User:O1ive/Useful Stuff

• Wikipedia:Redirect
• Wikipedia:List of encyclopedia topics

Tools

Contribution counter

• Check your edit count
• Contrib counter and more
• User:Interiot/Tool2/code.js

Citation

 {{specify}}  adds a request for a citation (source information). 
Appearing as [specify], used for information that needs citations to make it complete, 
or quotations that are used without citations

 {{fact}}  adds a request for a citation (source information). 
Appearing as [citation needed], 
used in the body of an article as a request for other editors to find citations:
1. to label a passage which is incomplete without a cited source of information
2. to label a quotation which lacks a citation

IP search

• IP address search

References

<ref name="name or number">[link] text</ref> or just <ref>[link] text</ref>

==References==

{{subst:footnotes}}

if the same ref name is used again the reference will have the same number but be named abc etc

to just add a foot note, leave the [link] out, just insert text.

Notes

See List of circulating currencies ^[A] for how to create "notes" seperate from references.

{{ref label|insert-name|A|A}}

==Notes==

:{{note label|insert-name|A|A}}

Notes

^A The page received a top award for its importance.

Other Wiki sites

• [[:wikinews:Article name|article use]] links though to the wikinews pages - e.g. Prince Edward

• [[:de:Article name|article use]] links to the German wiki - e.g. Team Sparkasse

• [[:wiktionary:Article name|article use]] links to the dictionary - e.g. derogatively

Article

{{main|Article}}

Main article: Article

{{Otheruses4|1|2|3}}

This page is about 1. For 2, see 3.

This article is about {{{1}}}. For {{{2}}}, see [[{{{3}}}]]

Contents

To force a table of contents to appear use __TOC__

No contents

"_ _ N O T O C _ _" typed as "__NOTOC__"

Contents on the right

{{TOC right}}

To use on Category pages

Use one of these on pages whose title begins with "Category:".

Alphabetical lists

What to type	What it makes
{{Category TOC}} Talk
{{Category TOC|numerals=no}} Talk

Editing

Forcing a break

Stops everything linking together, use
<br style="clear:both;"/>

or to clear the left side only
<br style="clear:left;"/>

Indented Block Quote

<blockquote>Quote</blockquote>

For quotations within body of article

 : to Indent

to Indent

 :: etc

etc

Columns

{| valign="top"
|-
|<ul><li>a<li>bb<li>ccc</ul>
|<ul><li>ddd<li>ee<li>f</ul>
|}

a bb ccc

ddd ee f

{| valign="top"
|-
|<ul><li>a<li>bb<li>ccc</ul>
|<ul><li>ddd<li>ee<li>f</ul>
|<ul><li>g<li>hh<li>iii</ul>
|<ul><li>jjj<li>kk<li>l</ul>
|}

a bb ccc

ddd ee f

g hh iii

jjj kk l

See Template:Col-begin

{{col-begin}}
 {{col-2}}
 * a
 * b
 * c
 {{col-2}}
 * d
 * e
 * f
 {{col-end}}

• a
• b
• c

• d
• e
• f

Tables

Meta:MediaWiki User's Guide: Using tables

<center>
{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5
| This
| is
|- 
| a
| '''table'''
|}
</center>

This	is
a	table

{| border="1"
|+ The table's caption
! Column heading 1 !! Column heading 2 !! Column heading 3
|-
! Row heading 1
| Cell 2 || Cell 3
|-
! Row heading A
| Cell B || Cell C
|}

The table's caption

Column heading 1	Column heading 2	Column heading 3
Row heading 1	Cell 2	Cell 3
Row heading A	Cell B	Cell C

Sundry

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style

• {{gutenberg|no=1023|name=Bleak House}}
• Bleak House at Project Gutenberg

• {{reqmap}} to request a map to be added to an article.

Deleting self generated pages

{{db-self}}

Hidden comments within code

<!--

To add a comment within any code, place between these markers
use <nowiki> </nowiki> if required

-->

this will not appear on the page but will be visible when editing

Interesting Pages

• Wikipedia Signpost
• Forer effect
• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Helferlein/VBA-Macro_for_EXCEL_tableconversion
• Template:AfD in 3 steps

Links to recent new pages which assits google to find them - All New: 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 Orphaned: 500 1001 1501

Talk

Unsigned

The template {{unsigned2}} is useful for copying and pasting from the edit history, where the timestamp appears before the username. {{unsigned2}} also automatically adds the (UTC) at the end.

Wikimarkup	Resulting code	Resulting display
{{subst:unsigned2|date|user name or ip}}	{{subst:unsigned2|23:59, 1 April, 2006|Example}}	— Preceding unsigned comment added by Example (talk • contribs) 23:59, 1 April, 2006

Pictures

Wikipedia:Image markup

Wikipedia:Picture tutorial

Icons

• [[Image:Symbol keep vote.svg|20px]]
• [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]]
• [[Image:Symbol oppose vote.svg|20px]]