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[edit]

Wiki markup help[edit]

For further information on wikitext help:

Some useful templates:

Cleanup: Expand and add

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[edit]

To create a new "talk" page,

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Xxx_Xxxxx&action=edit&section=new

Replace "Xxx_Xxxxx" with title of article.

Citation Templates[edit]

Further information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_templates

Web[edit]

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[edit]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_news

{{cite news
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 | id = 
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 | page = 
 | pages = 
 | accessdate = June 2, 2009
 | language = 
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 }}

Press release[edit]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_press_release

{{cite press release
 | title = 
 | publisher = 
 | date = 
 | format = 
 | language = 
 | url = 
 | accessdate = 
 | archiveurl = 
 | archivedate = 
 | quote = 
 }}

Journal[edit]

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[edit]

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 =
}}