User:Fyslee/Useful links

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Thursday 12 Jun. 2008
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This page contains various links and examples useful to Wikipedians

Base page was copied from User:Karlhahn/usefulLinks.

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Purge Style guidelines Template messages Stub types Wikiquette Wiki markup

[edit] Online Science and Math papers (ArXiv)

Use the link above to find the archive.

[edit] Making External links

Use [http://website.com text] to make links. Example: Google search engine. Use class="plainlinks" to suppress the little external links symbol that appears to the right of the link. Example: <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.google.com Google search engine]</span> gives: Google search engine

[edit] Permitted HTML

See this Wikipedia reference

[edit] Wikitable syntax

{|class="wikitable"
|-
! Header 1 !! Header 2 !! Header 3
|-
| A1 || B1 || C1
|-
| A2 || B2 || C2
|}

gives:

Header 1 Header 2 Header 3
A1 B1 C1
A2 B2 C2

Using tables to align colums

::{| width="450"
| width="50%" | HCO<sub>3</sub><sup>–</sup> ↔ H<sup>+</sup> + CO<sub>3</sub><sup>2–</sup>   
| ''K<sub>a2</sub>'' = 5.61×10<sup>–11</sup> at 25 °C
|-
| another chemical equation
| ''K'' = some other value
|}

gives:

HCO3 ↔ H+ + CO32–    Ka2 = 5.61×10–11 at 25 °C
another chemical equation K = some other value
  • Sortable tables with: {| class="wikitable" class="sortable" or {| class="wikitable sortable"
example
C1 (ok) C2 (ok) C3 (wrong) C4 (wrong) C5 (wrong) C6 (wrong) C7 (ok) C8 (ok)
Lorem 1 -16.157 -16 433,617 433 617 433,617 433617
ipsum 2 -98.804 -98 59,390 59 390  59,390 59390
dolor 3 -147.757 -147 482,614 482 614 482,614 482614
sit 4 82.007 82 966,067 966 067 966,067 966067
amet, 5 -394.834 -394 958,710 958 710 958,710 958710
consectetur 6 -459.717 -459 702,225 702 225 702,225 702225
adipisicing 7 323.799 323 4,142 4 142   4,142 4142
elit 8 243.842 243 851,769 851 769 851,769 851769


Tables in tables

{| border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" 
|
{|class="wikitable" 
|-
! Header 1 !! Header 2 !! Header 3
|-
| A1 || B1 || C1
|-
| A2 || B2 || C2
|}
|
{|class="wikitable" 
|-
! Header 1 !! Header 2 !! Header 3
|-
| A1 || B1 || C1
|-
| A2 || B2 || C2
|}
|-
|
{|class="wikitable" 
|-
! Header 1 !! Header 2 !! Header 3
|-
| A1 || B1 || C1
|-
| A2 || B2 || C2
|}
|
{|class="wikitable" 
|-
! Header 1 !! Header 2 !! Header 3
|-
| A1 || B1 || C1
|-
| A2 || B2 || C2
|}
|}

gives

Header 1 Header 2 Header 3
A1 B1 C1
A2 B2 C2
Header 1 Header 2 Header 3
A1 B1 C1
A2 B2 C2
Header 1 Header 2 Header 3
A1 B1 C1
A2 B2 C2
Header 1 Header 2 Header 3
A1 B1 C1
A2 B2 C2

Chem-style tables

{| {{subst:User:Karlhahn/myBoxAttr}}
|- {{chembox header}}
| Header 1 || Header 2 || Header 3
|-
| A1 || B1 || C1
|-
| A2 || B2 || C2
|}

gives

Header 1 Header 2 Header 3
A1 B1 C1
A2 B2 C2

[edit] Image syntax

[[Image:beer.jpg|thumb|100px|left|Yummy]]

Gives:

Yummy
Yummy


[edit] Some nice(r) ones

[edit] Example of scrollable multiple images





























[edit] Categories

Put categories at the end of the source text (but before language links) in the form:

[[Category:<name of category>|<variant of article name that category should sort by>]]

Example for category on hypothetical biographical article for Joe Blow; putting him into the category of Schlemiels:

[[Category:Schlemiels|Blow, Joe]]

[edit] Useful category pages

Category:Mathematics_user_templates || Category:Wikipedian engineers || Category:Profession user templates || Category:Wikipedians interested in chemistry || Category:WikiProject user templates || Category:US state of residence user templates

[edit] Use of the leading colon in links

Within the linking brackets ( [[ ]] ), using a colon as the first character will provide the link without doing any special namespace function. For example, [[:Category:Schlemiels]] will provide a link to the Category:Schlemiels page without placing the page on which the link occurs into that category. [[:Image:PhotoOfASchlemiel.jpg]] will provide a link to the specified image page without placing the actual image on the page where the link occurs.

[edit] References

Multi 1:<ref name="refname"> The ref itself </ref>
Multi 2:<ref name="refname"/>

Single:<ref> The ref itself </ref>

Where they go:<references/>

Important note: the <ref> tag cannot be used inside a template.

[edit] Miscellaneous templates

[edit] My own template for contributions link

Use User:Karlhahn/userContribs template for making link to a user's contributions. Example: {{User:Karlhahn/userContribs|Karlhahn|my contributions}} gives:my contributions. This template is now also in main template namespace at template:userContribs. Usage: {{userContribs|<userID or IP>|[optional text]}}

[edit] Commons and Wiktionary

Use {{Commons|<topic name>}} and {{wiktionary|<topic name>}} to create pointer-boxes for Wiki commons and Wiktionary respectively.

[edit] Citation needed flag

Use {{fact|date=<date>}} to flag unsupported statements in articles.

[edit] User boxes

Master user box template is at template:userbox. See template talk:userbox for instructions on its use. See Category:userbox templates for specific user boxes.

[edit] User page deletions

Use {{db-owner}} tag at the top of a user page to mark the user page for deletion.

[edit] Unicode Symbols

See Miscellaneous_Symbols for how to do special symbols that won't render in IE 6 (using {{Unicode|<glyph>}}). Also see this table of unicode fonts for a wide variety of symbol codes and more about unicode here.

[edit] User warning templates

See user warning templates. Useful: {{Uw-test1}} | {{Uw-test2}} | {{Uw-test3}} | {{Uw-test4}} | {{bv}} | {{Uw-vandalism1}} | {{Uw-vandalism2}} | {{Uw-vandalism3}} | {{Uw-vandalism4}} | {{Uw-vandalism4im}}. Always use "subst:". First arg is name of page that was vandalized. I've also got my own template at user:Karlhahn/nonadminWarn to be posted as last measure.

See user talk header templates for various user talk IP classification templates.

[edit] To flag disruptive user for blocking

Use {{IPvandal|<IP address>}} on reporting page to flag anonymous vandal, use {{vandal|<userID>}} to report a user account. See block log for who's been blocked recently, by whom, and why.

[edit] My user pages

Special:Prefixindex/User:Karlhahn

[edit] Link to info on Popups

[edit] Formulas

[edit] Wikipedia science links

Wikipedia:Chemical_sources

[edit] Humor

Category:Wikipedia humor Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars Wikipedia:Unusual articles


[edit] Interesting