User:Mwr0

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This user has made more than 120 contributions to Wikipedia.

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

Shift+Alt+P to Preview Changes; Shift+Alt+S to Save Changes

TOC and FORCETOC

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)

@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)

Horizontal Rules (2 equals)

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

This is a Wikipedia user page.
This is not an encyclopedia article or the talk page for an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user whom this page is about may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia. The original page is located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mwr0.

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HTML character entities and the like (2 equals)

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 (…))
...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

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

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

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.

How many tics do what? (this long title wrapped w/o  )
n	formatted	descr
1	'one'	ticked
2	two	italics
3	three	bold
4	'four'	ticked bold
5	five	bold italic
6	'six'	ticked bold italic
7	''six''	quoted bold italic

First line of text following the table.

indent, outdent

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

How to include link to help section:

smallcaps and more (3 equals)

Small Caps Here | with pipe character Done Hmph. Not done Whoo. Template:Done
? B 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/

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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) —

{intitle|mwr}
{lookfrom|mwr}
{lookfrom|user:mwr}

All pages with titles containing mwr
All pages with titles beginning with mwr
All pages with titles beginning with user:mwr

Including a template as content

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

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}}
Float	"columns-start"	Yes	Yes	{{columns-start}}	{{column}}	{{columns-end}}
Columns	"div col"	Yes	Yes	{{div col}}	–	{{div col end}}
Columns	"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

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)

—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

{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

Wikipedia#Policies_and_laws
Wikipedia:List_of_policies_and_guidelines
mw:Help:CirrusSearch
Wikilink Help:Searching Help:Searching and {main|Help:Searching}
Special:Search

Category:Search templates
Category:Wikipedia templates (heirarchical listing)
Category:Wikipedia help templates

{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

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

Intitle|Template

{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

Is a search for intitle:Wales Welsh
instead of intitle:Wales intitle:Welsh (which has zero matches)
works if {{intitle|Wales,Welsh}} — >>> All pages with titles containing Wales,Welsh

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

Is a search for intitle:Welsh rugby same as search for rugby intitle:Welsh
Should be a search for intitle:Welsh intitle:rugby
Trying {{intitle|Welsh intitle:rugby}} produces — All pages with titles containing Welsh intitle:rugby
Don't ask me what the {{intitle}} 'OR' example does — All pages with titles containing Welsh OR rugby
Or if this searches for both words in the title — All pages with titles containing Welsh AND rugby
works if {{intitle|Welsh,rugby}} — >>> All pages with titles containing Welsh,rugby

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

{quicktemplates} (collapsed table contains following sections)

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)

<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

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

Code	Effect
{{CURRENTWEEK}}	45
{{CURRENTDOW}}	0
{{CURRENTMONTH}}	11
{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}	November
{{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}}	November
{{CURRENTDAY}}	10
{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}	Sunday
{{CURRENTYEAR}}	2024
{{CURRENTTIME}}	00:42
{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}	6,908,299
{{NUMBEROFPAGES}}	61,810,217
{{NUMBEROFUSERS}}	48,240,322
{{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

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

Vandalism response templates

 * {{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

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}!

“

Back up, you creep.

Get away from me.

I know you love to intimidate women,
but you can’t intimidate me, so back up.

”

— Hillary Clinton's thoughts about Trump,

(during the Presidential Debate)

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

Nothing can make the next section lines up OK.

Up-to-date directory listing (2 equals)

[ 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. ]