My user-name for many years has been user:John Maynard Friedman, which is a twist on an occasional urban myth about my home city, Milton Keynes. Despite the myth, MK is not named after Milton Friedman and John Maynard Keynes. The name is centuries old and comes from that of an ancient village, now part of the new city. Though it could be that JMK is descended from the de Cahaignes, the Anglo-Norman family who once owned these parts.
Such a long-winded name seemed like a good idea at the time but had become irritating and I had been abbreviating it to đđđ˝ in my sig for some time. It is now my user name. " Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair".
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Maps and mapping
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It just shouldn't rely on color and/or font alone; if it's marked up with
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(which indicates keystrokes or other textual input, and is more loosely spec-defined than<code>...</code>
), that's a sufficient HTML/CSS handle for anyone with a screen reader to tell their software to do something specific when encountering that element. But if there's no specific element, just some CSS coloring and/or font-family on a span, all screen readers will ignore it as irrelevant visual fluff. That would mostly be a problem when the content coincides with an English word like a or I, though it would probably also affect punctuation characters (we need them to be interpreted as characters in and of themselves in these cases, not as part of the regular flow of the sentence; I think by default most screen readers would just ignore it as mis-placed punctuation (a typo), though some might even do something more wrong, e.g. misinterpret a single-quote character being presented as a glyph, as instead indicating the beginning of a quotation. While not everyone with a screen reader will do something to distinguish<kbd>
markup, at least they have the option, and it won't be dependent on using a unique-to-WP CSS class, either, so easier to deal with on their end.â SMcCandlish
Rather than outright copy the lead of another article, use {{ excerpt}} to replicate it automagically.
but... Wikipedia talk:Short description/Archive 9#Length â 40 or 90 characters??
My user-name for many years has been user:John Maynard Friedman, which is a twist on an occasional urban myth about my home city, Milton Keynes. Despite the myth, MK is not named after Milton Friedman and John Maynard Keynes. The name is centuries old and comes from that of an ancient village, now part of the new city. Though it could be that JMK is descended from the de Cahaignes, the Anglo-Norman family who once owned these parts.
Such a long-winded name seemed like a good idea at the time but had become irritating and I had been abbreviating it to đđđ˝ in my sig for some time. It is now my user name. " Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair".
Leave a message on my talk page ->
|display-authors=etal
in cite booksEquivalent to about ÂŁ21 million in 2019. [1]Good practice is to include {{ Inflation/fn}} in the note as it explains what index is being used.
ref=none
to the string to avoid.or
Following a link from an isbn= took me to worldcat.org and I found that it is far better than Google (or Amazon) when doing the reverse – I have a title but I need its ISBN. It also gives publisher, location, date, translator – just what one needs to complete a template:cite book.
Maps and mapping
Getting metro area population from NOMIS
ref=none
to the citation.CS1 maint:
= ignored
"[ ... ] You can also use the {{
oldid}}
template:
my sandbox or go through a special page
my sandbox." Gospel according to
Redrose64 🌹
{{db-g3}}
at the top of the page.{{ od}} restart indent sequence {{ Talk quote block}} for quotes in talk pages.
you can search any namespace - enter your search term in the search bar, choose "search for pages containing <search term>", then expand the "Search in" dropdown, where you can remove the article namespace and add the Wikipedia namespace instead.â Tollens
It just shouldn't rely on color and/or font alone; if it's marked up with
<kbd>...</kbd>
(which indicates keystrokes or other textual input, and is more loosely spec-defined than<code>...</code>
), that's a sufficient HTML/CSS handle for anyone with a screen reader to tell their software to do something specific when encountering that element. But if there's no specific element, just some CSS coloring and/or font-family on a span, all screen readers will ignore it as irrelevant visual fluff. That would mostly be a problem when the content coincides with an English word like a or I, though it would probably also affect punctuation characters (we need them to be interpreted as characters in and of themselves in these cases, not as part of the regular flow of the sentence; I think by default most screen readers would just ignore it as mis-placed punctuation (a typo), though some might even do something more wrong, e.g. misinterpret a single-quote character being presented as a glyph, as instead indicating the beginning of a quotation. While not everyone with a screen reader will do something to distinguish<kbd>
markup, at least they have the option, and it won't be dependent on using a unique-to-WP CSS class, either, so easier to deal with on their end.â SMcCandlish
Rather than outright copy the lead of another article, use {{ excerpt}} to replicate it automagically.
but... Wikipedia talk:Short description/Archive 9#Length â 40 or 90 characters??