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- internal links
- • [[London]] yields:
London
- • [[WP:Help|index of ''Help!'']] yields: [WP:Help|index of Help!]]
- • underscores & initial cap not required, but it's otherwise case-sensitive:
- [[
dim sum]] yields the same as [[
Dim_sum]] but not [[
DIM_SUM]]
- external links
- • [http://dr-bob.org] yields:
[1]
- • [http://dr-bob.org home <u>page</u>] yields:
home page
- • soft spaces inside brackets don't show up except between words
- • hard spaces inside brackets may cause words to vanish!
- anchors
- • link to any internal anchor-name using #, as in
- [[User:Flopzee#guidance]], which you should try now!—>
User:Flopzee#guidance
- • header & subheader titles are automatically anchor-names
-
Rabbits §§ 8.7.4 ("Fictional Ones" > "Potter" > "Imitators") could be
- [[Rabbits#Imitators|Flopzee]]
- • html tags can have anchors inserted in them
- <div id="foo"> <br id="foo"> <meta id="foo">
- with links written [[Smoking#foo|health benefits]]
- formatting links
- • html tags (<u>, <sub>, <sup>, etc) only work in the "name" section inside brackets.
- • Wiki ' works inside or outside brackets.
- code-as-content
- <nowiki> ... </nowiki>
- hide comments to other editors
- <!-- ... -->
- forbid a Table of Contents on the page
- __NOTOC__ ...or force it with __FORCETOC__
- hard space
- ·ALT+0160
- ·does NOT survive cut-&-paste in the editing box
- ·apparently works in strings
- ·width: 2 HS = 1 digit; HS is wider than soft-space
- bulleted outline or list
- begin code with a star "*"
- subcategories begin with 2 stars "**"; etc
- indent text
- • begin the line of code with a colon ":"
- • 2 colons indent twice as far
- • in the same line of code, a <br> keeps the next line of text indented in the same paragraph, BUT...
- • anywhere after a ¶ in colon(:)-indented or star(*)-indented code, a <br> re-sets the following text to the left margin.
- hanging subheads (like this whole section)
- • begin the line of code with a semicolon ";"
- • a new indented line of begins with return-colon "¶:" in the code
- • subheaded bold automatically (no choice)
"Clarity, content, and an NPOV are more important than format. Writers are not required to follow MoS rules." –Wiki MoS (edited)
• citation styles
- "It's more important to have clarity and consistency in an article's citations than to use this or that system." –
cite guide (edited)
- • examples?
• Italic text followed normal text looks better in many fonts using hard space + space. Compare:
- brick wall
- brick wall
The distinction for Wiki is "verifiability, not truth." –
WP:Verifiability
What is that screwy half-box up there?? I can't even find it in the html.
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