Style Guide: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 13:22, 6 December 2023

A quick guide showing the wiki formatting used in the Neighborhood Economics Wiki.

Go to User's Guide for the complete MediaWiki user's guide.

Click on headings below to go to corresponding page in MediaWiki documentation.

Formatting

As Used	As Written	Description
Italic	''Italic'' (2 single quotes)
Bold	'''Bold''' (3 single quotes)
Bold Italic	'''''Bold Italic''''' (5 single quotes)

Links

As Used	As Written	Description
Internal Link	[[Internal Link]]	Links to another page in this wiki called Internal Link. If the page doesn't exist, it will be red.
Internal Link Display	[[Internal Link\|Internal Link Display]]	Links to another page in this wiki called Internal Link, but displayed as Internal Link Display
External Link	[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example External Link]	Links to external pages. If there is text after the URL, that will be displayed instead of the URL.

Lists

As Used	As Written
Bullet Item Nested Item	* Bullet Item ** Nested Item
Numbered Item Nested Item Nested Item	# Numbered Item ## Nested Item ## Nested Item
Item Definition	; Item : Definition

Tables

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Images

Create image file (png, gif, jpg, jpeg, webp) on your computer
Special:Upload
Chose File button
Edit File description fields, if needed
Upload file button
Edit wiki page to show image: [[File:filename.png]]

Specials

As Used	As Written	Description
See bottom of this page	== Links to this page == {{Special:WhatLinksHere/{{FULLPAGENAME}}}} Or, use "{{backlinks}}", which will have the same result as the text above See Template:backlinks	Shows all links to the current page.

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-A quick guide showing the wiki formatting most used in the Neighborhood Economics Wiki.
+A quick guide showing the wiki formatting used in the Neighborhood Economics Wiki.
+Go to [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents User's Guide] for the complete MediaWiki user's guide.
+Click on headings below to go to corresponding page in MediaWiki documentation.
 === [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting Formatting] ===
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 ! As Used !! As Written !! Description
 |-
-| [[Example]] || <nowiki>[[Example]]</nowiki> || Links to another page in this wiki called ''Example''. If the page doesn't exist, it will be red.
+| [[Internal Link]] || <nowiki>[[Internal Link]]</nowiki> || Links to another page in this wiki called ''Internal Link''. If the page doesn't exist, it will be red.
+|-
+| [[Internal Link|Internal Link Display]] || <nowiki>[[Internal Link|Internal Link Display]]</nowiki> || Links to another page in this wiki called ''Internal Link'', but displayed as ''Internal Link Display''
 |-
-| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example Example] || <nowiki>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example Example]</nowiki>|| Links to external pages.
+| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example External Link] || <nowiki>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example External Link]</nowiki>|| Links to external pages. If there is text after the URL, that will be displayed instead of the URL.
 |}
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 === [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables Tables] ===
 ...
+=== [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images Images] ===
+# Create image file (png, gif, jpg, jpeg, webp) on your computer
+# [[Special:Upload]]
+# ''Chose File'' button
+# Edit ''File description'' fields, if needed
+# ''Upload file'' button
+# Edit wiki page to show image: <nowiki>[[File:filename.png]]</nowiki>
 === Specials ===
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 | See bottom of this page ||
 <nowiki>== Links to this page ==</nowiki><br />
-<nowiki>{{Special:WhatLinksHere/{{FULLPAGENAME}}}}</nowiki>
+<nowiki>{{Special:WhatLinksHere/{{FULLPAGENAME}}}}</nowiki><br/>
+<br/>
+Or, use "<nowiki>{{backlinks}}</nowiki>", which will have the same result as the text above<br/>
+See [[Template:backlinks]]
 || Shows all links to the current page.
 |}