Improving
help and
project pages to ease Wikipedia editors' learning curve, by reducing text ambiguity, providing specific examples and linking to more specific guidance or resources whenever appropriate
{{
Lifetime}} — template to be substituted as {{subst:Lifetime|year of birth|year of death|sort key}}, to automatically generate "XXXX births" and "XXXX deaths" categories (and optionally DEFAULTSORT) for new articles about people
WP:REFNEST (nesting references, e.g. a footnote with a reference of its own).
Help:Shortened footnotes (named references with split sections for the short notes and the full references)
{{
rp|12,34}} —Lorem ipsum[1]: 12, 34 — and {{
rp|at=12:34}} —Lorem ipsum[1]: 12:34 — for appending page numbers, timestamps, etc. to individual instances of an existing general reference (which can then be reused)
212.13.33.178: Some of these are mine -- the IP's from where I currently live, anyway (Viana do Castelo, Portugal):
[3]. I am not sure all of them are mine, though. The ones about Utopia certainly are. I definitely hope the others are not =P. But the only one I can firmly assure wasnt me, is the first one, since I wasn't in Viana do Castelo prior to September 2004.
194.79.75.114: I didnt realise I wasnt logged in until I had made several edits. The contributions of that IP are mine or from someone at my university (I think most of them are mine but I haven't checked them all). See also
wikiscanner's entry on this IP.
82.155.122.172 (as of today, 11 dec 2008, a single edit -- the system somehow logged me off moments before I clicked the save button)
85.244.8.13 on 6 May 2009. I was too lazy to login.
Contributions/188.82.72.82, 8 February 2014. Using the Android mobile app, apparently my login had expired or something, but the interface still showed me as logged in. After a log-out/log-in, it worked properly.
Links
Recommended reading for critics of Wikipedia in academia:
Improving
help and
project pages to ease Wikipedia editors' learning curve, by reducing text ambiguity, providing specific examples and linking to more specific guidance or resources whenever appropriate
{{
Lifetime}} — template to be substituted as {{subst:Lifetime|year of birth|year of death|sort key}}, to automatically generate "XXXX births" and "XXXX deaths" categories (and optionally DEFAULTSORT) for new articles about people
WP:REFNEST (nesting references, e.g. a footnote with a reference of its own).
Help:Shortened footnotes (named references with split sections for the short notes and the full references)
{{
rp|12,34}} —Lorem ipsum[1]: 12, 34 — and {{
rp|at=12:34}} —Lorem ipsum[1]: 12:34 — for appending page numbers, timestamps, etc. to individual instances of an existing general reference (which can then be reused)
212.13.33.178: Some of these are mine -- the IP's from where I currently live, anyway (Viana do Castelo, Portugal):
[3]. I am not sure all of them are mine, though. The ones about Utopia certainly are. I definitely hope the others are not =P. But the only one I can firmly assure wasnt me, is the first one, since I wasn't in Viana do Castelo prior to September 2004.
194.79.75.114: I didnt realise I wasnt logged in until I had made several edits. The contributions of that IP are mine or from someone at my university (I think most of them are mine but I haven't checked them all). See also
wikiscanner's entry on this IP.
82.155.122.172 (as of today, 11 dec 2008, a single edit -- the system somehow logged me off moments before I clicked the save button)
85.244.8.13 on 6 May 2009. I was too lazy to login.
Contributions/188.82.72.82, 8 February 2014. Using the Android mobile app, apparently my login had expired or something, but the interface still showed me as logged in. After a log-out/log-in, it worked properly.
Links
Recommended reading for critics of Wikipedia in academia: