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Wikimedia's general [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Help Help] is also available in [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Aiuto:Aiuto Italian] and [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Помощь:Помощь Russian], as well as Greek and French and Slovenian. That is where you'll find the most up-to-date info on the MediaWiki software. | Wikimedia's general [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Help Help] is also available in [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Aiuto:Aiuto Italian] and [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Помощь:Помощь Russian], as well as Greek and French and Slovenian. That is where you'll find the most up-to-date info on the MediaWiki software. | ||
===Links=== | ===Links=== | ||
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====Interwiki links==== | ====Interwiki links==== | ||
You can link to pages on [http://en.wiktionary.org Wiktionary], the [http://en.wiktionary.org English Wikipedia] and [http://meta.wikimedia.org Meta-Wiki] as if they were pages of our own wiki, using the prefixes '''<nowiki>[[wiktionary:]]</nowiki>''', '''<nowiki>[[wikipedia:]]</nowiki>''' and '''<nowiki>[[metawikipedia:]]</nowiki>'''. | You can link to pages on [http://en.wiktionary.org Wiktionary], the [http://en.wiktionary.org English Wikipedia] and [http://meta.wikimedia.org Meta-Wiki] as if they were pages of our own wiki, using the prefixes '''<nowiki>[[wiktionary:]]</nowiki>''', '''<nowiki>[[wikipedia:]]</nowiki>''' and '''<nowiki>[[metawikipedia:]]</nowiki>'''. | ||
====Templates and transclusion==== | ====Templates and transclusion==== | ||
Text can be "transcluded" from one place on the wiki to another using <nowiki>{{this markup}}</nowiki>. Transclusion means that whenever the original text is updated, so is the text inserted in place of the page link enclosed in double-braces. Transclusion is most commonly used in order to place templates on a page. Here's [[:Category:Templates|a list of templates]]. Pick one, and then click on "What links here" once you're on the template page. You should see a list of pages, each one probably followed by "(transclusion)". Look at the wiki code for those pages to see how the template's text or markup was placed into the page. | Text can be "transcluded" from one place on the wiki to another using <nowiki>{{this markup}}</nowiki>. Transclusion means that whenever the original text is updated, so is the text inserted in place of the page link enclosed in double-braces. Transclusion is most commonly used in order to place templates on a page. Here's [[:Category:Templates|a list of templates]]. Pick one, and then click on "What links here" once you're on the template page. You should see a list of pages, each one probably followed by "(transclusion)". Look at the wiki code for those pages to see how the template's text or markup was placed into the page. | ||
Templates are not a special kind of wiki page; they're simply a term that we use to refer to pages that are meant to be transcluded. Templates usually provide a standardized format for something like a [[:Template:Chapters|table]], or else they supply a standard [[:Template:Cleanup|header]] or [[:Template:OBD_File_Footer|footer]]. You should familiarize yourself with the templates if you plan to do a decent amount of editing; they are not only timesavers, they also help editors make their edits fit in with OniGalore standards | Templates are not a special kind of wiki page; they're simply a term that we use to refer to pages that are meant to be transcluded. Templates usually provide a standardized format for something like a [[:Template:Chapters|table]], or else they supply a standard [[:Template:Cleanup|header]] or [[:Template:OBD_File_Footer|footer]]. You should familiarize yourself with the templates if you plan to do a decent amount of editing; they are not only timesavers, they also help editors make their edits fit in with OniGalore standards, and make it easier to change large amounts of wiki text at once. | ||
===Various tips=== | ===Various tips=== | ||
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:bla | :bla | ||
Custom indentation only works flawlessly when you use nothing but ":"; the ";" is a bit limited. | Custom indentation only works flawlessly when you use nothing but ":"; the ";" is a bit limited. | ||
===Unformatted ASCII=== | ===Unformatted ASCII=== | ||
This line actually starts with a " " character. It is rendered in a box, with a fixed-size font. | This line actually starts with a " " character. It is rendered in a box, with a fixed-size font. | ||
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Bottom line : be careful when you use leading spaces in your text : is that ''really'' what you want? | Bottom line : be careful when you use leading spaces in your text : is that ''really'' what you want? | ||
:For regular indentation (like this line), prefer ":". | :For regular indentation (like this line), prefer ":". | ||
==Further Help== | ==Further Help== | ||