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Versio hetkellä 6. syyskuuta 2005 kello 11.30 – tehnyt RKM (keskustelu | muokkaukset) (→Editing Basics)
The "meat" is back, but there are too many tips-and-tricks, and some of the writing is very verbose. Please help!
This Editing Overview is meant as a quick reference, with some "getting started" help. It has a lot of wikitext examples. Each of the topics covered here is covered somewhere else in more detail. Please look in the box on the right for the topic you are interested in. You may want to keep this page open in a separate browser window for reference while you edit.
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Editing Basics
- Start editing
- To start editing a MediaWiki page, click on the "Edit this page" (or just "edit") link at one of its edges. This will bring you to the edit page: a page with a text box containing the wikitext: the editable source code from which the server produces the webpage. If you just want to experiment, please do so in the sandbox, not here.
- Summarize your changes
- You should write a short edit summary in the small field below the edit-box. You may use shorthand to describe your changes, as described in the legend.
- Preview before saving
- When you have finished, press preview to see how your changes will look -- before you make them permanent. Repeat the edit/preview process until you are satisfied, then click "Save" and your changes will be immediately applied to the article.
Wikitext markup -- making your page look the way you want it
If you want to try out things without danger of doing any harm, you can do so in the Sandbox.
Organizing your writing: Sections, paragraphs, lists and lines
| What it looks like | What you type |
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Start sections with header lines Note: Single equal signs give the highest level heading, like the page title; usually projects have the convention not to use them.
New section Subsection Sub-subsection |
== New section == === Subsection === ==== Sub-subsection ==== |
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A single newline has no effect on the layout. But an empty line starts a new paragraph, or ends a list or indented part. (<p> disables this paragraphing until </p> or the end of the section) (in Cologne Blue two newlines and a div tag give just one newline; in the order newline, div tag, newline, the result is two newlines) You can make the wikitext more readable by putting in newlines. You might find this causes future problems -- see w:Wikipedia:Don't use line breaks for details. |
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. (The HTML tag <br> is sufficient. The system produces the XHTML code <br />.) |
You can break lines<br> without starting a new paragraph. |
marks the end of the list.
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* Unordered 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 *#* or break lines<br>in lists |
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Definition list
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; word : definition of the word ; longer phrase : phrase defined |
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 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 and
hence less readable. Never start ordinary lines with spaces. |
IF a line of plain text starts with a space
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;
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<center>Centered text.</center> |
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| A: above
and below. If you don't use a section header, you don't get a TOC entry. |
A horizontal dividing line: above ---- and below. |
Links, URLs
More information at Help:Link
Internal Links
General notes:
- Enclose the target name in double square brackets -- "[[" and "]]"
- First letter of target name is automatically capitalized
- Spaces are represented as underscores (but don't do underscores yourself)
- Links to nonexistant pages are shown in red -- [[MediaWiki User's Guide: Starting a new page|]] tells about creating the page.
- When the mouse cursor "hovers" over the link, you see a "hover box" containing...
| What it looks like | What you type |
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Sue is reading the official position (or Official positions). |
Sue is reading the [[official position]]s (or [[Official position]]). |
A link to the page on another wiki (e.g. the same subject in another language)
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*For more info see [[m:Help:Interwiki linking]]. *[[:fr:Wikipédia:Aide]]. |
If the section doesn't exist, the link goes to the top of the page |
*[[List of cities by country#Morocco]]. *[[List of cities by country#Sealand]]. |
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Use a pipe "|" to create a link label: |
*[[Help:Links|About Links]] *[[List of cities by country#Morocco| Cities in Morocco]] |
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"blank" pipes hide stuff:
After you save, the server automatically fills in the link label. |
*In parentheses: [[kingdom (biology)|]]. *Namespace: [[Wikipedia:Village pump|]]. |
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. |
You should "sign" your comments on talk pages: The server will fill in the link after you save. |
You should "sign" your comments on talk pages: : Your user name: ~~~ : Or your user name plus date/time: ~~~~ |
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one article title to another with this special link. |
#REDIRECT [[United States]] |
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ISBN 0123456789X RFC 123 |
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. |
"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]] |
External Links
| Nupedia, [1] | [http://www.nupedia.com Nupedia], [http://www.nupedia.com] |
Or just give the URL: http://www.nupedia.com.
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Or just give the URL: http://www.nupedia.com. |
Images, Video, and Sounds
| What it looks like | What you type |
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A picture: [[Image:Wiki.png]] or, with alternative text (strongly encouraged) [[Image:Wiki.png| Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia]]s render alternative text when not displaying an image -- for example, when the image isn't loaded, or in a text-only browser, or when spoken aloud. See for help on choosing alternative text. See for more options. There is more information on resizing and other formatting tricks. |
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[[:Image:Wiki.png]] [[media:Wiki.png|Wikipedia]] |
| Other Media Links -- Video and Sounds
Use a "media" link: Sound
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[[media:Sg_mrob.ogg|Sound]] |
Character formatting
| What it looks like | What you type |
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Emphasize, strongly, very strongly.
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''Emphasize'', '''strongly''', '''''very strongly'''''. |
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You can also write italic and bold if the desired effect is a specific font style rather than emphasis, as in mathematical formulas:
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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>. |
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Umlauts and accents: (See MediaWiki User's Guide: Creating special characters) |
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
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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.
1 [[hectare]] = [[1 E4 m²]]
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| 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 ς τ υ φ χ ψ ω Γ Δ Θ Λ Ξ Π Σ Φ Ψ Ω |
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Math characters: |
∫ ∑ ∏ √ − ± ∞ ≈ ∝ ≡ ≠ ≤ ≥ × · ÷ ∂ ′ ″ ∇ ‰ ° ∴ ℵ ø ∈ ∉ ∩ ∪ ⊂ ⊃ ⊆ ⊇ ¬ ∧ ∨ ∃ ∀ ⇒ ⇔ → ↔ ↑ |
| x2 ≥ 0 true. | <i>x</i><sup>2</sup> ≥ 0 true. |
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Complicated formulae:
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<math>\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{x^n}{n!}</math>
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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></pre> |