Help:Contents

Basic editing

For a starter about editing and the MediaWiki markup, see the external MediaWiki editing documentation.

Templates

The syntax for transcluding templates looks like this:

{{TemplateName|arg1|arg2|...}}

Templates available on this wiki are listed here (uncategorized) and here (categorized).

Interwiki Linking

See mw:Help:Links for how to write such links, and Special:InterWiki for a list of sites currently available on this wiki.

Footnotes and citations

This wiki uses the Cite.php extension to provide support for footnotes and citations. This external page should always have up-to-date details on how to write markup for Cite.php.

When you want to create a footnote or citation:

<ref>...</ref>

The text inside the ref tags will become the footnote or citation text, the reference to the footnote or citation inside the main tag will get an automatic number.

To create the footnote or citation list:

• Use <references/> in a section near the end of the text
• Note that on Wikipedia it is suggested to use the {{reflist}} template for 10+ references, instead of the <references/> element, because this template reduces the text to a smaller size. The template is not (yet) present on this wiki, though. For future reference: template link

To re-use a citation at different places in the main text:

• Add the name attribute to the ref tag
• Specify the same attribute value for all occurrences that should share the same citation
• One of the occurrences (not necessarily the first) must have content inside the ref tags, to provide the actual citation
• The other occurrences can use an empty tag
• For instance

bla bla <ref name="foo"/>
bla bla <ref name="foo">this is the citation</ref>
<references/>