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Help talk:Inputbox

Meta:Help:Inputbox authors and history
= From Meta:Help talk:Inputbox =
 * 03:15, 25 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Changed initial template.)
 * 16:16, 23 November 2005 User:217.161.104.2
 * 23:39, 21 November 2005 User:201.215.151.86
 * 17:41, 17 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed hyperlinks that break when this page is copied to other projects.)
 * 22:52, 28 October 2005 User:140.247.31.108
 * 08:29, 10 October 2005 User:AlanBarrett (→Box types - Say what the text field specifies in each case.)
 * 18:40, 9 October 2005 User:69.57.247.141
 * 18:37, 9 October 2005 User:69.57.247.141 (→Installation)
 * 08:07, 2 October 2005 User:Jeffq m (→Caveats - grammar tweak)
 * 00:25, 19 September 2005 User:Astronouth7303 m (→Parameters - typo)
 * 23:39, 16 September 2005 User:84.131.27.151 (useable download link)
 * 17:37, 11 September 2005 User:Eloquence (rv experiment)
 * 17:09, 11 September 2005 User:203.101.103.131
 * 09:14, 3 September 2005 User:Korrigan m (interlanguage links)
 * 13:46, 31 August 2005 User:Marc.M (→Installation)
 * 23:43, 29 August 2005 User:Glimz (wikimedia sites are no longer 1.5)
 * 17:29, 26 August 2005 User:Eloquence (remove report, note that inputbox requires mediawiki 1.5)
 * 17:14, 26 August 2005 User:68.193.5.72
 * 17:14, 26 August 2005 User:68.193.5.72
 * 16:51, 26 August 2005 User:68.193.5.72
 * 16:50, 26 August 2005 User:68.193.5.72
 * 07:22, 26 August 2005 User:Patrick (rm error report which is not specific: =Check the inputbox.php code. This extension is not working properly!=)
 * 05:40, 26 August 2005 User:68.193.5.72
 * 05:39, 26 August 2005 User:68.193.5.72
 * 17:42, 23 July 2005 User:80.60.20.244 (→Installation - some formatting)
 * 17:36, 23 July 2005 User:80.60.20.244 (Add Installation instructions)
 * 21:05, 14 July 2005 User:Patrick (Applying create to an existing page simply gives the edit page. In that case editintro and preload are ignored.)
 * 20:37, 14 July 2005 User:Patrick (→Box types - The button labels can be specified, see below; the defaults are)
 * 15:47, 14 July 2005 User:Patrick (Add one or more sections to an existing page, or create a page, with an edit summary that is automatically the same as the (first) new section header.)
 * 21:08, 13 July 2005 User:Eloquence (refactor, add new parameters)
 * 07:20, 13 July 2005 User:Patrick (==Impossibility to use an expression for a parameter value==)
 * 06:53, 13 July 2005 User:Patrick (Optionally the search box is preloaded with the specified default, which can be edited.)
 * 06:49, 13 July 2005 User:Patrick (example bgcolor)
 * 06:38, 13 July 2005 User:Patrick (rephrase)
 * 01:55, 13 July 2005 User:Eloquence (+new features)
 * 10:45, 6 July 2005 User:Patrick m (→Create)
 * 10:44, 6 July 2005 User:Patrick (→Create - w:Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#User talk inputbox)
 * 10:42, 6 July 2005 User:Patrick m (→Create)
 * 10:41, 6 July 2005 User:Patrick (→Create - the number of characters fitting may not be exactly this value, but, anyway, larger names are still possible, with scrolling)
 * 10:09, 6 July 2005 User:Patrick m
 * 10:04, 6 July 2005 User:Patrick m (→Create)
 * 10:01, 6 July 2005 User:Patrick (Template:Standard content for new page)
 * 09:58, 6 July 2005 User:Patrick (Template:Instructions)
 * 09:43, 6 July 2005 User:Patrick (It avoids not only repetitious typing, but is even more convenient than copy-and-pasting of "subst'íng" the standard text. For an example, see Template talk:New city in Morocco.)
 * 09:13, 6 July 2005 User:Patrick
 * 09:11, 6 July 2005 User:Patrick (→Create - The feature allows creating a new page, starting with some standard content for convenience and standardization. For an example, see Template talk:New city in Morocco.)
 * 09:04, 6 July 2005 User:Patrick m (Inputbox extension moved to Help:Inputbox)
 * 08:30, 6 July 2005 User:Patrick m (→Create)
 * 08:18, 6 July 2005 User:Patrick m
 * 08:16, 6 July 2005 User:Patrick (If the name of an existing page is entered in the box, then its usual edit page appears: editintro and preload are ignored.)
 * 08:07, 6 July 2005 User:Patrick (If editintro is either not specified or a non-existing page, then this default is used.)
 * 07:51, 6 July 2005 User:Patrick
 * 07:37, 6 July 2005 User:Patrick m
 * 07:25, 6 July 2005 User:Patrick m
 * 07:22, 6 July 2005 User:Patrick (clarify)
 * 07:15, 6 July 2005 User:Patrick
 * 06:07, 3 July 2005 User:Angela (update)
 * 15:18, 2 July 2005 User:Eloquence m (+features)
 * 13:43, 2 July 2005 User:Eloquence m
 * 13:42, 2 July 2005 User:Eloquence (documentation)

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Help:Interwiki linking

General
By adding a prefix to another project, internal link style ("prefixed internal link style") can be used to link to a page of another project. For example,  links to the interwiki article on the English Wikipedia. This is called interwiki. For each project, an interwiki map (a list of target projects with their prefixes) is specified (example). These target projects need not use MediaWiki and need not even be a wiki.

A project's own namespace prefix can not be reused as code for an external project. However, the prefix used for a target project may coincide with the prefix for a project namespace within that project. As a result, to link to a page in that namespace, use the same prefix twice, e.g. en:Wikisource:Wikisource:Scriptorium.

For portability across projects, one may want to select a link code that leads to the same target from all projects, e.g. MetaWikipedia:wikibooks:Main Page. The "superfluous" "MetaWikipedia:" prevents "wikibooks:" to be interpreted as namespace prefix when the code is used at wikibooks itself, while at Meta the "MetaWikipedia:" is ignored (it is not a namespace prefix, and even at Meta itself it is recognized as code for Meta). The codes above work from all projects. However, the existence detection and the self-link feature do not work on interwiki links.

Interlanguage link (software feature)
For a multilingual family of similar projects, with one project per language, a system for interlanguage linking can be set up. If this project is in a family for which this applies, Help:Interlanguage link demo may demonstrate what is explained below (this depends on whether the same language codes are used).

An interwiki link within the family is treated differently (unless it is on a talk page of any namespace): it appears at one or two edges of the webpage (left in Monobook, and top and bottom in Classic). To make it inline, prefix a colon (e.g. wiki ).

The link label depends only on the sister project that is linked to, not on the linked page. The label is set in the configuration of the project. Typically, it is the name of the language written in that language. The target is only shown in the status bar, depending on the browser (oddly, there is not even a hover box).

Thus, interlanguage link is mainly suitable for linking to the corresponding page in another language. It is not suitable for multiple links of the same other language. See Interlanguage use case for a discussion of common troubles with this system and other possible implementations.

The feature can also be used on an image description page to link to the same or a similar image in a sister project. Other interwiki links to images require the prefixed colon.

Note that, if a page may be used as a template (even if it is not in the template namespace), it should not have an interlanguage link; such a link appears in the edge of the page that includes the template, giving the impression that the link is to a version of the referring page in the other language. For the same reason, pages in the MediaWiki namespace are not suitable to put an interlanguage link in.

The mutual order of interlanguage links is preserved, but otherwise the positions within the wikitext are immaterial. Usually they are put at the end. With section editing they appear in the preview if they are in the section being edited.

A link to the project itself (hence also a link to the page itself), even if referred to with the project prefix, appears in-page.

Suppose that we have pages de:Zug, en:Train, fr:Train then we need:
 * on de: en:Train, fr:Train
 * on en: de:Zug, fr:Train
 * on fr: de:Zug, en:Train

Thus there is not the possibility of simply copying each list, let alone of using a template, as can be done if different languages share one project, with or without separate namespaces, see e.g.:
 * m:Template:H-langs:Interwiki linking used at the bottom of the master copy of this page on Meta
 * wikisource:Template:InterLingvLigoj
 * m:Template:About.

Project families with interlanguage links:
 * several Wikimedia project families, see below
 * a family of six Wikicities projects, see wikicities:c:WikiMac:WikiMac:Interlanguage links

Wikicities
In Wikicities, the prefix is the internal project name for some older wikis. For others, "Wikicities:c:" is added in front (e.g. ).

From outside, e.g. from Wikimedia projects, "wikicities:c:" is added in front, for example wikicities:c:Trains:Catégorie:Chronologie.

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Help talk:Interwiki linking

Meta:Help:Interwiki linking authors and history
= From Meta:Help talk:Interwiki linking =
 * 03:35, 25 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed capitalization of template name.)
 * 17:44, 17 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed hyperlinks that break when this page is copied to other projects.)
 * 00:32, 3 November 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 212.159.203.229 to last version by 66.48.2.197)
 * 11:33, 2 November 2005 User:212.159.203.229
 * 19:13, 26 October 2005 User:66.48.2.197 (→Interlanguage link (software feature))
 * 17:19, 16 October 2005 User:84.121.35.52 (→See also)
 * 07:09, 1 October 2005 User:218.218.204.62 (→Interlanguage link (software feature))
 * 15:52, 5 August 2005 User:David4286 m (Had the wrong TOC template on the right, so I fixed it)
 * 08:44, 4 August 2005 User:Danielwang (→Wikicities - Revert. The change was announced in wikicities:Talk:Interwiki_map#No_more_Wikicity_interwikis. wikicities:Help:Interwiki link was updated for this after my first change here.)
 * 01:35, 4 August 2005 User:195.252.34.55
 * 01:08, 4 August 2005 User:81.215.245.53
 * 07:53, 15 July 2005 User:Patrick (→Wikicities - restore, this is how it is explained on Wikicities itself; if there are exceptions, please demonstrate them with links)
 * 22:41, 14 July 2005 User:Danielwang m (an oops)
 * 22:38, 14 July 2005 User:Danielwang m (→Wikicities - interwiki links changed)
 * 22:21, 14 July 2005 User:Patrick (the odd thing is that the HTML title attribute is not used)
 * 22:16, 14 July 2005 User:Patrick (→General - self-link feature)
 * 20:14, 14 July 2005 User:Danielwang (make page easier to understand)
 * 11:18, 29 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Interlanguage link (software feature) - (oddly, there is not even a hover box).)
 * 11:10, 29 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Interlanguage link (software feature) - With section editing they appear in the preview if they are in the section being edited.)
 * 06:46, 23 May 2005 User:Patrick (→General)
 * 09:44, 17 May 2005 User:Patrick (→See also - *wikisource:Wikisource talk:Language domain requests - Discussion of upcoming transition to language subdomains.)
 * 09:39, 17 May 2005 User:Patrick (→See also -**Wikisource talk:Language domain requests - Discussion of upcoming transition to subdomains.)
 * 21:37, 14 May 2005 User:Patrick m (→Interlanguage link (software feature))
 * 21:33, 14 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Interlanguage link (software feature) -*six Wikicities projects, see wikicities:c:WikiMac:WikiMac:About)
 * 18:36, 14 May 2005 User:Patrick (For the Wikicities family of over 300 projects there is a unified system of interwiki linking: within the family the prefix is the internal project name, from outside, e.g. from Wi)
 * 18:32, 14 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Wikicities)
 * 09:51, 2 May 2005 User:Patrick m (→See also)
 * 14:58, 21 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Interlanguage link (software feature) - *wikisource:Template:InterLingvLigoj)
 * 13:33, 21 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Interlanguage link (software feature) - Template:About)
 * 10:25, 21 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Interlanguage link (software feature))
 * 10:11, 21 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Interlanguage link (software feature))
 * 10:08, 21 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Interlanguage link (software feature))
 * 10:04, 21 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Interlanguage link (software feature))
 * 09:59, 21 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Interlanguage link (software feature) - A link to the project itself (hence also a link to the page itself), even if referred to with the project prefix, appears in-page.)
 * 17:24, 20 April 2005 User:AnyFile
 * 11:18, 20 April 2005 User:Patrick (new system: )
 * 02:00, 20 April 2005 User:Patrick m
 * 09:25, 24 March 2005 User:Patrick m (→Interlanguage link (software feature))
 * 09:21, 24 March 2005 User:Patrick (→General)
 * 09:15, 24 March 2005 User:Patrick m (→General)
 * 09:09, 24 March 2005 User:Patrick m (→See also)
 * 09:06, 24 March 2005 User:Patrick (→See also - w:en:, to make it work from all projects)
 * 10:57, 22 March 2005 User:Patrick (*wikisource:Wikisource:Scriptorium/Language domain proposal - discussion of pros and cons of having a separate subdomain for each language.)
 * 11:03, 13 March 2005 User:Patrick (→Interlanguage link (software feature))
 * 11:01, 13 March 2005 User:Patrick (→Interlanguage link (software feature) -The mutual order of interlanguage links is preserved, but otherwise the positions within the page are immaterial.)
 * 22:55, 8 February 2005 User:Patrick (→See also - extra link *Interwiki map)
 * 01:55, 8 February 2005 User:Patrick m (→See also)
 * 01:50, 8 February 2005 User:Patrick (→See also -*Interwiki links to the same page are different from the Esperanto Wikipedia)
 * 08:12, 14 January 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 68.98.206.109 to last version by Patrick)
 * 20:45, 13 January 2005 User:68.98.206.109 (→See also)
 * 06:29, 18 October 2004 User:Patrick (header ==Interlanguage link (software feature)==)
 * 21:33, 10 October 2004 User:Gangleri (→General - +link to Interwiki map)
 * 14:30, 13 September 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 12:30, 13 September 2004 User:Patrick m (→General)
 * 12:05, 13 September 2004 User:Patrick (→General)
 * 11:56, 11 September 2004 User:Patrick (: new name: the name needs to be reserved on other projects, therefore the prefix)
 * 07:42, 11 September 2004 User:Patrick m (→See also)
 * 05:33, 11 September 2004 User:Dcljr m (→See also - bypassed redirects on 2 links)
 * 07:44, 9 September 2004 User:Patrick (→General)
 * 12:40, 6 September 2004 User:Patrick (→See also)
 * 10:23, 1 September 2004 User:Patrick (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py- →checkout -wikipedia/phase3/maintenance/interwiki.sql?content-type=text%2Fplain&rev=1.6)
 * 10:09, 1 September 2004 User:Patrick (For a given project the namespace prefixes can not also be used as code for an external project. However, the prefix used for a target project may coincide with the prefix for the project namespace wi)
 * 09:31, 1 September 2004 User:Patrick (rm " Currently only the first such link in a page is shown in the sidebar.", not correct)
 * 09:19, 1 September 2004 User:Patrick (The link label depends only on the sister project that is linked to, not on the page; it is set in the configuration of the project, typically it is the name of the language in that language.)
 * 09:08, 1 September 2004 User:Patrick (For a multilingual family of similar projects, with one project per language, a system for interlanguage linking can be set up.)
 * 08:58, 1 September 2004 User:Patrick (Within each project, interwiki linking to a page of another project is possible with internal link style, with a prefix for the other project ("prefixed internal link style"). For)
 * 08:43, 1 September 2004 User:Patrick (attempt to separate Wikimedia stuff)
 * 06:25, 18 August 2004 User:Sj (→Interlanguage link (software feature))
 * 13:00, 24 July 2004 User:Patrick (The feature can also be used on an image description page, to link to the same or a similar image in a sister project. Other interwiki links to images require the prefixed colon.)
 * 12:53, 24 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Interlanguage link (software feature))
 * 06:34, 21 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Links from wikis outside Wikimedia (External Interwiki links))
 * 06:06, 21 July 2004 User:193.144.127.11 (→Links from wikis outside Wikimedia)
 * 04:50, 21 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Exceptions)
 * 14:43, 20 July 2004 User:Patrick (→See also - *Interwiki link problem)
 * 13:05, 20 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Exceptions)
 * 13:04, 20 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Prefixes)
 * 13:03, 20 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Prefixes)
 * 12:54, 20 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Interlanguage link (software feature) -update)
 * 12:49, 20 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Prefixes -update)
 * 12:42, 20 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Prefixes -**wikiquote:de:Hauptseite - German Wikiquote)
 * 09:13, 20 July 2004 User:195.77.24.14 (→See also)
 * 08:45, 19 July 2004 User:Patrick (The exceptions apply for linking to those projects, not for linking from them.)
 * 08:34, 19 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Interlanguage link (software feature) -mv exceptions to subsection)
 * 08:30, 19 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Interlanguage link (software feature))
 * 08:29, 19 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→See also)
 * 08:27, 19 July 2004 User:Patrick (The languages that have a Wikipedia and (possibly empty) Wiktionary that are not on the list (commented out) are Klingon (artificial) and Serbocroatian (obsolete). Interwiki links to these appear in t)
 * 07:54, 19 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Interlanguage link (software feature) - including languages which have no Wikipedia or Wiktionary yet, but for which the feature potentially applies, i.e. applies after the wiki has beem created,)
 * 07:44, 19 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Prefixes -this works for all existing Wikipedias (list of codes) and Wiktionaries (same list))
 * 06:47, 19 July 2004 User:Patrick (The list of language codes for which this feature applies, with local and English name of the language, is [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/phase3/languages/Names.php?rev=1.1.2.2&view)
 * 22:32, 18 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Interlanguage link (software feature) - and to one in the (currently empty) Klingon Wiktionary:)
 * 22:25, 18 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Interlanguage link (software feature) -An exception is a link to a page in the w:Klingon Wikipedia, that appears in the page body anyway, e.g. tlh:tlhIngan Hol; see also [[Artificial lang)
 * 21:01, 18 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Prefixes - fixed)
 * 07:37, 17 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Prefixes -BUG, work in progress? - wikibooks:Main Page - Wikibooks - Currenly does not work, leads to nonexisting http://en.wikibooks.org/)
 * 11:54, 16 July 2004 User:Patrick (==Interlanguage link (software feature)==)
 * 23:57, 15 July 2004 User:Patrick (**especially useful in the case of a page used in the template, so that on the referring page the link label can explain what the link target is.)
 * 23:49, 15 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Interlanguage link)
 * 23:47, 15 July 2004 User:Patrick (Therefore this kind of link is mainly suitable for linking to the corresponding page in another language, and multiple links to the same other language can usually better be avoided.)
 * 23:40, 15 July 2004 User:Patrick (Note that a page that might be used as a template, even if it is in an other than the template namespace, is not very suitable for an interlanguage link: such a link appears in the edge of the page th)
 * 12:32, 15 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Interlanguage links)
 * 12:28, 15 July 2004 User:Patrick (rm dup)
 * 12:25, 15 July 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 12:11, 15 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Interlanguage links -An interlanguage link in the wider sense includes what, for the software, is a regular link, also an internal one on projects which are shared by different languages: Meta, Wi)
 * 11:55, 15 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Interlanguage links - The link label can not be controlled, it is the name of the language in that language. The target is only shown in the hover box and the status bar, depending on the browser.)
 * 11:38, 15 July 2004 User:Patrick (unless it is on a talk page of any namespace:)
 * 14:59, 10 July 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 14:59, 10 July 2004 User:Patrick (The simplest interwiki links consist of the prefix only; they lead to the Main Page.)
 * 13:01, 10 July 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 21:37, 5 July 2004 User:Patrick (*as demonstrated above by the double prefixes, links may cumulate, thus enabling links that are not possible with a single prefix:)
 * 20:26, 5 July 2004 User:Patrick (**wiktionary:de:Hauptseite - German Wiktionary, etc.)
 * 16:04, 5 July 2004 User:Patrick (correction: from en:, oddly, one has to use m:wikisource:Main Page))
 * 16:01, 5 July 2004 User:Patrick (**wikisource:Main Page (works from Meta; from en:, oddly, one has to use meta:wikisource:Main Page))
 * 13:31, 1 July 2004 User:Patrick (**wikisource:Main Page (works from Meta, not from en:))
 * 12:57, 1 July 2004 User:Patrick (wikiquote, wikisource)
 * 12:14, 21 June 2004 User:Patrick (Interwiki links)
 * 09:15, 18 June 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 08:54, 18 June 2004 User:Patrick (Google:Searchterm. A list of sites is at →checkout -wikipedia/phase3/maintenance/interwiki.sql?content-type=text%2Fplain&rev=1.6, see also Interwiki map)
 * 08:47, 18 June 2004 User:Patrick (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py- →checkout -wikipedia/phase3/maintenance/interwiki.sql?content-type=text%2Fplain&rev=1.6)
 * 08:24, 18 June 2004 User:Patrick m (→Links from wikis outside Wikimedia)
 * 08:21, 18 June 2004 User:Patrick (Many wikis allow the prefixes WikiPedia and MetaWikiPedia, which are in http://usemod.com/intermap.txt . Linking from a CamelCase-wiki to a page that contains spaces in its title typically requires su)
 * 07:35, 18 June 2004 User:Patrick (Prefixed internal link style is also possible for links to various wikis outside Wikimedia, even if they use different software, e.g. Wiki:WelcomeVisitors and MeatBall:MeatballWiki.)
 * 07:18, 18 June 2004 User:Patrick (misc)
 * 06:22, 18 June 2004 User:Patrick (unfortunately, internal link style is not even possible between the Wikipedia and the Wiktionary of the same language, except in the case of English.)
 * 23:10, 17 June 2004 User:Patrick (Only links within a project may show as broken, leading to the edit page. Existence is not shown for links to pages of other projects, until the link is applied.)
 * 23:05, 17 June 2004 User:Patrick (misc)
 * 22:37, 17 June 2004 User:Patrick (more)
 * 21:01, 25 May 2004 User:193.29.77.111
 * 10:06, 6 May 2004 User:Tim Starling (external sites)
 * 18:38, 4 May 2004 User:IMSoP m ('meta:' works, and put colons in for clarity)
 * 00:42, 15 April 2004 User:Jroes m (Added a link to the next page in the guide)
 * 20:08, 4 October 2003 User:Tarquin
 * 12:08, 4 October 2003 User:Patrick (See also en:Interwiki.)
 * 13:35, 23 September 2003 User:Patrick (copied from Meta.wikipedia.org technical issues (please complete/update))

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Help:Keyboard shortcuts

For changing the shortcuts, see User Styles.

The MediaWiki software employs a series of keyboard shortcuts in order to enable users to perform most of the common editing operations without using alternate input devices (i.e. by only using the keyboard).

This article documents the default (English) shortcuts, and also tries to suggest a workflow for the localized Wikipedias in the pursuit for more appropriate, intuitive shortcuts for their users. Hold [alt] then select the shortcut.

Default Shortcuts
This is the list of default shortcuts. The first column should be self-explanatory in most situations. If you find that it isn't, please feel free to edit this section for future users.

accesskey-addsection	+ accesskey-anontalk	n accesskey-anonuserpage	. accesskey-article	a accesskey-compareselectedversions	v accesskey-contributions	? accesskey-currentevents	? accesskey-delete	d accesskey-edit	e accesskey-emailuser	? accesskey-help	? accesskey-history	h accesskey-login	o accesskey-logout	o accesskey-mainpage	z accesskey-minoredit	i accesskey-move	m accesskey-mycontris	y accesskey-mytalk	n accesskey-portal	? accesskey-preferences	? accesskey-preview	p accesskey-protect	= accesskey-randompage	x accesskey-recentchanges	r accesskey-recentchangeslinked	c accesskey-save	s accesskey-search	f accesskey-sitesupport	? accesskey-specialpage	? accesskey-specialpages	q accesskey-talk	t accesskey-undelete	d accesskey-unwatch	w accesskey-upload	u accesskey-userpage	. accesskey-viewsource	e accesskey-watch	w accesskey-watchlist	l accesskey-whatlinkshere	b

The list above is targeted at International/English users, therefore it's ordered by the name of the function, not by the key.

Translator's View
Various Wikipedias will most probably want to use localized versions for the shortcuts. The challenge in this case is finding appropriate shortcuts without duplicating the respective keys. Here is what we suggest as a possible process: use the list below, copying the Wiki source of the list in a local text file, and fill in the shortcuts you feel appropriate in your own language in the second column. Always keep the list ordered by the second column. That way it will always be easy to spot duplicate shortcuts, because all keys you propose for various operations will be easily verifiable by checking the alphabetically ordered list. Also, you will be able to easily find the free keys, so you will be able to assign meaninful functions for them.

The first column in the "table" below is shown for reference, because some key duplicates make sense, and they have already been assigned in duplicate by the developers (e.g. delete/undelete, log in/log out or watch/unwatch).

The first four entries have default values filled in for "your" language (in the second column) for exemplifying reasons; you are encouraged to override those values if that makes sense in your language.

=	=	accesskey-protect .	.	accesskey-userpage .	.	accesskey-anonuserpage +	+	accesskey-addsection a		accesskey-article b		accesskey-whatlinkshere c		accesskey-recentchangeslinked d		accesskey-delete d		accesskey-undelete e		accesskey-edit e		accesskey-viewsource f		accesskey-search h		accesskey-history i		accesskey-minoredit l		accesskey-watchlist m		accesskey-move n		accesskey-anontalk n		accesskey-mytalk o		accesskey-login o		accesskey-logout p		accesskey-preview q		accesskey-specialpages r		accesskey-recentchanges s		accesskey-save t		accesskey-talk u		accesskey-upload v		accesskey-compareselectedversions w		accesskey-watch w		accesskey-unwatch x		accesskey-randompage y		accesskey-mycontris z		accesskey-mainpage ?		accesskey-portal ?		accesskey-preferences ?		accesskey-sitesupport ?		accesskey-specialpage ?		accesskey-contributions ?		accesskey-currentevents ?		accesskey-emailuser ?		accesskey-help

The list above is targeted at the translator, and it's meant to be functional rather than informational. Therefore it may look inaesthetic in this view; that's because it's meant to be useful in source view, where translators can edit it by continually re-ordering the rows in the list while defining their localized list of shortcuts.

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Meta:Help:Keyboard shortcuts authors and history
= From Meta:Help talk:Keyboard shortcuts =
 * 03:47, 25 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Changed initial template and fixed hyperlink that breaks when this page is copied to other projects.)
 * 19:44, 20 October 2005 User:Who (header and footer)
 * 02:12, 29 June 2005 User:Sysy m (changing the shortcuts)
 * 21:04, 16 November 2004 User:69.174.112.178
 * 00:13, 30 May 2004 User:Gutza
 * 22:55, 29 May 2004 User:Gutza

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Help:Link

For some basics, see also Help:Editing.

Linking from a page
The following types of hyperlink can be distinguished:

 * 1) internal link in internal link style (no class, class='stub', or class='new', see below), e.g. a, Main page
 * 2) interwiki link in internal link style (class='extiw'), e.g. a
 * 3) link in external link style (class='external'), e.g. http://a.org

(the classes can be used for separate colors or fonts per class by means of a specification in a CSS)

If no link label is specified, 1 and 2 are of the form target  (with in case 2 target starting with a prefix) and 3 is of the form target, where target is the URL including "http://" ( ftp:// also works, but file:// does not). In case 3 no blank space is allowed in the URL. For MediaWiki pages the blank space can be replaced by an underscore, in general also %20 can be used; see also URLs in external links.

There are two ways of allowing the link label and the (eventual) link target to be chosen independently:
 * a label can be specified with in case 1 and 2 label  and in case 3 [ target label ], with a blank space in between, see Help:Piped link.
 * a page with the name of the link label redirects to the eventual link target.

In the first case the link title is the name of the (eventual) target page, in the second case it is equal to the link label. By using a piped link and a redirect, the label, title, and target can all be chosen independently, see also below.

Correspondingly, there are two ways to use an image as link to a page:
 * In the first method, only possible in projects that allow embedding images in external link style, an image plays the role of the label.
 * In the second method, the image description page contains a redirect.

In case 3, links like [ target ] are automatically labelled with serial numbers 1, 2, 3, ...

For link type 1 there is an existence detection feature: it will be a link to the viewing page if the page exists at the time of loading or previewing of the referring page (no class or class='stub'), otherwise to the edit page (class='new'; "red link").

For an internal link to an image or category, prefix a colon. A link to a non-existing image gives: Image:Abc

Stub feature
A link in internal link style to an existing internal page will be in class 'stub' iff all the following is true:
 * the page is in the main namespace
 * the page is not a redirect
 * the number of bytes of the wikitext is less than the value of the "threshold for stub display" specified in the preferences

The idea behind this is that such pages are "stubs" which need fixing, or which are less worthwhile to go to. Alternatively, with a higher threshold value, the feature allows indication that a page is large (with a slow connection perhaps a reason not to go to it). However, note that due to the possible inclusion of templates and images, a small wikitext does not necessarily mean a small composite page in terms of amount of information, or amount of bytes to load. On the other hand, a page about a subtopic with a link to the parent page and with the same category tags may exceed a stub threshold without containing any additional info not provided by the parent page.

Also, by specifying a very high value as threshold, this feature allows, instead of the intended use of distinction according to size:
 * distinction according to namespace (in the main namespace or not); however, redirects in the main space are marked "as if in another namespace", regardless of the namespace of the target of the redirect
 * for links to the main namespace, known from the hoverbox or status bar, an indication of links having a redirect as target; therefore, for clean-up work involving bypassing redirects, temporarily using a very high stub threshold value is convenient.

However, section linking to a "stub" does not work; normally that would not matter, but with these special uses of the stub feature, with higher threshold values, it does. In this regard it is better to use external link style for section linking, that works anyway.

Internal link style vs interwiki link style: pros and cons
Pros:
 * A copy of the wikitext on a sister project may still point to the same page. Sometimes two prefixes are needed for that purpose, e.g. a.

Cons:
 * depending on the CSS it may look different
 * there is no existence detection:
 * the link is always to the view page, not to the edit page
 * the link does not look different if the page does not exist
 * the self-link feature does not work

Example: If you are viewing the master copy on Meta of this help page then some of the above is demonstrated here:
 * compare Help:Lnik and m:Help:Lnik (for the demo this page should not exist, please do not create it)
 * compare Help:Link and m:Help:Link (self link)

Cases where using external link style for an internal or interwiki page can be useful
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 * linking to the edit page of an existing internal page
 * linking to an edit page on a sister wiki (including a non-existing page, the link being an invitation or preparation for creating one, just like is common for internal pages)
 * linking to a page for which internal link style is not possible, such as an old version of a page, a diff of two versions, Recent Changes or Watchlist with parameters, Backlinks page, etc.

Redirects
A redirect to a section of a page does not go to the section. One can use it anyway as a clarification, and at least it works when clicking on the link from the redirect page.

A link that specifies a section of a redirect page corresponds to a link to that section of the target of the redirect.

"Hover Box" on hyperlinks
On some browsers, putting the mouse pointer over a hyperlink will show a hover box with the title attribute in the link anchor in the HTML code. This is the page name (without the possible section indication) in case 1, the page name with prefix in case 2, and the URL in case 3. Oddly, the title is not present at interlanguage links (at the page margin).

This can be switched off in the preferences. The browser may also show similar info, but with the possible section indication, in the address bar.

For these effects a piped link is useful even if it not followed, e.g. for displaying the meaning of an acronym, the municipality to which a town belongs, or any other remark: UN, Voorburg, example. Apart from the last example, the whatsapp business this works best on Wikipedias, where often the explanation corresponds with the pagename. Here the prefixes "w:en:" have been put to make the links work from other projects; these clutter the explanation in the hover box a little.

For just a remark it gives confusion with the usual meaning of a link to a non-existing page: an invitation to create the page. One can also produce a hover box without link.

Plus sign in a link
In internal and interwiki link style, a plus sign in a page name is not allowed, the HTML and hence the rendered page just shows the wikitext, e.g. a+b. In external link style a plus sign in the URL is retained. It is often equivalent with a space. See also below.

Other conversions
In accordance with the rules explained in Help:Page name, conversions are made. This is demonstrated in the following examples:

__%20_%70RoJecT %20 : a   b   :  c __%20_%70RoJekT %20 : a   b   :  c

w:__%20_%70RoJecT %20 : a   b   :  c become links to http://meta.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Meta:A_b_:_c_&action=edit http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=PRoJekT_:_a_b_:_c_&action=edit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pRoJecT_:_a_b_:_c_%23_d

and show up as

__%20_%70RoJecT %20 : a   b   :  c __%20_%70RoJekT %20 : a   b   :  c

w:__%20_%70RoJecT %20 : a   b   :  c

(see also the hover box and the status bar)

while in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/__%20_%70RoJecT_%20_:__a___b___:__c__#__d___%20 nothing is changed (except that when the browser reports the link target, %70 is converted to p).

Note that a project does not keep a record of namespace prefixes or capitalization settings of sister projects, therefore less conversions can take place in an interwiki link than in an internal link.

A code like %70 in a redirect disables it, although the link works from the redirect page. For a redirect that works, the redirect page shows the canonical form of the target, unlike its preview page, which renders the link in the usual way.

Linking to a page, a section, or an arbitrary position in a page
A plus sign in the page name in the URL is equivalent with a space, e.g. /wiki/a+b leads to the page A b.

Apart from linking to the top, one can link to a section, see Help:Section. Also one can create an anchor at an arbitrary position and link to that. One can not use a HTML element "a" (see Help:HTML in wikitext), but one can make a span or div tag like or add id=".." to the start tag of any existing HTML element.

If, on applying the link, the page name has to be converted, e.g. capitalized, then section linking still works, but the anchor part of the address disappears from the address bar. A consequence is e.g. that one can not conveniently bookmark the URL with anchor, after applying the link.

This is not applicable for internal links, because the conversions have already taken place on Preview or Save of the referring page.

Consider e.g.:

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page#See_also
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page#See_also
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:how_to_edit_a_page#See_also

The anchor part of the address disappears from the address bar in the 2nd and 3rd case.

Conversions:

http://meta.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Meta:A_b_:_c_&action=edit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pRoJecT_:_a_b_:_c_#_d

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/__%20_pRoJecT_%20_:__a___b___:__c__#__d

lead to Meta:A b : c and twice to w:Wikipedia:A b : c

Linking within a page
You can use to easily anchor to a header on the same page. For example and Linking from a page.

Link titles
As shown by the examples a, a, http://a.b#c, giving the link titles a, w:a, and http://a.b#c, respectively (also for the piped link versions), the anchor is in the title in the external link style, but not in the internal link style and not in the interwiki link style. However, even if the anchor is not in the title and even if the browser does not show the URL in the hover box, the anchor can still be seen in the status bar.

Since the HTML element "a" is disabled when put directly in the wikitext, one can not choose the link target and link title independently. This would be useful e.g. to link the word "inch" to the article "inch", with link title "2.54 cm", so that one gets informed through the hover box even without following the link. A workaround is to link to a page named "2.54 cm", which redirects to "inch".

Subpage feature
Depending on the project, for certain namespaces a subpage feature is enabled. On Wikipedia this is in talk namespaces, and the user and project namespace, on Meta also in the main namespace. The default set in DefaultSettings.php  was, as of revision 1.21:

$wgNamespacesWithSubpages = array( 	-1	=> 0, 	0	=> 0, 	1	=> 1, 	2	=> 1, 	3	=> 1, 	4	=> 0, 	5	=> 1, 	6	=> 0, 	7	=> 1 );
 * 1) which namespaces should support subpages? See Language.php for a list of namespaces
 * 2) default: only discussion ("talk") namespaces and user pages
 * 3) allow subpages
 * 4) 0=no subpages, 1=subpages

Settings per project are done in LocalSettings.php.

A page with a name of the form A/b is considered a so-called "subpage" of the page A.

From the parent page it can be linked to with simply /b or the corresponding piped link. In namespaces for which the feature is disabled, this gives a link to the page with full page name "/b". On this project in this namespace it gives: /b.

At the top of the subpage body a link to the parent page is shown automatically, without any corresponding wikitext. The link shows up even if the page A/b does not exist, provided that the page A exists.

Like most letters of a page name, the first letter after the slash is case-sensitive, A/B and A/b are different.

Subpages can have subpages themselves. Links to the whole hierarchy line of pages from the top is shown on the page.

What links here and Related changes ignore these automatic links.

Pages with a name of the form User:A/B are considered to be in the set of user pages of user A. Typically, with regard to such pages, more relaxed rules apply for user A, and more strict rules for other users, than with regard to other pages.

Inside a subpage hierarchy the following links can be used:
 * ../ - links to the parent of the current subpage.
 * ../Sibling - links to a sibling of the current subpage, e. g. from Parent/Subpage ../Sibling links to Parent/Sibling

/Subpage/ is equivalent to Subpage.

See also w:Wikipedia:Subpages.

Repairing links when disambiguating pages
When repairing a link during disambiguation, for example when renaming the article Mercury to Mercury (planet), you can use empty pipe syntax so that the link does not contain the new parenthesized qualifier. For example,  Mercury (planet)  will render as "Mercury" just like the original. This is easier to edit and maintain than the more wordy  Mercury . This pipe syntax should only be used where the unqualified reference is not ambiguous, such as in a article about the solar system.

Special effects of links

 * embedding an image
 * assigning a page to a category
 * interlanguage link feature

In each case, to make an ordinary link, prefix a colon to the pagename.

Additional effects of links

 * Related changes
 * Backlinks
 * Date format - since this effect applies for every link occurrence independently, a convention to avoid multiple linking to the same page within one page typically does not apply for date links.

Putting the wikitext  does not provide a link and only produces a blank space (perhaps depending on the browser, here it produces " "), but for "What links here" it works as a link, see Special:Whatlinkshere/Altcat:Help 2. This could be useful for a special-purpose category that should not clutter the regular list of categories a page belongs to.

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Help talk:Link

Meta:Help:Link authors and history
= From Meta:Help talk:Link =
 * 03:45, 25 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed capitalization of template name.)
 * 05:29, 16 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Replacement of with )
 * 03:36, 16 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed hyperlinks that break when this page is copied to other projects.)
 * 15:46, 27 October 2005 User:DavidBiesack (Repairing links when disambiguating pages)
 * 20:31, 26 September 2005 User:Korg m (Reverted edits by 213.141.159.252 to last version by Patrick)
 * 17:38, 25 September 2005 User:213.141.159.252
 * 13:29, 23 September 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 24.248.175.229 to last version by 152.66.212.151)
 * 23:33, 20 September 2005 User:24.248.175.229 (→Internal link style vs interwiki link style: pros and cons)
 * 09:52, 14 September 2005 User:152.66.212.151 (rv 152.23.79.239 to Patrick)
 * 18:32, 12 September 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 86.104.17.160 to last version by 152.23.79.239)
 * 17:49, 12 September 2005 User:86.104.17.160
 * 20:20, 8 September 2005 User:152.23.79.239
 * 14:12, 1 September 2005 User:Patrick (→Miscellaneous - avoid ambig; rephrase)
 * 14:05, 1 September 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 202.88.239.86 to last version by SV Resolution)
 * 12:07, 1 September 2005 User:202.88.239.86 (→Internal link vs Interwiki link: pros and cons)
 * 16:18, 30 August 2005 User:SV Resolution (→Miscellaneous - Subheadings make clear "external link" not part of "interwiki" material, etc.)
 * 05:29, 20 August 2005 User:ScribeOfTheNile m (rv test)
 * 05:28, 20 August 2005 User:68.170.54.7
 * 20:35, 19 August 2005 User:82.135.70.14 (→Subpage feature)
 * 18:07, 18 August 2005 User:ManuelGR m (→Subpage feature)
 * 18:02, 18 August 2005 User:ManuelGR (→Subpage feature - Documented according to bug #845 comment)
 * 16:50, 11 August 2005 User:ManuelGR (→Subpage feature - Adedd up page links)
 * 23:24, 21 July 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 85.98.60.131 to last version by 128.240.229.3)
 * 22:54, 21 July 2005 User:85.98.60.131
 * 15:48, 21 July 2005 User:128.240.229.3 (→Subpage feature - wikilink Language.php)
 * 07:57, 15 July 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 198.144.192.42 to last version by Zigger)
 * 04:26, 15 July 2005 User:198.144.192.42 (→Linking from a page)
 * 12:07, 14 July 2005 User:Zigger m (→Subpage feature -  Avoid Main ns redir.)
 * 04:07, 14 July 2005 User:209.10.209.56 (→Link titles)
 * 04:07, 14 July 2005 User:209.10.209.56 (→Link titles)
 * 21:30, 7 July 2005 User:Patrick m (→Linking from a page)
 * 21:28, 7 July 2005 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page - "red link")
 * 16:04, 6 July 2005 User:Patrick (On the other hand, a page about a subtopic with a link to the parent page and with the same category tags may exceed a stub threshold without containing any additional info not provided by the parent)
 * 12:11, 1 July 2005 User:Patrick (→Stub feature -iff)
 * 14:06, 29 June 2005 User:Patrick m (→Stub feature)
 * 14:00, 29 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Stub feature - for clean-up work involving bypassing redirects, temporarily using a very high stub threshold value is convenient.)
 * 13:55, 29 June 2005 User:Patrick (However, section linking to a "stub" does not work; normally that would not matter, but with this special use of the stub feature it does. In this regard it is better to use external link style for se)
 * 13:49, 29 June 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 209.56.60.2 to last version by Patrick)
 * 18:58, 25 June 2005 User:209.56.60.2 (→Other conversions)
 * 10:23, 16 June 2005 User:Patrick (Pages with a name of the form User:A/B are considered to be in the set of user pages of user A. Typically, with regard to such pages, more relaxed rules apply for user A, and more strict rules for oth)
 * 12:44, 11 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Subpage feature - update)
 * 10:09, 5 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page, a section, or an arbitrary position in a page)
 * 10:08, 5 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page - ==Linking to a page, a section, or an arbitrary position of a page==)
 * 14:20, 1 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page -For an internal link to an image or category, prefix a colon.)
 * 14:13, 1 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page -A link to a non-existing image)
 * 11:27, 29 May 2005 User:Patrick m (→Miscellaneous)
 * 11:25, 29 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Miscellaneous -A hover box can also be produced without link.)
 * 11:22, 29 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Miscellaneous - Oddly, the title is not present at interlanguage links (at the page margin).)
 * 14:20, 28 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Miscellaneous)
 * 14:13, 28 May 2005 User:Patrick (For these effects a piped link is useful even if it not followed, e.g. for displaying the meaning of an acronym, the municipality to which a town belongs, or any other remark: UN, [)
 * 13:59, 28 May 2005 User:Patrick (Putting the wikitext <nowiki> does not provide a link and only produces a blank space (perhaps depending on the browser, here it produces " "), but for "W)
 * 05:47, 27 May 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 69.3.168.73 to last version by Patrick)
 * 01:01, 27 May 2005 User:69.3.168.73 (→Linking from a page)
 * 07:36, 18 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page)
 * 07:35, 18 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page)
 * 02:54, 18 May 2005 User:200.83.101.204
 * 14:53, 9 May 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by Shaffysingh to last version by Patrick)
 * 13:27, 9 May 2005 User:Shaffysingh
 * 09:59, 9 May 2005 User:Patrick (For some basics, see also Help:Editing#Links, URLs.)
 * 09:45, 9 May 2005 User:Patrick (mv talk to talk page)
 * 23:51, 8 May 2005 User:67.102.112.231 (→Linking from a page)
 * 11:12, 25 April 2005 User:Patrick (A code like %70 in a redirect disables it, although the link works from the redirect page. For a redirect that works, the redirect page shows the canonical form of the target, unlike its preview page,)
 * 10:44, 25 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Other conversions)
 * 17:18, 20 April 2005 User:AnyFile
 * 20:55, 19 April 2005 User:Patrick m (→See also)
 * 10:53, 19 April 2005 User:AnyFile (→See also - languages link via template)
 * 10:03, 19 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Miscellaneous)
 * 09:56, 19 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Miscellaneous)
 * 09:47, 19 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Miscellaneous - Using interwiki link style to link to an internal page differs from one in internal link style as follows:)
 * 09:20, 19 April 2005 User:Jni m (rv. spam)
 * 09:13, 19 April 2005 User:81.213.168.54
 * 22:51, 18 April 2005 User:Patrick m
 * 15:27, 11 April 2005 User:Wmahan m (→Miscellaneous - sp)
 * 16:07, 5 April 2005 User:64.235.101.178
 * 16:06, 5 April 2005 User:64.235.101.178
 * 16:06, 5 April 2005 User:64.235.101.178
 * 03:01, 24 March 2005 User:Brianjd (→Subpage feature - The default settings, AS OF REVISION 1.21)
 * 23:32, 17 March 2005 User:Patrick (→Additional effects of links - ==Special effects of links==)
 * 20:34, 8 March 2005 User:64.26.171.13 (→Stub feature)
 * 15:58, 3 February 2005 User:81.138.100.115 ( to, as requested)
 * 14:16, 29 January 2005 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page - span)
 * 21:47, 28 January 2005 User:165.91.215.97 (→Anchors)
 * 15:29, 5 January 2005 User:198.178.8.81
 * 08:17, 8 November 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page - font or div tag like <nowiki></nowiki>)
 * 02:04, 2 November 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page - See e.g. the three rank links in w:Netherlands and their targets.)
 * 01:24, 2 November 2004 User:Patrick m (→Linking to a page)
 * 01:22, 2 November 2004 User:Patrick (one can not use a HTML element "a" (see Help:HTML in wikitext), but one can make a div tag

 or add id=".." to the start tag of any existing HTML element.)
 * 08:19, 15 October 2004 User:Patrick m (→Linking from a page)
 * 08:18, 15 October 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page -(ftp:// also works, but file://) does not).)
 * 04:50, 26 September 2004 User:Patrick (→Stub feature - However, linking to a section of what according to this criterion is a stub does not seem to work, except when external link style is used!)
 * 23:20, 20 September 2004 User:Patrick (→Miscellaneous - update)
 * 09:03, 13 September 2004 User:Patrick m (→Subpage feature)
 * 08:07, 11 September 2004 User:Patrick (→Additional effects of links - since this effect applies for every link occurrence independently, a convention to avoid multiple linking within one page typically does not apply for date links.)
 * 21:54, 5 September 2004 User:Patrick (→See also -Additional effects of links)
 * 13:42, 1 September 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page -existence detection feature)
 * 08:22, 1 September 2004 User:Patrick m (→Linking from a page)
 * 12:26, 25 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→Stub feature)
 * 12:25, 25 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Stub feature - However, note that due to the possible inclusion of templates and images, a small wikitext does not mean a small composite page in terms of amount of information, or amount of bytes)
 * 12:10, 25 August 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 12:07, 25 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→Stub feature)
 * 12:04, 25 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page -The idea behind this is that such pages are "w:stubs" which need fixing, or which are less worthwhile to go to. Alternatively, with a higher threshold value, the feature)
 * 11:47, 25 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page - *for links to the main namespace, known from the hoverbox or status bar, an indication of links having a redirect as target)
 * 10:53, 25 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→Linking from a page)
 * 10:51, 25 August 2004 User:Patrick (Note that if a very high value is specified as threshold, this feature allows distinction according to namespace (in the main namespace or not) instead of the intended use of distinction according to)
 * 10:44, 25 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page - in class 'stub' if all the following is true:)
 * 08:22, 25 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page - The value of the "threshold for stub display" (number of bytes) specified in the help:preferences determines whether the link is in class 'stub' (smaller pages) or no cl)
 * 22:29, 21 August 2004 User:Patrick (→See also - *w:Wikipedia:Canonicalization)
 * 12:20, 18 August 2004 User:Patrick (→See also - *Links table *Brokenlinks table)
 * 09:17, 16 August 2004 User:Patrick (*linking to a page for which internal link style is not possible, such as an old version of a page, a diff of two versions, Recent Changes or Watchlist with parameters, Backlinks page, etc.)
 * 09:08, 16 August 2004 User:Patrick (works now)
 * 21:59, 12 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page)
 * 21:57, 12 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page - *In the second method, the help:image description page contains a redirect.)
 * 21:54, 12 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page - Correspondingly, there are two ways to use an image as link to a page. In the first method, only possible in projects that allow [[Help:Images_and_other_uploaded_files#Embedd)
 * 13:58, 12 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page - In the first case the link title is the name of the (eventual) target page, in the second case it is equal to the link label. By using a piped link and a redirect, the la)
 * 13:51, 12 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page - There are two ways of allowing the link label and the (eventual) link target to be chosen independently:)
 * 12:47, 12 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Subpage feature - What links here and Related changes ignore these automatic links.)
 * 09:00, 9 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→Plus sign in a link)
 * 08:59, 9 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page -A plus sign in the page name in the URL is equivalent with a space, e.g. /wiki/a+b leads to the page A b.)
 * 08:49, 9 August 2004 User:Patrick (In internal and interwiki link style, a plus sign in a page name is not allowed, the HTML and hence the rendered page just shows the wikitext, e.g. a+b. In external link style a plus sign in the U)
 * 08:19, 8 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→See also)
 * 23:13, 7 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→Subpage feature)
 * 23:12, 7 August 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 23:10, 7 August 2004 User:Patrick (→See also - *Parser_testing#Internal_links and the next section of that page)
 * 14:02, 5 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Link titles - fixed)
 * 14:00, 5 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Interwiki link to section -seems fixed)
 * 13:39, 5 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Link titles - However, even if the anchor is not in the title and even if the browser does not show the URL in the hover box, the anchor can still be seen in the status bar.)
 * 13:29, 5 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Link titles - Since the HTML element "a" is disabled when put directly in the wikitext, one can not choose the link target and link title independently. This would be useful e.g. to link the word)
 * 13:19, 5 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Link titles - the anchor is shown in the external link style, but not in the internal link style (and not in the interwiki link style, for which the anchor does not work, but for which viewing it)
 * 13:15, 5 August 2004 User:Patrick (As shown by the examples a#b, w:a#b, http://a.b#c, the link title is a, w:a, and <nowiki>http://a.b#c</nowiki>, respectively (also for the piped link version).)
 * 08:27, 5 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Subpage feature - See also w:Wikipedia:Subpages.)
 * 08:28, 22 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Conversions -==Interwiki link to section== (BUG))
 * 07:36, 21 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Subpage feature -Settings per project are done in LocalSettings.php .)
 * 07:30, 21 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Subpage feature -DefaultSettings.php)
 * 06:14, 21 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Subpage feature -$wgNamespacesWithSubpages = array( -1 => 0, 0 => 0, 1 => 1, 2 => 1, 3 => 1, 4 => 0, 5 => 1, 6 => 0, 7 => 1, 8 => 0, 9 => 1, 10 => 0, 11 => 1);)
 * 05:59, 21 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Subpage feature - Subpages can have subpages themselves. Links to the whole hierarchy line of pages from the top is shown on the page.)
 * 05:49, 21 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Subpage feature - Like most letters of a page name, the first letter after the slash is case-sensitive, A/B and A/b are different.)
 * 05:41, 21 July 2004 User:Patrick (==Subpage feature==)
 * 05:30, 21 July 2004 User:Patrick (Depending on the project, for certain namespaces a subpage feature is enabled. On Wikipedia this is in talk namespaces, and the user and project namespace, on Meta also in the main namespace.)
 * 05:14, 21 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Conversions)
 * 22:51, 20 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Automatic link - The links shows up even if namespace:a/b does not exist, provided that namespace:a exists.)
 * 22:49, 20 July 2004 User:Patrick (In talk namespaces, and the user and project namespace, a page with a name of the form namespace:a/b is comsidered a subpage of namespace:a, and shows a link automatically to the parent page automatic)
 * 13:11, 16 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking from a page - with Template:Link this can conveniently be done, e.g. giving a (http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/b);)
 * 11:45, 15 July 2004 User:Patrick (thus, if this concerns an interlanguage link, it can not be rendered on the edge of the page, it has to be in the page body.)
 * 09:57, 15 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page -  (not sure how needed this is))
 * 09:43, 15 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page - If one wants to link to a position that is not suitable for starting a (sub)section, one can make an anchor  or add id=".." to the start tag of any existing [[w:HTML)
 * 06:27, 14 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Conversions)
 * 06:13, 14 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Conversions)
 * 05:51, 14 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Conversions)
 * 05:37, 14 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Conversions - %70)
 * 05:26, 14 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Conversions -more)
 * 21:53, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Linking to a page)
 * 21:46, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page - A consequence is e.g. that one can not conveniently bookmark the URL with anchor.)
 * 21:16, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick (Note a project does not keep a record of namespace prefixes or capitalization settings of sister projects, therefore less conversions can take place in an interwiki link than in an internal link.)
 * 21:10, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page -misc)
 * 20:52, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Linking to a page)
 * 20:51, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page -conversions)
 * 20:44, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Conversions)
 * 20:43, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page -conversions)
 * 16:13, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Linking to a page -Consider e.g.:)
 * 16:03, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick (Apart from linking to the top, one can link to a section, see Help:Section#Section_linking. If the page name has to be converted, e.g. capitalized, then section linking still works, but the anchor)
 * 10:17, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick ((no class or class='new', see below))
 * 22:41, 12 July 2004 User:Patrick ((the classes can be used for separate colors or fonts per class by means of a specification in a CSS))
 * 21:27, 11 July 2004 User:Patrick (alternatively link type 2 can be used, see Help:Template#Restrictions.)
 * 11:58, 11 July 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 07:10, 11 July 2004 User:Patrick (In case 3, links like [ target ] are automatically labelled with serial numbers 1, 2, 3, ...)
 * 07:05, 11 July 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 07:02, 11 July 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 07:00, 11 July 2004 User:Patrick (*linking to an edit page on a sister wiki (including a non-existing page, the link being an invitation or preparation for creating one, just like is common for internal pages))
 * 06:56, 11 July 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 06:51, 11 July 2004 User:Patrick (BUG: interwiki link to section does not work; workaround: external link style)
 * 14:50, 10 July 2004 User:Patrick (This can be switched off in the preferences. The browser may also show similar info, but with the possible section indication, in the adress bar.)
 * 14:32, 10 July 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 14:29, 10 July 2004 User:Patrick (misc)
 * 14:21, 10 July 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 14:20, 10 July 2004 User:Patrick (On some browsers, putting the mouse pointer over a hyperlink will show a hover box the title attribute in the link anchor in the HTML code. This is the page name in the case of an internal link, the p)
 * 13:56, 10 July 2004 User:Patrick (→See also)
 * 14:33, 9 July 2004 User:Patrick (some restriction with the use of parameters if the referring page is a template)
 * 14:13, 9 July 2004 User:Patrick (An example of the latter is in Template:Pd: although internal link style can be used for a calculation, e.g. google:200/7, external link style like http://www.google.com/search?q=200/7 is needed when)
 * 13:59, 9 July 2004 User:Patrick (URLs#URLs in external links)
 * 13:49, 9 July 2004 User:Patrick (misc)
 * 13:34, 9 July 2004 User:Patrick (new)

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Help:List

A blank line within a list item or between list items
(In this and the next section numbered lists are used in examples; unnumbered lists give a corresponding result, except that a possible problem of a list restarting with 1 is not applicable.)

A list item can only be one paragraph unless HTML tages are used. Otherwise, the new paragraph will end the list. If the list is unnumbered, a new list can be started, but if the list is numbered, the numbering will start over from 1.

In the case of a numbered list, the same is used to have a blank line between list items (more or less necessary if there is a multi-paragraph list item, otherwise the lay-out is confusing); in the case of an unnumbered list one can simply start a new one.

Using
One way to produce a paragraph break in a list is to use. The spacing between paragraphs may look odd, however.

Example:

 * 1) Abc dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text.  Def dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text.
 * 2) Ghi dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text.  Jkl dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text.

Result:

 * 1) Abc dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text. Def dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text.
 * 2) Ghi dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text. Jkl dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text.

Using and
To get more convincing spacing, you can instead put and  tags around each paragraph in the list item.

Example:

 * 1) Abc dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text. Def dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text.
 * 2) Ghi dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text. Jkl dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text.

Result:

 * 1) Abc dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text. Def dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text.
 * 2) Ghi dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text. Jkl dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text dummy text.

Continuing a list item after a sub-item
In HTML, a list item may contain several sublists, not necessarily adjacent; thus there may be parts of the list item not only before the first sublist, but also between sublists, and after the last one; however, in wiki-syntax, sublists follow the same rules as sections of a page: the only possible part of the list item not in sublists is before the first sublist.

In the case of an unnumbered first-level list in wikitext code this limitation can be overcome by splitting the list into multiple lists; indented text between the partial lists may visually serve as part of a list item after a sublist; however, this may give, depending on CSS, a blank line before and after each list, in which case, for uniformity, every first-level list item could be made a separate list.

Numbered lists illustrate that what should look like one list may, for the software, consist of multiple lists; unnumbered lists give a corresponding result, except that the problem of restarting with 1 is not applicable.

One level deeper, with a sublist item continuing after a sub-sublist, one gets even more blank lines; however, the continuation of the first-level list is not affected:
 * 1) list item A1
 * 2) list item B1
 * 3) list item C1
 * continuing list item B1

gives
 * 1) list item B2
 * 2) list item A2
 * 1) list item A1
 * 2) list item B1
 * 3) list item C1
 * continuing list item B1

 * 1) list item B2
 * 2) list item A2

See also subdivisions.

Extra indentation of lists
In a numbered list in a large font, some browsers do not show more than two digits, unless extra indentation is applied (if there are multiple columns: for each column).
 * abd
 * def
 * ghi

gives

 * abd
 * def
 * ghi

In the case that HTML has to be used (see next section), extra indentation of a list is achieved with the tags ,  :

abc def ghi  gives

abc def ghi

Some background explanation: a HTML list can have content before the first list item, distinguished from content before the list by its indentation; MediaWiki changes such content into a list item without a number displayed, but with implicit number 1; in particular a "list" can have content but no list items, which MediaWiki changes into a list with one unnumbered list item, which makes no difference: the only effect is indentation of the content; in the case mentioned the content is itself a numbered sublist.

Multi-column numbered lists
Specifying a starting value is useful for a numbered list with multiple columns, to avoid restarting from one in each column. This is only possible with HTML-syntax (for the first column either wiki-syntax or HTML-syntax can be used).

In combination with the extra indentation explained in the previous section: gives

See also wikicities:Template:List of Wikicities (talk, backlinks, edit).

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Help talk:List

Meta:Help:List authors and history
= From Meta:Help talk:List =
 * 05:13, 28 November 2005 User:Rspeer (→Continuing a list item after a sub-item - rm comment)
 * 05:12, 28 November 2005 User:Rspeer (→A blank line within a list item or between list items - clean up)
 * 03:41, 25 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Changed initial template.)
 * 02:32, 25 November 2005 User:Patrick (use bugzilla for feature requests, or discuss on talk page)
 * 02:23, 25 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Changed initial template.)
 * 08:28, 24 November 2005 User:A2 (→List basics)
 * 08:27, 24 November 2005 User:A2 (→List basics)
 * 23:37, 7 November 2005 User:Patrick (→A blank line within a list item or between list items - from talk)
 * 18:46, 12 October 2005 User:Who m (rv edits by 87.81.40.22 to last ver)
 * 17:07, 12 October 2005 User:87.81.40.22
 * 23:40, 2 October 2005 User:66.81.223.93 (→A blank line within a list item or between list items)
 * 23:32, 2 October 2005 User:66.81.223.93 (→Continuing a list item after a sub-item - edited user comment)
 * 23:31, 2 October 2005 User:66.81.223.93 (→A blank line within a list item or between list items - user comment)
 * 23:15, 2 October 2005 User:66.81.223.93 (→Continuing a list item after a sub-item - user comment)
 * 22:23, 20 July 2005 User:Patrick m (→A blank line within a list item or between list items)
 * 15:00, 20 July 2005 User:212.20.246.65 (→List basics - Fixed remaining broken code examples.)
 * 13:30, 20 July 2005 User:Patrick (→A blank line within a list item or between list items)
 * 13:28, 20 July 2005 User:Patrick
 * 13:19, 20 July 2005 User:Patrick
 * 11:01, 20 July 2005 User:212.20.246.65 (→List basics - - Fixed another broken list example)
 * 11:00, 20 July 2005 User:212.20.246.65 (→List basics - - Fixed broken "code view" of first list example.)
 * 20:33, 17 June 2005 User:Patrick m (→List basics)
 * 19:49, 17 June 2005 User:Patrick (→List basics)
 * 19:47, 17 June 2005 User:Patrick (→List basics)
 * 19:21, 17 June 2005 User:Patrick (→List basics -starting to convert to wikitable syntax)
 * 09:08, 15 June 2005 User:Patrick m (→A blank line within a list item or between list items)
 * 09:07, 15 June 2005 User:Patrick (→A blank line within a list item or between list items)
 * 08:58, 15 June 2005 User:Patrick m
 * 08:53, 15 June 2005 User:Patrick (copy from Edit)
 * 15:26, 14 June 2005 User:Patrick
 * 15:23, 14 June 2005 User:Patrick (mv from Help:Editing.)

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Help:Logging in

Logging in is not required for viewing pages, and not even for editing them. However, it provides additional features, and in general projects recommend it.

Logging in
Creating a user account means that you supply a username (your real name or a nickname) and a password. The system will reject a username that is already in use. A user account is created only once. You are then "logged in". Next time you log in you supply your username again and demonstrate with the password that you are the same person.

Edits you make are recorded under your username. If you are not logged in your edits are recorded under your IP address.

Some MediaWiki projects form a family in the sense that one logs in into the family as a whole, and that common preference settings apply. Notably this is the case for the more than 300 projects of Wikicities. On Wikimedia projects logging in and setting preferences are currently done separately on each wiki. However, see Single login.

Why log in?
You don't have to log in to read any MediaWiki wiki. You don't even have to log in to edit a MediaWiki wiki - anyone can edit almost any page, even without logging in.

However, it's still a good idea to log in, for these reasons:

 * Other users will be able to recognise you by your username when you make changes to pages. As a "name" an IP address is somewhat clumsy. Also, if you use computers at different locations (home, office, internet cafe, etc.) you have a different IP-address in each case; even in the same location, depending on the Internet connection, the IP-address may be different each time. Therefore a username is better to maintain an identity.
 * You will have your own user page where you can write a bit about yourself, and a user talk page which you can use to communicate with other users.
 * You will be able to mark an edit as minor, which avoids inconvenience for other users.
 * You will be able to keep track of changes to modules you are interested in using a watch list.
 * If you choose to give an email address, other users will be able to contact you by email. This feature is anonymous - the user who emails you will not know your email address.  You don't have to give your email address if you don't want to.
 * Check the privacy policy of the individual site you're visiting, if any (for example, Wikipedia's draft privacy policy)
 * You will be able to rename pages.
 * You will be able to set your own preferences, to change things such as:
 * The number of pages displayed in Recent changes
 * The fonts, colours and layout of the site, by using different skins.

How to log in
Logging in and setting preferences are done separately on each wiki (for plans of changing this see Single login). You may find it convenient for yourself and useful for maintaining a cross-wiki identity to use the same username on each wiki that you use, if that name is still free.

First, make sure that your browser accepts cookies. Some browsers can accept or reject cookies from individual sites; users of these should configure the browser to accept cookies from each wiki you plan to edit, such as wikipedia.org.

Go to the wiki for which you want to log in. Click on the Log in link at the top right of the page. You will then be prompted to enter your username and password. If you haven't logged in before, you will need to enter your password twice.

You may give your email address if you like. Other users will be able to send email to the address, but they won't be able to find out what the address is.

If you click the box Remember my password across sessions, you will not have to give your password again when you access MediaWiki wiki from the same computer. This feature will only work if your password was not generated by the Mediawiki software. So change your password please.

Log in problems
If you appear to be able to log in, but as soon as you try to look at a page after the 'Log in successful' page you appear logged out again, it is very likely to be a cookie problem. If you are certain that cookies are enabled, make sure that you haven't inadvertently listed the domain name of the wiki you are using (example: Wikipedia.org) on a list of sites to never allow cookies for (This feature is available in - at least - Mozilla Firebird 0.6 and above and Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 and above). Also make sure your computer's date and time are set correctly; if they are not, cookies may expire before they are supposed to.

In addition to these steps, check to make sure PHP's directory for storing session data is writable. This directory can be found in the php.ini file under the session.save_path setting. Errors in this php.ini setting can also cause other problems. Examples of these errors are referencing a non-existent directory or leaving out " marks around the directory name. Random Wiki pages or edit previews might appear blank in Internet Explorer, but not with other browsers.  Also, the Save Page button might act as if one had pressed the Show Preview button when a user is logged in, but work correctly when one is not logged in.

If you log in and enabled the cookie feature, a subsequent log in as a different user without the cookie feature enabled will appear as logged out.

What if I forget the password?
If you enter an e-mail address when signing up for the account, or in your Preferences, you can request on the login screen for a temporary password to be sent to that address, which will allow you to retrieve your account. If you did not enter an e-mail address, or the address was out of date, but you are determined to regain access to the account, you might be able to persuade someone with direct access to the database that it is your account, and ask them to retrieve it for you.

Username
Note that in some sans-serif fonts I (capital-i) and l (lowercase-L) look exactly the same, e.g. in Arial: I and l. If your user username contains one of the two, it may be wise to register also under the name that may look the same, without using that name, to prevent impersonation.

How to set preferences
Click on the Preferences link at the top right of the page for various options, including:
 * Changing your password.
 * Changing the skin, which changes the way that the web pages look.

See Help:Preferences.

Your User page and User talk page
As a logged in user, you will be able to create your own user page and user talk page. When you are logged in, you will see your username displayed at the top right of the page. Click on this to get to your user page, which you can edit in the same way as any MediaWiki wiki page.

Most users write a little bit about themselves and their interests on their user page.

You also have a User talk page. You can access this by clicking on the Talk link next to your username at the top right of the page. Other people may write messages in your user talk page by editing it, and you can respond. See Help:Talk page for more.

How to log out
You can log out any time by clicking on the Log out link at the top right of the page.

How to force logging in for editing
This is controlled through a wg variable.

See Configuring access restrictions to your wiki.

How to force logging in for viewing
This is controlled through a wg variable.

See Configuring access restrictions to your wiki.

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Help talk:Logging in

Meta:Help:Logging in authors and history
= From Meta:Help talk:Logging in =
 * 08:11, 27 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed capitalization of template name.)
 * 03:36, 25 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed capitalization of template name.)
 * 17:53, 17 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed hyperlinks harder.)
 * 17:52, 17 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed hyperlinks that break when this page is copied to other projects.)
 * 15:49, 27 September 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 169.137.64.36 to last version by Patrick)
 * 21:42, 26 September 2005 User:169.137.64.36 (→Why log in?)
 * 23:32, 23 September 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 142.161.123.57 to last version by RockOfVictory)
 * 19:31, 23 September 2005 User:142.161.123.57 (→How to set preferences)
 * 19:31, 23 September 2005 User:142.161.123.57 (→Why log in?)
 * 20:50, 25 August 2005 User:RockOfVictory m (→Logging in)
 * 21:31, 1 August 2005 User:203.194.6.166 (→Username)
 * 03:31, 19 July 2005 User:Shizhao m (Reverted edits by 81.214.161.234 to last version by Mormegil)
 * 02:01, 19 July 2005 User:81.214.161.234
 * 09:47, 27 June 2005 User:Mormegil m (links to Wikipedia need the w: prefix)
 * 07:50, 22 June 2005 User:Patrick (Note that in some sans-serif fonts I (capital-i) and l (lowercase-L) are exactly the same, e.g. in Arial: I and l. If your user username contains on)
 * 18:53, 17 June 2005 User:IMSoP (→What if I forget the password? - add a quick answer, since the question's here)
 * 04:10, 4 June 2005 User:Sesquiannual (php.ini session.save_path issues)
 * 05:08, 19 May 2005 User:195.19.148.8 (→how to force logging in for viewing)
 * 16:06, 14 May 2005 User:Patrick m (→Logging in)
 * 16:05, 14 May 2005 User:Patrick m (→Logging in)
 * 16:04, 14 May 2005 User:Patrick (Some Mediawiki projects form a family in the sense that one logs in into the family as a whole, and that common preference settngs apply. Notably this is the case for the more than 300 projects of [[W)
 * 13:48, 5 May 2005 User:193.77.122.102 (→Log in problems)
 * 02:38, 24 April 2005 User:Patrick m (→Your User page and User talk page)
 * 16:22, 21 April 2005 User:TheDJ (convert to new h:h and h:f)
 * 16:30, 18 January 2005 User:YebisYa ("Other languages" links are put into the "Help contents" box)
 * 12:58, 15 November 2004 User:Harry m
 * 12:56, 15 November 2004 User:Harry m (Logging in not required -> Logging is not required)
 * 06:09, 8 November 2004 User:66.32.254.95 (→how to force logging in for viewing)
 * 06:08, 8 November 2004 User:66.32.254.95 (→How to force logging in for editing)
 * 06:07, 8 November 2004 User:66.32.254.95 (→How to force logging in for editing)
 * 06:47, 29 October 2004 User:Jean-Christophe Chazalette m (Reverted edits by 221.194.206.191 to last version by Borislav)
 * 05:38, 29 October 2004 User:221.194.206.191
 * 13:17, 10 October 2004 User:Borislav m (removed spam)
 * 12:57, 10 October 2004 User:61.145.136.171
 * 11:51, 7 October 2004 User:192.100.116.143 (removed spam)
 * 09:17, 7 October 2004 User:218.18.13.144
 * 07:01, 23 September 2004 User:AaronPeterson m
 * 21:34, 15 September 2004 User:Patrick (Logging in not required for viewing pages, and not even for editing them. However, it provides additional features, and in general projects recommend it.)
 * 21:30, 15 September 2004 User:Patrick m (→Logging in (not required, but recommended))
 * 21:30, 15 September 2004 User:Patrick (Logging in and setting preferences are currently done separately on each wiki. However, see Single signon transition.)
 * 09:49, 30 August 2004 User:Patrick (→How to log in - (for plans of changing this see Single login))
 * 05:45, 29 August 2004 User:216.255.199.86
 * 00:32, 25 August 2004 User:Marderj (→Log in problems)
 * 10:10, 17 August 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 08:57, 17 August 2004 User:202.42.189.82
 * 08:56, 17 August 2004 User:202.42.189.82
 * 12:04, 14 August 2004 User:Id801886
 * 10:10, 6 August 2004 User:80.128.151.144 (→How to log in)
 * 06:44, 12 July 2004 User:69.5.227.10
 * 21:00, 25 May 2004 User:193.29.77.111
 * 18:42, 18 May 2004 User:202.54.55.227 (revert)
 * 17:10, 18 May 2004 User:199.103.218.253
 * 09:26, 15 May 2004 User:62.99.78.136
 * 23:01, 14 April 2004 User:Jroes m (shortened next link)
 * 23:01, 14 April 2004 User:Jroes m (added arrow to next page link)
 * 21:49, 14 April 2004 User:24.148.201.204 (Added a link to the next page in the guide)
 * 14:46, 8 April 2004 User:207.87.144.66
 * 14:45, 8 April 2004 User:207.87.144.66
 * 21:19, 2 April 2004 User:63.66.48.253
 * 20:44, 30 January 2004 User:68.54.20.186 (words make better links than asterisks where applicable; browsers' cookies per site features)
 * 15:58, 21 January 2004 User:216.206.161.162
 * 09:04, 16 January 2004 User:Daniel Mayer
 * 19:28, 13 November 2003 User:Daniel Mayer m
 * 19:27, 13 November 2003 User:Daniel Mayer (updating from EnWikipedia:Wikipedia:How to log in)
 * 02:24, 5 October 2003 User:Patrick m
 * 23:59, 25 September 2003 User:Patrick (==Logging in (not required, but recommended)==)
 * 23:49, 25 September 2003 User:Patrick (what logging in is)
 * 09:24, 23 September 2003 User:Patrick (rm confusing link to logging in in meta, while logging in in any wiki is explained.)
 * 09:23, 23 September 2003 User:Patrick (Go to the wiki for which you want to log in.)
 * 09:14, 23 September 2003 User:Patrick (Logging in and setting preferences are done separately on each wiki. You may find it convenient for yourself and useful for maintaining a cross-wiki identity to use the same username on each wiki that)
 * 10:05, 31 August 2003 User:Brion VIBBER (tweak tweak)
 * 03:02, 31 August 2003 User:Daniel Mayer (<-MediaWiki User's Guide)
 * 03:00, 31 August 2003 User:Daniel Mayer m
 * 02:59, 31 August 2003 User:Daniel Mayer m
 * 02:57, 31 August 2003 User:Daniel Mayer m
 * 02:55, 31 August 2003 User:Daniel Mayer m
 * 02:54, 31 August 2003 User:Daniel Mayer (updating to be project-neutral)
 * 02:45, 31 August 2003 User:Daniel Mayer (just a copy of the en.wikipedia version to start this off)

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Help:Magic words

This is an index of Magic words used in MediaWiki.

#redirect
Indicates a redirect

Hides the table of contents.

Always show the table of contents.

Place the table of contents here. See also compact TOC

Hide the edit links.

__START__
__START__ does nothing, and it is considered a magic word only because it has an ID in MagicWord.php.

CURRENTMONTH
A variable.

July

CURRENTMONTHNAME
A variable.

July

CURRENTDAY
A variable.

29

CURRENTDAYNAME
A variable.

Monday

CURRENTYEAR
A variable.

2024

CURRENTTIME
A variable.

NUMBEROFARTICLES
A variable.

CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN
A variable.

PAGENAME
A variable.

PAGENAMEE
A variable.

NAMESPACE
A variable.

MSG:
A template modifier. I.e.  shows

The use of msg has an effect when a template name clashes with a magic word. For example, if Template:CURRENTMONTHNAME contained "Test", then July would display "July" but would display "Test".

SUBST:
A template modifier. Replaces the reference to the template (e.g. ) with the content of the template.

''This article is a stub. You can help Wikimedia by expanding it.''

MSGNW:
A template modifier. Causes the template source to be pasted.

So outputs:

__END__
Allows for trailing whitespace to be deliberately included in the page save.

thumbnail
An image modifier.

right
An image modifier.

left
An image modifier.

none
An image modifier.

$1px
An image modifier.

center
An image modifier. Can also be spelled centre.

framed
An image modifier. Can also be spelled enframed or frame.

INT:
A special template. Used for UI messages.

SITENAME
A variable.

NS:
A special template. Gets the name of a given namespace number.

LOCALURL:
A special template. Gets the local URL of the given page.

results into

LOCALURLE:
A special template. Gets the local URL of the given page.

results into

SERVER
A variable. produces

GRAMMAR:
Useful for inflected languages to derive word forms. Usage:, cases in which this could be used depend on the specific language.

E. g. in Czech language, outputs Wikipedie, while  outputs Wikipedií.

__NOTITLECONVERT__
? Can also be spelled __NOTC__.

Same as below __NOCC__ but Article Title only.

__NOCONTENTCONVERT__
? Can also be spelled __NOCC__.

Don't perform the content language(character & phase) conversion in article display.(eg, Chinese zh with zh_cn, zh_tw, zh_sg, zh_hk)

CURRENTWEEK
A variable.

CURRENTDOW
A variable.

=Since v1.5=

CURRENTMONTHABBREV
A variable, returns the abbreviation of the current month.

July

FULLURL:, FULLURLE:
Special templates, give the full URL of the given page.

REVISIONID
Gives you the article or diff database

SCRIPTPATH
Returns $wgScriptPath

SERVERNAME
Returns $wgServerName

NUMBEROFFILES
Returns the number of uploaded files (rows in the image table).

title: Help:Magic words


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Help talk:Magic words

Meta:Help:Magic words authors and history
= From Meta:Help talk:Magic words =
 * 05:05, 25 November 2005 User:Xaosflux (nowiki stub marker)
 * 03:41, 25 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed capitalization of template name.)
 * 03:43, 16 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed hyperlinks that break when this page is copied to other projects.)
 * 16:30, 22 October 2005 User:84.121.1.120 (→<nowiki>SERVER</nowiki>)
 * 16:28, 22 October 2005 User:84.121.1.120 (→<nowiki>thumbnail</nowiki>)
 * 16:26, 22 October 2005 User:84.121.1.120 (→<nowiki>MSG:</nowiki>)
 * 16:24, 22 October 2005 User:84.121.1.120 (→<nowiki>MSG:</nowiki>)
 * 13:25, 21 October 2005 User:Who (rv edits by 81.214.98.242 to last ver by Mormegil; spam links)
 * 13:19, 21 October 2005 User:81.214.98.242
 * 13:29, 23 September 2005 User:Mormegil (→Since v1.5 - +FULLURL(E):)
 * 22:06, 10 September 2005 User:Astronouth7303 (→<nowiki>__START__</nowiki>)
 * 22:02, 10 September 2005 User:Astronouth7303 (→<nowiki>__END__</nowiki>)
 * 22:51, 8 September 2005 User:Astronouth7303 (→NUMBEROFFILES - Friendlier description)
 * 22:49, 8 September 2005 User:Astronouth7303 (No longer a stub)
 * 22:21, 8 September 2005 User:Astronouth7303 (→Since 1.5alpha1)
 * 12:25, 30 August 2005 User:Mormegil (→<nowiki>GRAMMAR:</nowiki> - nonsense, grammar: is for inflected languages)
 * 21:45, 29 August 2005 User:Sysy m (→<nowiki>GRAMMAR:</nowiki>)
 * 21:43, 29 August 2005 User:Sysy m (→<nowiki>SUBST:</nowiki>)
 * 21:09, 28 August 2005 User:Korrigan m (+ lower bar)
 * 22:09, 23 August 2005 User:Angela (The use of msg has an effect when a template name clashes with a magic word. For example, if <nowiki>Template:CURRENTMONTHNAME</nowiki> contained "Test", then <nowiki>July</nowiki)
 * 14:38, 18 August 2005 User:Bodylove (→<nowiki>LOCALURL:</nowiki>)
 * 14:36, 18 August 2005 User:Bodylove (→<nowiki>LOCALURLE:</nowiki>)
 * 14:34, 18 August 2005 User:Bodylove m (→<nowiki>LOCALURLE:</nowiki> -  use link with space for example)
 * 14:32, 18 August 2005 User:Bodylove (→<nowiki>LOCALURL:</nowiki>)
 * 14:30, 18 August 2005 User:Bodylove (→<nowiki>LOCALURL:</nowiki> - clarified usage)
 * 10:34, 18 August 2005 User:Bodylove m (→<nowiki>MSGNW:</nowiki> -  Made things more clear.)
 * 21:23, 12 August 2005 User:Patrick m (→<nowiki></nowiki>)
 * 04:02, 12 August 2005 User:70.13.13.5 (→<nowiki></nowiki>)
 * 19:40, 4 August 2005 User:208.35.208.20 (→<nowiki>$1px</nowiki>)
 * 19:40, 4 August 2005 User:208.35.208.20 (→<nowiki>$1px</nowiki>)
 * 19:39, 4 August 2005 User:208.35.208.20 (→<nowiki>$1px</nowiki>)
 * 22:54, 17 July 2005 User:69.162.151.100 (deleted pornographic spam)
 * 21:52, 17 July 2005 User:81.214.161.234
 * 15:56, 16 July 2005 User:82.225.122.75
 * 18:34, 10 July 2005 User:NHaines m (→<nowiki>MSG:</nowiki> - changed "affect" to "effect")
 * 03:25, 30 June 2005 User:218.102.99.56 (→<nowiki>__NOTITLECONVERT__</nowiki>)
 * 03:23, 30 June 2005 User:218.102.99.56 (→<nowiki>__NOCONTENTCONVERT__</nowiki>)
 * 22:42, 27 June 2005 User:Patrick m (→<nowiki>framed</nowiki>)
 * 22:42, 27 June 2005 User:Patrick m (→<nowiki>center</nowiki>)
 * 21:52, 27 June 2005 User:Patrick ("magic words" (keywords))
 * 17:25, 27 June 2005 User:Brian0918 (→CURRENTMONTHABBREV)
 * 17:22, 27 June 2005 User:Brian0918 (→CURRENTMONTHABBREV)
 * 17:21, 27 June 2005 User:Brian0918
 * 23:59, 26 April 2005 User:Astronouth7303

title: Help talk:Magic words


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Help:Minor edit

When editing a page, logged-in users have the option of marking a change to a page as a minor edit. A minor edit to a wiki page is generally one that makes only trivial changes such as typo corrections, formatting and presentational changes, and rearranging of text (without changing any of the text's content). When to mark a change as a minor edit is often a matter of personal preference and judgment.

By contrast, a major edit is one that basically makes the article worth reviewing for someone who wants to watch the article closely; therefore, any change that affects the meaning of an article is not minor, even if it is only a single word.

The distinction between major and minor edits is significant because logged-in users have the option of ignoring minor edits when they view the recent changes list, to try to weed out some of the less-important changes. No one wants to be fooled into ignoring a significant change to an article because it was marked "minor". Therefore, remember to consider the opinions of other editors when choosing this option.

Users who are not logged in to are not permitted to mark changes as minor because of the potential for misuse of the feature during vandalism. The ability to mark changes as minor is an extra reason for the community to appreciate users to register an account with, provided that they use this feature properly, of course.

Specific cases

 * Any change to the source wiki text, even if it does not affect the presentation of the page in HTML (if it involves adding a space or a line break, for example) will still be treated as a change according to the database.
 * Marking a major change as a minor one is considered poor etiquette, especially if the change involves the deletion of some text.
 * Reversions of pages are not likely to be considered minor edits under most circumstances. When the status of a page is disputed, and particularly if an edit war is brewing, then it's better not to mark any edit as minor.
 * A user's watchlist will only list the most recent change made to a page, even if that edit was minor. Therefore, a minor change will supersede a major one in the watchlist.  This is because a user who keeps a watchlist is generally interested in all changes made to a page.  If you are uncertain about the changes made to a page, check the page history to double-check.
 * If you accidentally mark an edit as minor when it was in fact a major edit, you should make a second, "dummy" edit, but note that "the previous edit was major" in the edit summary. As a trivial edit to be made for this purpose, just opening the edit box and saving (changing nothing) does not work, neither does adding a blank space at the end of a line or a blank line at the end of the page; in these cases the edit is cancelled and the edit summary discarded. However, one can, for example, add an extra space between two words, or a line break (changing the number of line breaks at that point from 0 to 1 or from 2 to 3, not from 1 to 2); these changes are preserved in the wikitext and recorded as a change, although they do not change the rendered page.

Exceptions
An administrator can semi-automatically revert the edits of the last editor of a page; all such "rollback" reversions are marked as minor by the wiki software. This is because the cumulative effect of the edits and the rollback is nothing. The most frequent use of the rollback feature is in cases of vandalism, where the act of reverting any vandalism should be considered minor (and can be ignored in the recent changes list). This has the undesirable effect that if preferences have been set to hide minor edits, and an undesirable edit has not been marked minor, one sees that, but not a possible semi-automatic reversion, in Recent Changes and Enhanced Recent Changes.

title: Help:Minor edit


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Help talk:Minor edit

Meta:Help:Minor edit authors and history
= From Meta:Help talk:Minor edit =
 * 17:55, 17 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed hyperlinks that break when this page is copied to other projects.)
 * 00:52, 31 October 2005 User:Korg m (Reverted edits by 203.160.244.229 to last version by Who)
 * 12:39, 30 October 2005 User:203.160.244.229
 * 21:54, 13 October 2005 User:Who m (rv edits by 219.148.86.36 to last ver by SV Resolution; link spam)
 * 17:18, 13 October 2005 User:219.148.86.36 (billclin)
 * 15:10, 13 September 2005 User:SV Resolution (→See also)
 * 20:34, 27 July 2005 User:Datrio m (Reverted edits by 81.215.249.32 to last version by Patrick)
 * 20:33, 27 July 2005 User:81.215.249.32
 * 21:58, 14 July 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 81.215.235.70 to last version by 24.86.201.239)
 * 19:03, 14 July 2005 User:81.215.235.70
 * 03:40, 7 July 2005 User:24.86.201.239 (rv wikispam)
 * 03:32, 7 July 2005 User:81.214.175.100
 * 03:08, 18 June 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 61.149.114.226 to last version by Patrick)
 * 20:38, 17 June 2005 User:61.149.114.226
 * 07:50, 4 June 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 65.35.63.176 to last version by TheDJ)
 * 22:40, 3 June 2005 User:65.35.63.176
 * 23:22, 21 April 2005 User:TheDJ (hc -> h:f)
 * 22:01, 21 April 2005 User:Patrick m
 * 16:38, 18 April 2005 User:Patrick m
 * 22:58, 19 February 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 68.89.20.132 to last version by Patrick)
 * 19:48, 19 February 2005 User:68.89.20.132
 * 07:53, 17 January 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 66.55.144.46 to last version by Patrick)
 * 09:05, 15 January 2005 User:66.55.144.46
 * 23:14, 24 November 2004 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 217.70.110.18 to last version by Patrick)
 * 23:46, 23 November 2004 User:217.70.110.18
 * 22:47, 6 September 2004 User:Patrick m (replace some char I can not see)
 * 22:46, 6 September 2004 User:Patrick (The ability to mark changes as minor is an extra reason for the community to appreciate users to register an account with, provided that they use this feature properly, of course.)
 * 22:37, 6 September 2004 User:Patrick (→Exceptions -from w:)
 * 22:33, 6 September 2004 User:Patrick (→Specific cases - from w:)
 * 22:20, 6 September 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 17:00, 6 September 2004 User:MinutiaeMan m (-accidental specific-site reference, +Category:English documentation)
 * 16:56, 6 September 2004 User:MinutiaeMan (New page.)

title: Help talk:Minor edit