User:Ryft/Wiki aids
This page was created to serve as a central location where I can store, and later find, some of the more important or fundamental Wikipedia aids, such as help with Wikitext or templates for specific Reference types, etc. Will be constantly updated or in various ways altered as I find new information that is in some way helpful to me.
Wikipedia: information about articles
Wiki markup help
For further information on wikitext help:
Some useful templates:
For further information on Userpage help:
Hard-to-find wikitext tricks:
- To remove the arrow image from the external link:
<span class="plainlinks neverexpand"> [http://www.example.com/abcd.html Example] </span>
- To place text within a scrolling box:
<div style="height: 100px; overflow:auto; border: thin solid #5D8AA8"> Text goes here. </div>
- To set two Sections in side-by-side columns:
<div style="-moz-column-count:2; column-count:2;"> Sections go here. </div>
Creating new "Talk" page
To create a new "talk" page,
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Xxx_Xxxxx&action=edit§ion=new
Replace "Xxx_Xxxxx" with title of article.
Citation Templates
Further information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_templates
Web
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web
{{cite web
| first =
| last =
| author =
| authorlink =
| coauthors =
| title =
| url =
| archiveurl =
| work =
| publisher =
| location =
| page =
| pages =
| language =
| format =
| doi =
| date =
| year =
| month =
| archivedate =
| accessdate =
| quote =
}}
News
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_news
{{cite news
| title =
| author =
| first =
| last =
| authorlink =
| author2 =
| author3 =
| author4 =
| author5 =
| author6 =
| author7 =
| url =
| format =
| agency =
| work =
| publisher =
| location =
| isbn =
| issn =
| oclc =
| pmid =
| pmd =
| bibcode =
| doi =
| id =
| date =
| page =
| pages =
| accessdate = June 2, 2009
| language =
| quote =
| archiveurl =
| archivedate =
}}
Press release
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_press_release
{{cite press release
| title =
| publisher =
| date =
| format =
| language =
| url =
| accessdate =
| archiveurl =
| archivedate =
| quote =
}}
Journal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_journal
{{cite journal
| last =
| first =
| authorlink =
| coauthors =
| date =
| year =
| month =
| day =
| title =
| journal =
| volume =
| issue =
| series =
| pages =
| publisher =
| location =
| issn =
| pmid =
| pmc =
| doi =
| bibcode =
| oclc =
| id =
| url =
| language =
| format =
| accessdate =
| laysummary =
| laysource =
| laydate =
| quote =
}}
Television, radio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_episode
{{cite episode
| title =
| episodelink = name of wiki article
| url =
| series =
| serieslink =
| credits =
| network =
| station =
| city =
| airdate =
| began =
| ended =
| season =
| seriesno =
| number =
| minutes =
| transcript =
| transcripturl =
}}