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Technical information Tools to make Wikipedia work better. Catalogue of CSS classes used on the English Wikipedia Editing articles of such length that...
Click to read more »browse and explore Wikipedia articles; many can be found at Wikipedia:Contents. See our disclaimer for cautions about Wikipedia's limitations. For mobile...
Click to read more »has two features to make readers' lives easier—sections and tables of contents. Without these, most Wikipedia articles would be a mass of text, unbroken...
Click to read more »teachers, librarians and administrators might have. Technical – answers some questions related to the technical workings. (Miscellaneous) – questions that do...
Click to read more »browse and explore Wikipedia articles; many can be found at Wikipedia:Contents. Also see our disclaimer for cautions about Wikipedia's limitations. For...
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Click to read more »produces "Wikipedia", while {{sitename}} produces mw:Help:Magic words#Technical metadata This page is a soft redirect. Whitespace is not counted in from...
Click to read more »variety of how-to and information pages, written to differing levels of technical expertise and in widely varying styles. This variety however has its flaws:...
Click to read more »be divided into sections, using the section heading syntax. A table of contents (ToC) is automatically generated for pages and talk pages that are using...
Click to read more »example, certain magic words are used to suppress or position the table of contents, disable indexing by external search engines, or produce output dynamically...
Click to read more »Prefix-based search as they don't technically exist as pages. Because Special:Allmessages displays all system messages and it's contents (the page is over 1 MB)...
Click to read more »links" – a list of pages that embed the file. "Metadata" (images only) – technical information about the file and the equipment used to create it (camera...
Click to read more »entire contents of the page (Ctrl+A on Windows, ⌘ Cmd+A on Macintosh), and then copy it (Ctrl+C on Windows, ⌘ Cmd+C on Macintosh) Paste the contents into...
Click to read more »in some Wikipedia articles. In the source code of a Wikipedia page, the contents of most footnotes are written where the citation number appears in the...
Click to read more »the sound clip link. A file description page consists of five parts: The contents of the file itself. The editable section: This should include a description...
Click to read more »site-wide subtitle that displays the contents of new watchlist items. mw:Help:Watching pages Watchlist table (MediaWiki technical documentation) Wikipedia:Database...
Click to read more »referred to as a nested footnote. There are also several ways to combine the contents of a shortened citation and explanatory note within a single footnote....
Click to read more »librarians and administrators might have. Technical — answers some questions related to the technical workings of the site. (Miscellaneous) — ...
Click to read more »community · Resources and lists · Account settings and maintenance · Technical information Help Wikipedia Navigating Wikipedia [Edit] A place to learn...
Click to read more »to read through all the Wikipedia documentation. Check out the table of contents to spot unfamiliar aspects of Wikipedia, so you can turn immediately to...
Click to read more »the best articles, pictures, lists and portals in the encyclopedia. And "Contents" has guides to browsing Wikipedia. These portals are good places to start...
Click to read more »example, on English Wikipedia, the header is used to create a table of contents. The bottom of the information can be customised via MediaWiki:Pageinfo-footer...
Click to read more »(but not technical matters) Wikimedia forum – for miscellaneous queries about the Wikimedia Foundation or any of its projects Help:Contents Wikibooks:Reading...
Click to read more »rendered in a single full-width column; this cannot be changed The table of contents is included Tables, including most infoboxes, are rendered. Some small...
Click to read more »capitalized. For initial lower-case letters, as in Category:macOS, see the technical restrictions page. On Wikipedia, it is customary to place category declarations...
Click to read more »Keeping track of changes Track the evolution of a page or follow a user Technical information Tools for advanced users and troubleshooting information View...
Click to read more »pages, such as the Main Page, Village Pumps, Community Portal, Contents, and Help:Contents. Wikipedia uses this colour scheme on its Main Page and, for...
Click to read more »Keeping track of changes Track the evolution of a page or follow a user Technical information Tools for advanced users and troubleshooting information Site...
Click to read more »identified by the link. Normally the redirected page includes the entire contents of the target page as if the section fragment wasn't specified, and uses...
Click to read more »contains advice about panoramas and avoiding image stackups. There is also a technical document describing the syntax and a simple guide for beginners. The same...
Click to read more »into a <div> with a style="margin-left: 2em;", causing indentation of the contents. This is a versatile but potentially confusing method, as it allows starting...
Click to read more »site, which makes use of the larger screen size to, e.g., show a table of contents and display all article sections open by default. This mobile version is...
Click to read more »Keeping track of changes Track the evolution of a page or follow a user Technical information Tools for advanced users and troubleshooting information View...
Click to read more »content – style guidelines for collapsing content Help:Table Help:Table of contents Templates: Category:Collapse templates (43) mw:Manual:Collapsible elements...
Click to read more »</pre> and its alternatives are typically used to display code; their contents are rendered in monospace with a frame and different background colour...
Click to read more »Edit box showing the wikitext markup. You can change the formatting and contents of the page by changing what is written in this box. Edit box showing the...
Click to read more »article has sections if you see a table of contents near the top of the article. Even if there is no table of contents, if you see headings within an article...
Click to read more »technologies. Usage of access keys is currently discouraged in the online contents and applications.[needs update] But presence of access keys is also an...
Click to read more »buried deeper in the same article. An automatically generated table of contents has links to sections on the page. A self-link is indirect if it links...
Click to read more »Wikipedia has many hundreds of pages of detailed policies, guidelines, technical advice, and essays, not to mention specialized pages that simply list...
Click to read more »notes referred to in the hidden cells won't get suppressed with the other contents, so they will continue to be listed at the end of an article without any...
Click to read more »edit; prop=info|revisions can be used to retrieve both the token and page contents in one query (example). When submitting the edit, set the starttimestamp...
Click to read more »"boxes" (which generally appear floating to the right of the table of contents), and banners. Some pages use one or the other, and some use both. Templates...
Click to read more »source (what Wikipedia calls citing a source), you also need to learn some technical matters – how Wikipedia software handles external links, and how it creates...
Click to read more »are logged in. Opens a page with lots of tabs. Starts out showing the contents of the first tab, User Profile. The options listed on these tabs let you...
Click to read more »section heading does not appear in blue in the linked text or the table of contents. Moreover, links to section headings containing LaTeX formulas do not always...
Click to read more »involvement in software development, documenting, and technical support. Godmund Schick (technical reviewer) is an avid coffee drinker who periodically...
Click to read more »markup. For example, a <div>...</div> element with a green border and its contents floated to the right would be created with <div style="float:right; border:thin...
Click to read more »obligations. This applies to any substantial content, and not just article contents. Currently, no template can facilitate this LST markup because it is necessary...
Click to read more »between differing foreign language Wikipedias Help:Menu/Links, table of contents for help pages about links and references mw:Help:Interwiki linking, help...
Click to read more »project pages, for example, also leads to the search page. While the entire contents of the search page is included in the search results page, it is a distinct...
Click to read more »page to float the table of contents to the upper-right corner of the page (see the section about floating the table of contents for details). Finally, at...
Click to read more »Wiki.png|alt=The Wikipedia logo|Captioned with alt text Wiki.png|[[Help:Contents/Links|Links]] can be put in captions. Wiki.png|Full [[MediaWiki]]<br />[[syntax]]...
Click to read more »formatting, the MoS probably has a recommendation (you can search its contents here). Remember, the MoS is a guideline; you don't need to have the whole...
Click to read more »sections and tables of contents (see the section about headings). Tweak the table of contents. Avoid a lengthy table of contents, and long headings. If...
Click to read more »column. It does this by looking at the first five rows and evaluating their contents. This process works most of the time but can also easily get confused if...
Click to read more »in a special way: it allows viewing of the margins of the page (not the contents) on the basis of the style info in the page, provided that the skin used...
Click to read more »Documentation and more options for the CSS vertical-align property is here. The contents of a cell can be indented or padded on any side. Also, the text can be...
Click to read more »maintenance templates per se, but they're similar. They similarly change the contents of an article as well as adding one or more categories at the bottom of...
Click to read more »Chapter 15: Adding images. Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) (shortcut: WP:VPT) is for discussing technical Wikipedia issues. More often than not, those questions...
Click to read more »created your account (none of which can be changed), and a bunch of other technical miscellany that is not discussed in this book. The most important things...
Click to read more »Re: Thread at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive_103#Download as PDF. Summary: In some viewers, such as Evince and Okular, the empty title field...
Click to read more »community Departments Meetups WikiProjects Overview FAQ Village pump policy technical proposals idea lab wikimedia misc Newsletters: Signpost Library Newsletter...
Click to read more »through code one line at a time, and hover over variables to see their contents at the time of execution. IDEs that easily support Lua step debugging include...
Click to read more »community Departments Meetups WikiProjects Overview FAQ Village pump policy technical proposals idea lab wikimedia misc Newsletters: Signpost Library Newsletter...
Click to read more »community Departments Meetups WikiProjects Overview FAQ Village pump policy technical proposals idea lab wikimedia misc Newsletters: Signpost Library Newsletter...
Click to read more »important, such as steps in a process, or chronological lists. Tip: The technical page Help:List describes more than a dozen ways to modify lists: Roman...
Click to read more »of the Wikimedia Foundation "Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem" error messages, but then I was able to re-render the Dog book...
Click to read more »Wikipedia technical help Get personal technical help at the Teahouse, help desk, village pump (technical), talk pages, or IRC. General technical help Bypass...
Click to read more »Special:Export page, and follow the easy instructions there. When you do paste the contents of the export into a document, do so as unformatted text; that's faster...
Click to read more »WikiProject Texas, and the history of the page shows no postings relating to the contents of the article. So, there's no indication of importance/significance. (The...
Click to read more »doesn't work currently. There is a discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 131#Download as PDF does not print infoboxes. PrimeHunter (talk)...
Click to read more »copy or import, to see at what point the problem occurs. You'll find technical information about JavaScript (user scripts) here: Wikipedia:WikiProject...
Click to read more »ever-growing distance, nay - alienation - between WP bureaucrats and the technical&user community. Any comments?? -- Kku 10:12, 26 January 2015 (UTC) If...
Click to read more »community Departments Meetups WikiProjects Overview FAQ Village pump policy technical proposals idea lab wikimedia misc Newsletters: Signpost Library Newsletter...
Click to read more »community Departments Meetups WikiProjects Overview FAQ Village pump policy technical proposals idea lab wikimedia misc Newsletters: Signpost Library Newsletter...
Click to read more »org/wiki/Help_talk:Editing/feedback#Allow_Feedback_to_be_categorized_in_the_contents_list._Allow_feedback_voting.2Fsupporting. Please Notify me if feedback...
Click to read more »subst: is added after the opening braces, as in {{subst:Please ping}}. The contents of {{Please ping}} will then be inserted ("expanded") in the location where...
Click to read more »"en" and the English Wikipedia's Internet address is en.wikipedia.org, technically a subdomain of wikipedia.org. The codes largely come from two international...
Click to read more »there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but different contents, make the title of each such section unique by adding at the end of it...
Click to read more »this feedback deals strictly with internal hyperlinks, not the actual contents list. A suggested solution would be to incorporate support for "re-direct...
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Click to read more »links, but ignores references to citations. This is pretty bad, since a technical article has many citations. An example is the Mabel Hokin biography: the...
Click to read more »background useful for understanding the choices provided, along with technical bafflegab oriented upon which platforms support reading which formats...
Click to read more »there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but different contents, make the title of each such section unique by adding at the end of it...
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