a stab, columns(equals)1 works!)
(Which means that it alphabetizes DOWN the columns.)

[ Expand Section does not check that the date you give it is valid. ]

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