Flopzee

links

internal links

• [[London]] yields:  London

• [[WP:Help|index of ''Help!'']] yields:  [WP:Help|index of Help!]]

• underscores & initial cap not required, but it's otherwise case-sensitive:

    [[dim sum]] yields the same as [[Dim_sum]] but not [[DIM_SUM]]

external links

• [http://dr-bob.org] yields:  [1]

• [http://dr-bob.org home <u>page</u>] yields:  home page

• soft spaces inside brackets don't show up except between words

• hard spaces inside brackets may cause words to vanish!

anchors

• link to any internal anchor-name using #, as in

   [[User:Flopzee#guidance]], which you should try now!—>   User:Flopzee#guidance

• header & subheader titles are automatically anchor-names

    Rabbits §§ 8.7.4 ("Fictional Ones" > "Potter" > "Imitators") could be

    [[Rabbits#Imitators|Flopzee]]

• html tags can have anchors inserted in them

    <div id="foo"> <br id="foo"> <meta id="foo">

    with links written [[Smoking#foo|health benefits]]

formatting links

• html tags (<u>, <sub>, <sup>, etc) only work in the "name" section inside brackets.

• Wiki ' works inside or  outside brackets.

other code

code-as-content

<nowiki>  ...  </nowiki>

hide comments to other editors

<!--    ...    -->

forbid a Table of Contents on the page

__NOTOC__   ...or force it with __FORCETOC__

hard space

·ALT+0160

·does NOT survive cut-&-paste in the editing box

·apparently works        in strings

·width:  2 HS = 1 digit;  HS is wider than soft-space

bulleted outline or list

• begin code with a star "*"
  • subcategories begin with 2 stars "**";  etc

indent text

• begin the line of code with a colon ":"

• 2 colons indent twice as far

• in the same line of code, a <br> keeps the next line of text indented in the same paragraph, BUT...

• anywhere after a ¶ in colon(:)-indented or star(*)-indented code, a <br> re-sets the following text to the left margin.

hanging subheads (like this whole section)

• begin the line of code with a semicolon ";"

• a new indented line of begins with return-colon "¶:" in the code

• subheaded bold automatically (no choice)

style

"Clarity, content, and an NPOV are more important than format. Writers are not required to follow MoS rules."  –Wiki MoS (edited)

• citation styles

"It's more important to have clarity and consistency in an article's citations than to use this or that system." –cite guide (edited)

• examples?

• Italic text followed normal text looks better in many fonts using hard space + space. Compare:

brick wall

brick  wall

content

The distinction for Wiki is "verifiability, not truth." –WP:Verifiability

What is that screwy half-box up there?? I can't even find it in the html.

guidance

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