User talk:Mathglot/Tips
>Very low pending changes backlog: 1 pages according to DatBot as of 22:15, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
Drafts
[edit]- Draft:Grievance politics
Reminders
[edit]- HDI synth check — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mathglot (talk • contribs) 22:49, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
- User:Mathglot/sandbox/French law stub
- mw:Project talk:Help#Fr-wiki not displaying interlanguage links for WP space (wrong venue; use mw:Project:Support desk.
- Verifiability at various Demographics articles using {{cite UN WPP}}
- related: eg * of Ghana, Cameroon, maybe Nepal; see WT:COUNTRIES
- Template talk:TWLJ#Reimagine as direct access nav box
- Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Illustration workshop
- Monarchism in France, rolled back, moving forward; accents
- Talk:Collaborationism#Requested move 7 November 2021[needs update]
- Talk:British pet massacre#Non-neutral
- Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography/Archive 76#Modification of several dozen biographies to note signatories of the Polanski support letter
- Testing 'update after' using postfixed template.[needs update]
- Test 2.Testing 'update after' using template with 'text' param.[needs update]
- follow up at WT:BIOG (prior: User_talk:Abbyjjjj96#August_2021 regarding addition of Polanski letter to dozens of bios).
- Talk:Identity_politics#POV_Tag
- Talk:Cochlear Limited/Talk_header_test - needs to be G7'd (or moved to my sandbox subpage) when WP:VPR#Proposal to improve customization of Template:Find sources is over.
- Wikikpedia Library: Template_talk:Find_medical_sources#The_Wikipedia_Library
- https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Talk:List_of_Russian_explorers#Split_proposal (see WP:CORRECTSPLIT)
- Template talk:Christianity sidebar
- User talk:Softwarestatistik
- User talk:Adamdaley
- ★☆★☆★ Template talk:Find sources ★☆★☆★
- https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/59495 and WP:QUERY#Non-existent Draft PAGENAMEs with in-links from mainspace
{{Update after|year|month|day|category|reason=...|text=...}}
- Template talk:Find sources multi
- Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2021_November_15#Template:Brazil_glossary_term
- VE Visual Editor: finding likely candidates for Refrenamer: insource:"<ref name=\":57\"" or
Lint errors
[edit]Shorten
[edit]IRC
[edit]- Libera log-in: https://web.libera.chat/?channel=#wikipedia-en
Live IRC chat help channels: m:IRC/Channels
(consider redoing this section per the great tips section at fr:Utilisateur:Elnon
- User talk:Mathglot/User talk snippets – snippets of boilerplate to paste onto user pages; sorta like Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace
2021 Projects
[edit]- m:Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Translation/Templates translation
- m:Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Results
- m:Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Watchlists/Multiple watchlists
- Related changes: French Resistance
Needed Afds
[edit]- Embarazada
Needed translations
[edit]Section moved to User talk:Mathglot/Translations needed.
Expand with fr article
[edit]Watchlists
[edit]- Special:recentChangesLinked –
- Custom Watchlists – from User:MusikAnimal
Reviews
[edit]- Pending changes review.
Logs
[edit]- Advanced review log – shows comments from accepted reviews as well.
Standards and guidelines, style
[edit]- WP:LAYOUT fr
- WP:MOS fr
- WP:NPOV fr
- WP:LEAD fr (guideline supp: WP:CREATELEAD: How to create and manage a good lead section)
- WP:BEGIN fr
- WP:LEADSENTENCE fr
- MOS:FOOTERS - 'Works' not 'Bibliography' for list of publications
- MOS:ORDER order of stuff
- WP:ENGVAR - varieties of English
- MOS:RETAIN (= WP:RETAIN) - use the variety of English that the article started with
- MOS:TIES - unless it has strong TIES to a particular variety (Great Fire of London)
- {{Use British English}}, {{Use American English}}, {{British English}} - talk page banner advice
- simple:WP:COMPLEX, simple:Template:complex - guideline and banner for Simple English that's too complex
- Copyedit improvement templates
- Wikipedia:Template_messages/Cleanup (fr) - dozens of cleanup templates, for article and section
- Wikipedia:Template_messages/Translation - includes {{rough translation}}, {{proofreader needed}}, {{cleanup-translation}} et al.
- WP:RELTIME - "now", "currently" deemed bad;
- Words to watch: WP:EDITORIAL, MOS:CLAIM. WP:PEACOCK, WP:TERRORIST, WP:WEASEL, WP:ALLEGED, WP:EUPHEMISM, WP:CLICHE
- MOS:VAR, WP:CITEVAR.
- Infringement: WP:COSMETICBOT.
- Homemade inline notice: Lorem ipsum blah blah blah...[copy/paste from source?]
Behavioral and conduct
[edit]- WP:OWN fr
- WP:AGF fr
- Wikipedia:List of guidelines#Behavioral, Category:Wikipedia behavioral guidelines
Core principles
[edit]Verifiability
[edit]- WP:Verifiability challenges: You may not restore unsourced material to an article after it has been WP:CHALLENGEd, unless you provide an inline citation to a reliable source that supports the material.
NPOV
[edit]Wikipedia's voice
[edit]Whether to use quotes or not, who says what, how and to whom to attribute something, etc.
- WP:WikiVoice in WP:NPOV: '...opinions should not be stated in Wikipedia's voice. Rather, they should be attributed in the text to particular sources, or where justified, described as widespread views, etc. For example, an article should not state that "genocide is an evil action", but it may state that "genocide has been described by John X as the epitome of human evil." '
- WP:Verifiability, not truth (WP:TRUTH, WP:NOTTRUTH) - essay: " It is the task of the Wikipedia editor to present opinions as opinions, not as facts stated in Wikipedia's voice; this is one reason Wikipedia's voice should be neutral."
- Useful templates: {{According to whom}}, {{Specify}}, {{Weasel inline}},
Copyright
[edit]- WP:COPYRIGHT, WP:COPYVIO
- List external webpage or source as copy of Wikipedia: {{Backwards copy}}
- Earwig's Copyvio Detector
- more links at WP:CV#Other resources
- {{subst:copyvio|url=source(s)|fullpage=yes}}
Afc
[edit]{{AfC submission/draft|T}}
or{{AfC draft}}
-->{{AfC submission/draft}}
{{subst:Submit|username}}
-->{{AfC submission/submit|username}}
Page creation
[edit]Talk pages
[edit]- Help:Talk pages - threading, indentation, starting a discussion, replying to one,
- Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines (WP:TALK) - good practices, bad practices, WP:TPO, WP:REDACT
- Don't's (WP:TALKNO):
- Do not use the talk page as a forum or soapbox for discussing the topic: the talk page is for discussing how to improve the article, not vent your feelings about it.}}
- Do's (WP:TPYES):
- Comment on content, not on the contributor. or, "Discuss content, not users."
Article talk
[edit]Subpages: User talk:Mathglot/Austrian Romance
- moving discussions: {{Moved discussion from}}, {{Moved discussion to}}.
- failure to discuss: WP:DISCFAIL
Suggested top section for Translated pages (once translation is complete):
{{skip to bottom}}
{{WikiProject Biography|living=yes|class= |importance= |listas=Lastname, Firstname}}
{{Talk header|search=no}}
{{WikiProjectBannerShell|1=
- {{WP Politics|class= |importance= }}
- {{WP Economics|class= |importance= }}
- {{WikiProject Sexuality|class= |importance= }}
- {{WikiProject LGBT studies| class= |importance= }}
- {{WikiProject Discrimination|class= |importance= }}
}}
{{calm}}
{{controversial}}
{{not a forum}}
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=pa}}
{{Discretionary sanctions|pa|long}}
{{Annual readership |width=570 |days=182}}
{{Section sizes}}
Page views.
Notes:
- BLP notice goes above the talk header and shell.
- {{skiptoTOC}} – if header is long, and ToC below the fold
- {{Talk header}} – search="yes" if there are archives
- {{Calm}} – Please stay calm and civil while commenting...
- {{Controversial}} – subject is controversial and content may be in dispute. When updating the article, be bold, but not reckless.
{{Ds/talk notice}}
– topic=gg is ACDS Gender warning{{Discretionary sanctions|pa|long}}
– ACDS Gender warning, no gamergate (Redirects to {{Ds/talk notice}})
Talk archives
- {{Talk archive navigation}} {{tan}}
Colons and asterisks
[edit]Don't mix them. Wikipedia:Colons and asterisks.
Draft talk header
[edit]{{Talk header}}
{{WikiProject banner shell |collapsed=yes |1=
<!-- {{WikiProject XXXXXX |class= importance= }} -->
: (Replace list with {{tl|WikiProject}} links before release to mainspace.)
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Censorship]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Former countries]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject France]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject History]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Media]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Politics]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/World War II task force]]
}}
<!-- Replace this with '{{Section sizes}}' before release to MAINSPACE. -->
{{Tmbox|text=
{{collapse top |bg=#F0F2F5 |title=Section sizes {{#if:{{{1|}}}|in {{{1}}}|}} }}
{{#invoke:section sizes|size|{{{1|Draft:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}}}}
{{collapse bottom}}
}}<!-- end replacement code -->
{{Annual readership |width=570 |days=60}}
Page views since a fixed date (8/19/2022):
<span class="plainlinks">[https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=wiki.riteme.site&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&range=latest-{{#expr: {{JULIANDAY|2022|{{CURRENTMONTH}}|{{CURRENTDAY}}}} - {{JULIANDAY|2022|08|19}} -1}}&pages=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Emily_Willoughby_(2nd_nomination) Latest page views]</span>
= Latest page views.
Draft categories
[edit]Lorem ipsum...
Fakes
[edit]- {{dummy reference}}
- {{fake heading}}
Copy/move attribution
[edit]This is for (non-required, helpful) Talk page attribution of copied material. (For required, edit summary attribution, see WP:CWW.)
- {{copied}} template:
{{Copied |from=Squirrel |from_oldid=345129608 |to=Tree squirrel |to_oldid=301353806 |to_diff=345159499 |date=01:00, 01 January 2011}}
Translated page translation attribution
[edit]- {{translated page}} template:
{{translated page|es|Gobierno de los Cien Días|version=85745439|insertversion=777610493|small=no}}
{{translated page|xx|SourceArticle|3=final comment|version=123456|insertversion=987654321|section=targetsection|small=no|partial=yes}}
Suggested ES: Translation of [[:es:Special:Permalink/85745439|Gobierno de los Cien Días]] ver 85745439.
- French: fr:Modèle:Traduit de
{{Traduit de|en|Original title|date src|oldid src|oldidfr=|datefr=insert date}}
- Example: {{Traduit de|en|The Day the Music Died |23/02/2016 |706538056 |oldidfr=124176100 |datefr=09/03/2016}}
- Repairing insufficient attribution WP:RIA – after the fact
Suggested ES for repairing earlier en-wiki copy:
[[WP:RIA|Note:]] The earlier edit in revision [[Special:Diff/99999999|99999999]] of hh:mm, Month dd, YYYY [[WP:CWW|copied content]] from the article [[ARTICLE#SECTION]] rev. [[Special:Permalink/1111133333|1111133333]]; see that article's history for attribution.
Associated {{copied}}:
{{Copied|from=SRCARTICLE|from_oldid=1111133333|to=DESTTARTICLE|to_diff=88888888|to_oldid=|date=hh:mm, Month dd, YYYY}}
Suggested ES for repairing earlier xx-wiki translation:
[[WP:RIA|Note:]] The earlier edit in revision [[Special:Diff/99999999|99999999]] of hh:mm, Month dd, YYYY [[WP:TFOLWP|translated content]] from the LANGUAGE article [[xx:ARTICLE#SECTION]] rev. [[xx:Special:Permalink/111133333|111133333]]; see that article's history for attribution.
Associated {{translated page}}:
{{translated page|xx|ARTICLE|version=111133333|insertversion=555555555|small=no}}
Welcome templates
[edit]- Welcome templates including
{{subst:welcome}}
,{{subst:Welcome-anon-unconstructive}}
,{{subst:welcome-anon-unsourced}}
,{{subst:Welcome-anon-suboptimal}}
,{{subst:W-graphical}}
, etc.
User talk and user warnings
[edit]- Warnings: use
{{subst:xxxxxxxx}}
:- User: {{uw-unsourced1}}, {{uw-vandalism1}} , {{uw-delete1}} , {{uw-test1}} , {{uw-advert1}} , {{uw-biog1}} , {{uw-nor1}} , {{uw-chat1}}
- IP: {{welcome-anon-unconstructive}}, {{Welcome-anon-unsourced}}, {{Welcome-anon-suboptimal}}, {{Welcome-anon-test}}
- Wikipedia:Template_messages/User_talk_namespace - alerts, warnings, etc.
- IPs: {{Shared IP advice}} - below other warnings
- pronouns to refer to user in TP comments:
{{gender|PamD}}
gives 'she',{{gender|Stephen}}
gives 'he',{{gender|Mathglot}}
gives 'they'. Likewise, {{they}}, {{their}}, {{theirs}}, {{them}}.
Vandalism
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Disruption
[edit]- dd.dd.dd.ddd (talk · contribs) makes lots of good edits, possibly by an unregistered bot. Shows AGF, but likes to make lots of useless white-space edits on article talk pages, also useless upper-case changes on template names, and non-broken redirect link fixes. Very similar is Other user (talk · contribs), although IP tends to do more Talk pages than them, but otherwise, their interests are similar: American politics, political parties, history, etc. IP geolocates to Naples, and user sports two {{userbox-2}}s about Italy and Italian, en-5, and it-N, which seems accurate.
Talk page tips
[edit]- Not a leading indicator WP:NOTLEAD, WP:RGW, WP:NOTLEADING (or WP:NOTLEADINGINDICATOR)
Move, Merge, delete, redirect, disambig
[edit]Move procedure
[edit]Don't make controversial moves:
- WP:TITLECHANGES (policy): Changing one controversial title to another without a discussion that leads to consensus is strongly discouraged. If an article title has been stable for a long time, and there is no good reason to change it, it should not be changed.
- WP:RM#CM (procedure): Use this process if there is any reason to believe a move would be contested.
- WP:BOLDMOVE (procedure): only if no prev discussion, and "unlikely that anyone would reasonably disagree".
Procedure:
- Create a discussion: add {{subst:requested move|NewName|reason=Detailed reasons. Do not sign this.}} at bottom of TP; reason can be complex and contain searches and Reflist-talk refs.
- Do not edit article; a bot will automatically add a move notice.
- Add notices to WikiProjects
See also:
- Round-robin page moves
- If Move does not appear in 'More' tab, then use: Special:MovePage/Article_pagename.
Relisting a move:
- Without using the RMcloser script, relisting is essentially done by appending the {{subst:relisting}} template at the end of the opening section/paragraph, after the OP's signature, in the article's talk page. (from u:robertsky, here.)
Merge procedure and templates
[edit]- Create a discussion:
- WP:MERGEPROP - propose a merger on the proposed destination page's talk page
- notify users:
{{subst:Mergenote|<source page>|<merger discussion talk page section>}}
- notify WikiProjects, and consider listing at WP:PMGO.
- Tag the relevant pages
- Discuss the merger
- Close and determine consensus (WP:MERGECLOSE)
- Perform the merger (WP:MERGETEXT)
Templates
- use {{tlx}} template to render templates as a link with args, e.g.,
{{tlx|Refimprove|section}}
gives{{Refimprove|section}}
- show/hide: {{collapse top}} / {{collapse bottom}} (or: {{cot}} / {{cob}})
- {{Merge}} {{Merge from}} {{Merge to}} ca de es fr it pt
{{Mergefrom|src page}}
|discuss=Talk:OtherPage#Merge discussion |date=Mon yyyy - mark dest page with proposal{{Mergeto|dest page}}
- mark source page with proposal{{subst:mergenote|ARTICLE}}
{{merged-from|source page name|date}}
- mark merge dest page after merge to link to source{{merged-to|destination page name|date}}
- mark merge src page after merge to link to dest
Delete procedures and templates
[edit]- Wikipedia:Guide to deletion
- WP:DELETE
- WP:DPAFD - deletion discussion
- Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion
- PROD (Proposed Deletion):
{{subst:prod|reason}}
- uncontroversial, not meeting criteria for speedy; can be used once only, removable by any editor w/o reason- On user page:
{{subst:Proposed deletion notify |Article title |concern=Non-notable subject |nowelcome=yes}}
Deletion process cheat sheet (2.0)
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Notes
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Redirect procedures and templates
[edit]- Help:Redirect
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Redirect/Style guide
#REDIRECT [[target]]
- Undoing a move: WP:SWAP, WP:R#SUPPRESS,
- Tech assistance, moves and stuff: Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests
Rcat Templates
[edit]- Wikipedia:Template messages/Redirect pages = Rcat main index
{{Redirect}}
{{R to section}}
{{R to subpage}}
{{R from subtopic}}
{{Rcat shell|
{{R to section}}
{{R from alternative name}}
{{R from alternative spelling}}
{{R from other capitalisation}}
{{R from plural}}
{{R from adverb}}
{{R from long name}}
{{R with possibilities}}
{{R printworthy}}
}}
Disambig
[edit]WP:DISAMBIG (or WP:D), H:DIS. Ex: Aurora (disambiguation), Lift.
- determining WP:DABNAME and WP:PRIMARYTOPIC
- Top: Link to the primary topic (if there is one): A school is an institution for learning.
- Intro: School may also refer to: followed by bullet list(s) of sentence fragments (no punct.)
- Don't overexplain, just disambiguate.
- Start with the linked term (if poss) and don't pipe, use full article title.
- Avoid extra links, don't pipe (except: [[[WP:DABREDIR]])
Fr and other lang template equivalents
[edit]{{Expand French|Périgueux|date=Mmm yyyy|topic=geo}}
- {{multiple issues}} ca de es fr it pt
- {{citation needed}} ca es fr gl it pt - questionable claim that lacks a citation to a reliable source
- {{no footnotes}} ca
esfr it pt - {{Merge}} {{Merge from}} {{Merge to}} ca de es fr it pt
- {{ping}} {{reply to|User1|User2|User3|...|User20}} Message text. ~~~~ - ca de es fr it pt
- {{References}} {{Reflist}} ca es fr gl it pt
- {{Deadlink}} fr es pt
- {{Unreferenced}} no sources at all ca de es fr it pt
- {{Refimprove}} weak or incomplete refs ca de es fr it pt
- {{Unreferenced section}} ca de es fr it pt
- {{no footnotes}} refs, but no inline citations ca de es fr it pt
- {{OR}} inline original research? ca de es fr it pt
- {{Original research}} — Original Research box tag ca de es fr it pt
- {{Section OR}} — Section may contain original research ca de es fr it pt
- {{Synthesis}} — Article is an unpublished synthesis ca de es fr it pt
- {{tl}} fr - Link to template
Citation Templates
[edit]- Help:Citation tools WaPo, NYT, Guardian, many others.
- https://citer.toolforge.org/
Cite book
[edit]{{cite book |lang=en |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date= |title= |trans-title= |publisher= |location= |isbn= |oclc= |url=}}
- {{cite book}}
{{cite book |lang=fr |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |title= |trans-title= |date= |orig-year=1st pub. [[PUB]] (yyyy) |url= |page= |chapter= |trans-chapter= |location= |publisher= |isbn= |oclc= |access-date= |quote= |trans-quote= |quote-page= }}
{{citec |last1=Doe |first1=John |year=1986 |anchor-year= |c=CHAPTER |in1=Tomlinson |p=00–99 |id=<!--opt:CITEREFDoe1986a--> |url=chapter_url}}
— (example; Ui-citec template)
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Cite news
[edit]- {{Cite news}}
{{cite news |lang=fr |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |title= |trans-title= |date= |url= |work=[[NY Times]] |publisher= |location= |url-status=live/dead |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date= |quote= |trans-quote= |quote-page= }}
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Cite web
[edit]- {{Cite web}}
{{cite web |lang=en |last1= |first1= |authorlink= |date= |title= |trans-title= |website= |publisher= |archive-url= |archive-date= |quote= |trans-quote= |quote-page= |access-date= |url= }}
- {{subst:Cite web/French}} – interpets params from fr:Modèle:Lien web
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Cite journal
[edit]- {{cite journal}}
{{cite journal |last= |first= |last2= |first2= |date= |title= |journal= |volume= |issue= |publisher= |issn= |pages= |doi= |url= }}
- es:Plantilla:Cita publicación
{{cita publicación |publicación= |idioma= |apellidos= |nombre= |enlaceautor= |título= |volumen= |número= |páginas= |editorial= |lugar= |año= |url= |issn= |oclc= |fechaacceso=nn de mes de yyyy}}
- es:Plantilla:Cita publicación
- {{cite encyclopedia}}
{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia= |editor-last1= |editor-first1= |editor-link1= |title= |last1= |first1= |author-link1= |url= |date= |year= |publisher= |location= |edition= |series= |volume= |isbn= |oclc= |language= |trans-title= |pages= |access-date= |quote= }}
Per-language issues
[edit]Catalan
[edit]
When citing Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana, place GEC into the sources section with a {{cite book}} or {{cite encyclopedia}} template including a "ref" param: |ref={{harvid|GEC}}
, then use {{sfn}} with the GEC direct link and headword as a standard wiki single-bracketed external link inside the |loc=
param of the {{sfn}}, thus (excerpt from Querimonia):
In the absence of an explicit agreement, the convinença became the default disposition[1] and the torneria. [2]
This will link "GEC" to the full citation in the Sources section, and the word itself to the entry at the encyclopedia.
==Sources==
- Carbonell i de Ballester, Jordi; Carreras i Marti, Joan. Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana (in Catalan). Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana. OCLC 225886002.
{{cite book}}
:|website=
ignored (help)
Full cut/paste example:
{{sfn|GEC|loc=[http://www.enciclopedia.cat/EC-GEC-<Entry-number>.xml <headword>]}}
and
{{cite book |title=Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana |last1=Carbonell i de Ballester |first1=Jordi |last2=Carreras i Marti |first2=Joan |url=http://www.enciclopedia.cat |publisher=Enciclopèdia Catalana |location=Barcelona |oclc=225886002 |language=Catalan |ref={{harvid|GEC}} }}
Refn and cite bundling
[edit]{{refn|name="many"|Multiple sources:{{R|Jones|Doe|Johnson|Smith|Anderson}}}}
with refs in LDR.
List-defined references and notes
[edit]List-defined notes:
How-to
[edit]=== Notes === {{notelist|refs= {{efn|name="Foo"|Text text text.}} {{efn|name="Bar"|Text text text.{{sfn|Doe|2010|p=123}}}} {{efn|name="Baz"|Text text text.{{sfnlink|Jones|1984|p=456}}}} }}
Using nested references in list-defined notes
[edit]Copy-paste model for list-defined explanatory notes using nested sfnlink citations, with instructions:
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In the running text of the article, add a link to the explanatory note at the bottom, like this:
In the "Notes" section in the appendixes at the bottom of the article, add this:
Explanation:
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Interwiki
[edit]Between projects
[edit]- List of all Mediawiki projects and ISO-639 2-letter codes at Meta: m:Table of Wikimedia projects.
- Link to other project families using shortcuts:
Code is <code>[[xxx:]]</code>:w
=wikipedia,wikt
=wikitionary,q
=wikiquote,s
=wikisource,wmf
=wikimedia,c
=wikimedia commons,d
=wikidata.- More: see Help:Interwikimedia links (H:IL) or Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects#Linking between projects.
- See WP:MOSSIS for where on the page to place sister links (Note: Wikt and wikisource have exceptions)
- See List of Wikipedias
- Special:SiteMatrix – a grid of all Wikimedia sister projects, by lang code
- m:Help:Interwiki linking
- m:Interlanguage use case – complexities, nodes, graphs
- but no interwiki in language sidebar from Talk pages: Help:Interlanguage links#Method
- Fix to {{cite book}} for broken interwikis in *-link and publisher (et al.): Help talk:CS1#Please add param error checking for interwikis lacking leading colon
- Bonnie and Clyde problem; T54564; Wikidata:Sitelinks to redirects
Between languages
[edit]And further replaced (2016) by {{illm}}, which has the 1st and 2nd args in reverse order (language, then article) and also allows multiple langs and articles, as *multi already did, thus: {{illm|Joke|fr|Blague|hu|Vicc|de|Witz}}
(max: 5).
Looks like this is now being replaced by {{Interlanguage link}}, e.g. Godzilla and The Tale of Genji -- stay tuned...
{{Interlanguage link|ja|Godzilla and The Tale of Genji|源氏物語}}
gives
- usage
# article has same name in both languages{{Interlanguage link|no|Sigmund Jakobsen}}
# different in 2 languages{{Interlanguage link|nl|Hooglede town hall|Gemeentehuis van Hooglede}}
# different link text{{Interlanguage link|de|Arno Schmidt (historian)|Arno Schmidt (Historiker)}}
- use Special:Redirect, as the ContentTranslation tool does.
- use Special:Permalink/ to identify a specific version: es:Special:Permalink/96812901 yields es:Golpe de Estado en Cuba de 1933 rev. 96812901.
- or Diffs: en:Special:Diff/12345/98765
- use the pipe trick to simplify inter-language links: Jeux olympiques.
- Help:Interwikimedia links -
[[wikt:de:Main Page]]
=[[:de:wikt:Main Page]]
- Interlanguage interwiki links:
[[wikisource:fr:Le grand testament|Le grand testament]]
- See List of Wikipedias for the 2-letter language codes.
Link from en to existing fr article which doesn't exist yet on (en) with {{link-interwiki}} :
{{link-interwiki|en=Haute Cour de Justice (France)|lang=fr|lang_title=Haute Cour (France)}}
yields Haute Cour de Justice (France)(fr)
The other way (link from fr.wikipedia to an article existing only on en) using fr:Modèle:Lien :
{{Lien|Ordre Ouissam Alaouite|lang=en|trad=Order of Ouissam Alaouite}}
yields Ordre Ouissam Alaouite (en)
- Others: (es),
Use {{Expand French|topic=geo|date=July 2013}}
e.g., for articles in en wiki about Fr towns, or {{Expand French|date=June 2009|Ballade des pendus}}
for a box including details of where to expand it from.
Scripts
[edit]Scripts to consider: Wikipedia:Kill-It-With-Fire – mass reversion, mass undo (even when not latest revision)
Growth team and newcomer tasks
[edit]- mw:Growth/Personalized first day/Newcomer tasks
- T364350 – Suggested Edits: Decide how to avoid scenarios where one article receives excessive #Newcomer Task attention
- Special:CommunityConfiguration/GrowthSuggestedEdits --> edits "Suggested Edits" in preview; admin-protected page
Translation
[edit]X2 resources
[edit]Old X2 stuff
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CXT/PTR[edit]
review help[edit] |
Find translators
[edit]- Wikipedia:Translation
- Wikipedia:Translators available
- Category:Wikipedians by language
- Category:Available translators in Wikipedia
- use the PetScan tool to limit results to active users; for example: users in Category:Translators es-en whose User or Talk page has been edited since 7 April shows 5 results
- users who rate themselves es-3, es-4, es-5, or es-N and have edited since 14 April, to show these 39 users.
Lang code translation ISO-639
[edit]{{#language:{{{langcode|fr}}}|en}}
= French{{#language:es}}
= español{{#language:chr}}
= ᏣᎳᎩ{{#language:chr|en}}
= Cherokee{{#language:de|en}}
= German{{#language:en|fr}}
= anglais{{#language:zz|en}}
= zz{{#ifeq: {{#language:zz|en}} | zz | equal | not equal}}
equal{{#ifeq: {{#language:fr|en}} | fr | equal | not equal}}
not equal{{lang|fn=is_ietf_tag|nv}}
→true←{{lang|fn=is_ietf_tag|xx}}
→←{{lang|fn=is_lang_name|navajo}}
→true←{{lang|fn=is_lang_name|xxxxx}}
→←{{lang|fn=name_from_tag|apa}}
→ Apache languages{{lang|fn=tag_from_name|havasupai}}
→ yuf-x-hav
Guidelines and templates
[edit]- Meta:Babylon – Meta translations portal and noticeboard
- meta:Translation of the week
- Wikipedia:Translation – general essay
- mw:Content translation – side by side translation tool, not yet (5/2015) enabled for en, but yes for fr.
- WP:COPYWITHIN - Guideline for Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia; Edit summary: Copied [Adapted] content from [[Article]]; see that page's history for attribution.
- Wikipedia:Template_messages/Translation - copyedit templates {{rough translation}}, {{proofreader needed}}, {{cleanup-translation}} etc.
- {{Expand French}} – notice to editors about a translated page
- {{Translated page}} – Talk page attribution to avoid copyvio {{|translated page|fr|fr-article|version=45565777|insertversion=210289191}}
- {{Verse translation}} side-by-side rendering of bilingual text
- List Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English (WP:PNT) - page exists, poorly translated
- List Category:Articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Intertranswiki/French - stuff to do; curated by Dr. Blofeld
- See User:Stephen G. Brown esp. his wiktionary user page. Polyglot extraordinaire.
- See User:Calliopejen1 contributor to language templates and occasionally fr->en articles.
- List of translation-related templates Wikipedia:Template messages/Translation.
- List of Talk-page info-banners by language, like Template:contrib-es1 to contribute only in English.
- Welcome, foreign language contributors: Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace#Foreign-language contributors
Translation and copy attribution
[edit]Legal requirement (not a Guideline or Policy; note use of word 'requires'):
- ...copying content from another page within Wikipedia requires supplementary attribution to indicate it. —WP:CWW
- To re-distribute text on Wikipedia in any form, provide credit to the authors either by including a) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to the page or pages you are re-using, b) [a link to alternate page] , or c) a list of all authors. —Wikipedia:Copyrights#Re-use of text
- If you are copying text within Wikipedia, you must at least put a link to the source page in an edit summary at the destination page. It is encouraged to do the same thing at the source page, and to add notices at the talk pages of both. —Wikipedia:Copyrights#Reusing text within Wikipedia
- Translations of copyrighted text, even from other Wikimedia projects, are derivative works, and attribution must be given to satisfy licensing requirements. Also: use ES attrib in 1st edit, and add {{translated page}} to Talk. —WP:TFOLWP
Article page attribution, add Edit summary to first edit, from WP:TFOLWP and Wikipedia:Translation#How to translate:
Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Exact name of French article]]; see its history for attribution.
Talk page attribution: add {{translated page}} (at completion?) from WP:TFOLWP and Wikipedia:Translation#How to translate]]:
{{translated page|fr|Droit d'auteur|version=123456789|insertversion=987654321 |small=no}}
Common wikiwords in other languages
[edit]Spanish
[edit]administrador[a] bibliotecario (admin), cabecera de sección, cambio menor, [[:Categoría:Nombre de categoría]], Conflictos de interés, Consenso, Discusión, Edición, Editar código, enfatizar texto, enlace interno, enlazar una palabra a un artículo, Escribir un resumen de edición (o, Ayuda:Espacio de nombres, etiquetas (tags), Firma, Fuentes fiables, guardar tus cambios, haz clic en el botón, grabar la página, Lista en viñetas (bullets), lista de seguimiento, Lista numerada, listas sin numerar (same), marcar la casilla ☑, Mostrar previsualización, Nombre de usuario, Plantilla, Plantilla:Cita requerida, {{quitar sangría|::::}} ({{od}}), #REDIRECCIÓN, redirigir, Ayuda:Referencia rápida, Referencias y notas al pie, Relevancia, resumir) en la caja, sangra una línea (indent), [[:es:WP:ME#Secciones|]], Subsección [inferior], Taller, Texto con sangría (threaded disc.), Texto subrayado,Texto tachado, transclusión, Trasladar, vigilar una página, wikitexto,
Template param search
[edit]See #Advanced search.
Template coding
[edit]Note: for stripping html comments and nowiki delimiters, see Module:Wikitext Parsing.
- Repurposed {{tips}} template: see User talk:Checkingfax#Tips template.
- Help:Magic words, mw:Help:Magic words, mw:Manual:Magic words
- mw:Help:Parser_function:
{{ucfirst: upper case }}
, {{urlencode:...}}, {{fullurl: ...}} - m:Help:Template, m:Help:Newlines and spaces
- foo is undefined
- Help:Conditional expressions
- mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions: #expr, #if, #ifeq, #ifexpr, #switch, #time, #rel2abs
- mw:Help:Parser functions in templates – includes Testing and passing undefined parameters
{{#if: {{{1}}} | Parameter 1 is not defined, or is defined and non-null/non-empty. | Parameter 1 is null. It contains only empty string(s) or breaking space(s) etc.}}
- distinguish absent from undefined param:
{{#ifeq:{{{v|}}}|{{{v|-}}}| v was defined (and may be empty) | v was not defined }}
(requires at least an '=' to trigger presence; otherwise looks like unnamed.
- mw:Manual:Parser functions
- {{PLURAL:$1|subpage|subpages}}
- Special:Version - invocations of just about everything
- Help:Conditional expressions, Help:Switch parser function
- Wikipedia:Advanced template coding
- Safesubst: Help:Substitution#Recursive substitution
- Wikipedia:Advanced template coding#Coding a template to allow WP:SUBST substitution - SAFESUBST - substify (search honeypot: unsubst)
- Help:Substitution#An example of recursion in action
- Use {{|safesubst:}} Such that all double open curlies are replaced with {{|safesubst:
- Special:ExpandTemplates - This special page takes some text and expands all templates in it recursively. Can represent as an url, with
&wpInput
= urlencoded wikitext box, andwpContextTitle
= the context title:- https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Special:ExpandTemplates&wpInput=%22%7B%7B%23titleparts%3Aa%2Fb%2Fc%2Fd%2Fe%2Ff%2Fg%2Fh%2Fi%2Fj%7D%7D%22&removecomments=true&wpContextTitle=Main%20Page
- https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Special:ExpandTemplates?wpInput=%2A%20%27%27%27live%3A%27%27%27%20%7B%7BInterlanguage%20link%7CNorth%20face%20of%20the%20Eiger%7Cfr%7CFace%20nord%20de%20l%27Eiger%7Cca%7CCara%20nord%20de%20l%27Eiger%7Cde%7CEiger-Nordwand%7D%7D%0A%0A%2A%20%27%27%27sandbox%3A%27%27%27%20%7B%7BInterlanguage%20link%2Fsandbox%7CNorth%20face%20of%20the%20Eiger%7Cfr%7CFace%20nord%20de%20l%27Eiger%7Cca%7CCara%20nord%20de%20l%27Eiger%7Cde%7CEiger-Nordwand%7D%7D
- Extension:TemplateSandbox - using the "preview page with this template" feature
- Passing special characters - pipes, equal signs, etc. see Help:Template#Usage hints and workarounds.
- pipe is either
{{!}}
or|
; equal sign can be represented as{{=}}
- pipe is either
Parser functions
[edit]Parser functions: see mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions
- String
Parser string functions
[edit]Parser string functions: see mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions#StringFunctions
- Module:String, Module:String2
- Category:String manipulation templates
- Scribunto Lua patterns mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#Patterns
Module:String
[edit]- Module:String
{{#invoke:String|replace|source_str|pattern|replace_string|replc_count|plain_flag}}
# use plain=false for regex
- Help:Manipulating strings
- mw:LUAREF#Patterns
Selected template wrappers of Module:String:
- Template:Str len
{{str len}}
- Template:Str index
{{str index|text|number}}
= - Template:Str find
{{str find}}
- Template:Str sub find
{{str sub find}}
searches for a substring in a string at the given offset - Template:String split
{{string split}}
- Template:Replace
{{Replace}}
Module:Wikt-lang
[edit]See Module:Wikt-lang:
{{#language:fr}}
⟶ français (français){{#language:fr|de}}
⟶ Französisch (Französisch){{#language:fr|en}}
⟶ French (French){{#language:xx|en}}
⟶ xx (xx){{#language:French|en}}
⟶ french (french){{ucfirst: {{#language:French|en}}}}
⟶ French (French){{ucfirst: {{#language:fr|en}}}}
⟶ French (French)
Deferred action
[edit]- Put off interpreting a <noinclude>, <nowiki>, or other tag so it gets included this time (but not next time) embed in
<nowiki>
, or insert a self-closing tag inside it:<no<noinclude/>include>
Data structures
[edit]Lua coding
[edit]- Module:Example
- Module:Example/testcases
- Module talk:Example/testcases - executing test cases
- Module:ScribuntoUnit - a unit test framework
- Module:UnitTests - another unit test framework
- Category:Modules for test tools - some more
- Help:Lua debugging
- Manual:Coding conventions/Lua
- mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual
- Wikipedia:Advanced template coding
- Module:Adjacent stations gives a very brief but valuable instant introduction to Lua
Extensions
[edit]Extension tags and magic word #tag
[edit]Extension tags extend normal syntax to add things like <inputbox> or <donation/>, etc. <ref> is built-in, but of the same order.
Extension tags do not support preSave transform (tilde-sig interpretation, substing, pipe trick, et al.), so, for example, |date={{subst:CURRENTMONTH}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
doesn't work within <ref> tags. However, #tag is a magic word that takes any extension tag (like <ref>) as param 1, tag content as param 2, and converts it into <tagname>content</tagname>
, and any subst's (or sigs, or pipes) in content will be interpreted. That is to say, #tag performs the preSave transform (like a parser functions would) but that <ref> and other extension tags do not. Example:
Markup | Renders as |
---|---|
Foo.<ref name=Doe-2024>Doe, John. time={{subst:TODAY}}</ref> Bar.{{#tag:ref|Jones, James. date={{subst:TODAY}}|name=Jones-2024}}<!--'name=' must be last--> ==== Refs ==== {{reflist}} |
|
Bots
[edit]- IABot – Internet Archive bot
- Submit an IA bot job to add
|archive-url=
to refs.
- Submit an IA bot job to add
Maintenance banners
[edit]- WP:TMC - Cleanup messsages: general, copyediting, style, structure, intro/lead, context, expand, time-sensitive, confusion, importance/N, neutrality, verifiability, categories, images, lists
- WP:TMV - Cleanup/Verifiability -
- Countering systemic bias:
- {{Globalize}} family: incl. {{Globalize/US}} {{Globalize/West}} {{Globalize/Eng}} {{Globalize/Northern}} {{Geographical imbalance}} {{Globalize/Overcoverage}} {{Historical information needed}}
Searching for subpages: use Special:PrefixIndex
Nav templates
[edit]Adding images and graphics
[edit][[File:Wikipedesketch1.png|thumb|upright=0.7|alt=A cartoon centipede ... detailed description.|The Wikipede edits ''[[Myriapoda]]''.]]
- Cropping and adding text to images: Template:Annotated image, Template:CSS crop
- Non-caption images:
[[File:Massacre d'Oradour-sur-Glane2.jpg|150px|right|Hover for caption]]
{{Annotated image | image = without 'File:' | image-width = 2x width, zooms x2; slightly larger to crop right | image-left = <0 crops from left | image-top = <0 crops from top | width = 250<!--actual value--> | height = actual value | float = | caption = }}
Example image crop using annotated image:
{{Annotated image<!--Crop out useless left and right edges from image--> | image = Resistance_15_December_1940.jpg | image-width = 350 | image-left = -31 | image-top = 0 | width = 280 | height = 330 | float = right | annotations = | caption = Issue #1 of ''Résistance'', from the [[Groupe du musée de l'Homme|Musée de l'Homme]] group, 15 December 1940 }}
- Uploading images to Commons
- mw:COM:COWN - Commons:Contributing your own work
- use the mw:Special:UploadWizard when ready to upload an image
- Translating labels on images with svg translate tool
- If they're SVG: https://svgtranslate.toolforge.org/FILENAMEHERE
See also {{CSS image crop}}
Ref help
[edit]- Makeref : Wmflabs makeref - make a reference by entering form fields
- {{ref talk}} References for a particular section on a Talk page.
{{Reflist-talk|title=|group=|colwidth=|refs=}}
- WP:CITE Citing sources; H:FOOT
- {{rp}} for same named ref, different page:
<ref name=lama90/>{{rp|132}}
(rare; use {{sfn}} instead) - {{r}} allows both the reference name and page number to be specified. {{r|aardvark|p=56}} expands to <ref name="aardvark"/>{{Rp|56}}.
- WP:REFGROUP - separate groups of refs, e.g. Refs, Notes, etc
- Nested references with <refn>: (Wikipedia:Nesting footnotes#What does not work)
<ref name="foo" group="lower-alpha"> will connect with {{efn name="foo"}}
{{refn|group=groupname|name=name|Contents of the footnote}}
{{refn|group=note|name=first|A note.<ref>An included reference.</ref>}}
Another example.{{refn|group=note|Another note.<ref>Another included reference.</ref>}}
- WP:CITEPAGE - page numbers in citations.
<ref group=groupname>Content</ref>
{{reflist|group=groupname}}
- Help:References and page numbers - different ways to cite same book, multiple page numbers
- pg nbrs shown inline using {{rp}} after named ref:
...of cups<ref name=elk1972 />{{rp|5}}... and tips.<ref name=elk1972 />{{rp|6}} ...{{reflist|refs= <ref name=elk1972>{{cite...
renders: ...of cups[1]5 and tips.[1]6 ... Refs: 1a b Elk full cite. - pg nbrs shown inline using List-defined references and {{r}}:
{{r|elk1972|page1=6}} ... ==Refs=={{reflist|refs=<ref name=elk1972>{{cite ...
renders: same as above. - fn nbrs inline, 'Auth (yyyy, pg)' in reflist, full cite after: See Shortened footnotes using {{harvtxt}} and {{harvnb}} or using {{sfn}}
- hybrid, with full cite in ref 1, SRFs in subsequent:
...cups.<ref>{{cite book ... |year=1972a |ref=harv |page=5}}</ref> and tips.{{sfn|Elk|1972a|p=6}} ...{{reflist}}
gives: ...cups[1] and tips[2]. ... 1^ Elk (full cite) ... 2^ Elk 1972a p6". - parenthetical (Harvard) short ref, pgnbr inline (no fn nbrs at all) using {{harv}}, {{refbegin}}, {{refend}}:
...cups{{harv|Elk|1972b|p=5}} and tips. {{harv|Elk|1972b|p=6}}. ...{{refbegin}} *{{cite ... |year=1972b |ref=harv}} {{refend}}
gives: cups (Elk 1972b, p. 5) and tips. (Elk 1972b, p. 6). linked to bullet cite after.
- pg nbrs shown inline using {{rp}} after named ref:
- {{sfn}}
- Some information.
{{sfn|Smith|2011}}
- "A quote in a secondary source."
{{sfn|Smith|2011|p=2|ps=, quoted in {{harvtxt|Jones|2010|p=343}} }}
- Some information.<ref>
{{harvnb|Smith|2011}}
: "A quote verifying the information."</ref> - Add url for page:
{{harv|Smith|2011|loc=[http://wiki.riteme.site chpt 3]}}
- Add url for page: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
{{sfn|Smith|2011|p=[http://wiki.riteme.site 3]}}
- Create an id for {{Citation}} ref param using {{harvid}}, and link to it from {{sfn}}:
- Lorem ipsum dolor.
{{sfn|BGI|1996}}
... - Then, in the ==Refs==section:
{{cite book|title=Important Book|year=1996|publisher=Big Government Institution|ref={{harvid|BGI|1996}} }}
- Lorem ipsum dolor.
- {{sfn}}s creates a link to '#CITEREF' + auth + year, from a ref named 'FOOTNOTE' + auth + year + page; e.g, these three are identical:
- {{sfn|Jones|2006|p=26}}
- <ref name="FOOTNOTEJones200626">{{Harvnb}}</ref>
- <ref name="FOOTNOTEJones200626">[[#CITEREFJones2006|Jones (2006)]], p. 26</ref>
- Some information.
{{harvc |last=contrib name |year=pub year |c=contrib title |in=source editor/author name}}
{{sfn}}
→{{harvc}}
(or:{{citec}}
) →{{cite book}}
{{harvc}}
creates aCITEREF
anchor from one to four contribution or chapter author surnames (|lastn=
) and the value in|year=
. This allows{{harvc}}
to be the target of a link created by{{sfn}}
or{{harv}}
family templates. From|inn=
and|year=
,{{harvc}}
creates a CITEREF link similar to those created by{{harvnb}}
and{{sfn}}
- For a working example, see User:Mathglot/sandbox/citec.
- Using CITEREF - {{Citation}} & {{Cite book}} produce CITEREF anchors you can link to with {{sfn}} and {{Harv}}:
- {{Harv|Smith|2006|p=25}} produces the link #CITEREFSmith2006
- {{sfn|Smith|2006|p=25}} produces the link #CITEREFSmith2006.
- {{Citation|last=Smith|first=John|date=27 January 2006|title=My Life}} produces the anchor CITEREFSmith2006.
- Linking to it: [[#CITEREFSmith2006|(Smith, 2006)]]
- Linking from a ref with page: <ref>[[#CITEREFSmith2006|Smith, 2006]] p. 25.</ref> (Same as {{sfn}}.)
- Quoted excerpts - Adding a quotation with {{sfn}} with
|ps=
param:- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.{{sfn|Smith|2011|p=2|ps=: "A quote goes here."}}
- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.<ref>{{harvnb|Smith|2011|p=2}}: "A quote goes here."</ref> - identical to above
- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.<ref>[[#CITEREFSmith2011|(Smith, 2011)]] p. 2. "A quote goes here."</ref>
- Quoted in a secondary source: Curabitur a tempor dui.{{sfn|Smith|2011|p=2|ps=, quoted in {{harvtxt|Jones|2010|p=343}} }} (renders as: ...quoted in Jones (2010), p.343
- Harv/sfn errors – see User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors for details
- Harv/sfn no-target errors (no target error) – sfn is there, but full citation not found in Works cited; or needs
|ref=
param - Duplicate target or multiple target errors – two citations define the same harvid ref; sfn's can't tell which one they should point to
- See also: Wikipedia:Citing sources#Short and full citations (bottom); Template:Wikipedia referencing
- Harv/sfn no-target errors (no target error) – sfn is there, but full citation not found in Works cited; or needs
Search
[edit]For search box, see Help:Inputbox ⟶ m:Extension:InputBox
Advanced search
[edit]Using insource
, hastemplate
, and so on.
- term1 matches rendered page (with/without quotes);
insource:term1
matches wikicode !@#$%^&()_+-=~`{}[]|\:;'<>,.?/
– greyspace treated as space, must be escaped to be searched) Help:Searching#Spaces and mw:- no escaping characters within double-quoted terms; escaping chars within regexp terms never hurts.
- Specials:
"
for exact search, double-quote character; also blocks stemming on unquoted terms H:SPCHAR-!
for negation, hyphen and exclamation mark: (negates terms at the beginning of a word or phrase) H:EXCLUDE\?
single char wild: escaped question mark.
any char.*
any char string (including newlines)*
0-n wild: asterisk~...
fuzzy: tilde at start:~retrun
returns 996,060 pages, starting with Rerun...~
force: tilde at end:retrun~
forces search from top left search bar, returns only two pages that contain this typo"jakarta apache"~10
proximity: two terms within 10 words of each other<9-10>
multi-digit numeric range; even<1-111>
works.
Not supported (see mw:Help:CirrusSearch#Substitutions for some metacharacters)
- \s
[^!-]
(white) - \S
[!-]
(not white) - \n
[^ -]
(newline or tab) [^\n]
[ -]
(anything but newline or tab)
Examples:
- all uses of
|bar=
within {{foo}}, with {{foo}} having the parameters on individual lines (from WP:VPT):
hastemplate:"foo" insource:/\{\{ *foo[^\}]+\| *bar *=/
- categories which use blank param to indicate sort as top cat (yields about 1/2 false +; dunno why):
insource:between insource/\[\[Category:[^\|]+\| +\]\]/
- Note: the word between is a domain-narrowing term; a pure regex search is expensive and may likely time out
Mediawiki API search
[edit]These return results in JSON format, which can be much easier to parse with regexes and so on:
Revert eagerness
[edit]How trigger-happy is someone to perform reverts? Get last 500, select/copy, paste to a note, then apply this:
^.*(Reverted|undid|rollback|manual revert).*$
and count the number of matched lines. Mathglot (talk) 05:11, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
Search for templates usage
[edit]Use advanced search params:
- hastemplate:
- insource: – can use regexp; see mw:Help:CirrusSearch#Regular expression searches
- incategory:
- prefix:
- intitle:
- linksto:
- namespace name:
For example: do any pages transcluding the Talk header template, use param 'search_term3'?
- search advanced search for:
hastemplate:"Talk header" insource:/\{\{ *[Tt]alk header[^\}]+\| *search_term3 *=/
Result sorting: add sort keys to the search url: mw:Help:CirrusSearch#Explicit sort orders
&sortby=last_edit_asc
, oldest first&sortby=incoming_links_desc
, roughly: most to least popular
Regex
[edit]Sources
[edit]Wikipedia Library
[edit]- Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library
- m:Talk:The Wikipedia Library
- de:Wikipedia Diskussion:Förderung/The Wikipedia Library
- Module talk:Find sources#Wikipedia library
- https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/search/?q=<your urlencoded query>
- twl:TITLE now on the m:Interwiki map; example: twl:"myocardial+infarction"+NOT+patients+NOT+clinical
- https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org
- https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/ + id#
- https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/users/my_library/ My collections
- applications pending and approved
- https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/search/?q=%22exact+query%22+more+terms+NOT+excludedTerm
Each partner has its own link:
Find sources
[edit]Use {{find sources|topic}}
to find sources about a topic:
Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Articles for creation
[edit]Wikipedia as a source
[edit]Wikipedia is not a reliable source.
Also, see WP:CIRC.
Foreign sources
[edit]- Wikipedia:Attribution#Language: Because this is the English Wikipedia, for the convenience of our readers English-language sources should be used in preference to foreign-language sources, provided they are otherwise of equal suitability...
- WP:NONENG (from WP:V):
- Foreign sources allowed: Citations to non-English reliable sources are allowed on the English Wikipedia. However, because this project is in English, English-language sources are preferred...
- Quoting: If you quote a non-English reliable source (whether in the main text or in a footnote), a translation into English should always accompany the quote.
- WP:TRANSCRIPTION (from WP:NOR): Faithfully translating sourced material into English, or transcribing spoken words from audio or video sources, is not considered original research. For information on how to handle sources that require translation, see Wikipedia:Verifiability#Non-English sources.
- WP:RSUW (WP:Reliable sources and undue weight; supplement to WP:RS): only English and it's provincial; only foreign, and it impedes readability/verifiability
Resources
[edit]- Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange
- WP:Library
- Regional Notice boards: Nav template Arabic speakers Singapore
- WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Intertranswiki: Arabic Chinese Japanese Persian :** WikiProject Hong Kong - Chinese speakers
- WikiProject Iran
- WikiProject Japan
- WikiProject Singapore - more Chinese speakers
- Translator categories: cs cy el es fa gu he hi hr ja pl pt ro ru sv th tr zh
- Wikimedia Embassy: Arabic Chinese Czech Farsi Greek Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Japanese Polish Russian Turkish Welsh
Find portals, projects, stubs
[edit]- Portals: Find WP:PORTALs
- Projects: Find a WP:PROJect
- Stubs: Find Stubs
Other search:
intitle:Applied" with incategory:"Physics journals": https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?search=intitle%3A%22Applied%22+AND+incategory%3A%22Physics+journals%22&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1&ns10=1&searchToken=b6t28msp2y0zy79ysb63vpc54 Find essays: Wikipedia:Essay directory
Find policies, guidelines: Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia
Discussions and Rfcs
[edit]- Wikipedia:Dashboard - list of centralized discussions: BLP noticeboard, Fringe, OR, RS, AN
- Wikipedia:Feedback request service – sign up here for Legobot's WP:FRS
- Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/All#Language_and_linguistics
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/All &ndahs; all the categories
- WP:CENT
- WP:TEAHOUSE
- WP:VPT – Village Pump Technical
- WT:MOS – Manual of Style TP
Admin actions
[edit]- Page protection: Wikipedia:Requests for page protection, Wikipedia:Protection policy
- Find an admin:
- who is recently active: Toolforge's Recently Active Admins
- willing to revdel: Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to handle RevisionDelete requests (email only!)
- via IRC: #wikipedia-en-revdel connect
Database queries
[edit]- See WP:Request a query
- or, use the Wikidata query builder
Some of my queries:
early attempts at RAQ to show summary and detail of WikiProject orphans
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- 63580 – WP:MILHIST articles w/ <11 inbound mainspace links (summary + detail, including inlink list) – forked to 63623
Rerunning a query
[edit]To rerun a query, do this:
- Go to https://quarry.wmflabs.org/
- Click the big blue "Login with Wikimedia" button
- Click "Allow" when OAuth on metawiki prompts you for permission
- Go back to quarry:query/query-id
- Click the blue "Fork" button near the upper-right; this will create a copy of the query owned by you, which you'll be able to find again later from your profile page from the dropdown menu in the upper right
- Then click "Submit query" on your copy of the query.
Misc
[edit]Url snippet highlight
[edit]Web page highlighting:
- #:~:text=BEGIN,END
Wikipedia/Wikimedia TP comment highlighting:
- #c-FirstUserName-yyyymmddhhmmss00-SecondUserName-yyyymmddhhmmss00
History link format
[edit]- https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=PAGENAME&offset=yyyymmddhhmmss%7CREVISIONID&limit=NNN&action=history # NNN defaults to 50
- https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Talk:Azov_Battalion&offset=20220410185101%7C1081979367&limit=20&action=history
Maps
[edit]- Maps and mapframe: mw:Help:Extension:Kartographer
- <mapframe text="Lombard Street, San Francisco" width=250 height=250 zoom=16 latitude=37.802 longitude=-122.4193 />
- <mapframe text="Parc des Buttes Chaumont, Paris" width=250 height=250 zoom=15 latitude=48.8796 longitude=2.382783 />
Other
[edit]- Clickstream data: how do users find a page? meta:Research:Wikipedia clickstream
- parser migration edit: add '?action=parsermigration-edit' to the end of any url to see the effects; see mw:Parsing/Replacing_Tidy, and notice at User talk:Boghog#Upcoming changes to wikitext parsing.
- Righting great wrongs: WP:RGW, WP:RIGHT WRONGS,
- WP:NOTLEAD: Wikipedia follows, it does not lead.
- HTML comments: WP:HIDDEN: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Hidden text
<!-- hidden comment -->
- The use–mention distinction: "Computer architecture is [not, refers to] the theory behind computer design."
- Words as words - MOS:WORDSASWORDS
- Refers to - WP:REFERS The article Computer architecture once began with the sentence, "Computer architecture refers to the theory behind the design of a computer." That is not true: Computer architecture is the theory.
- WP:SST - stub types
- Lists: WP:USEPROSE, MOS:EMBED, WP:Template messages/Lists, WP:Template_messages/Cleanup#Lists.
- Tables: User:Dcljr/Tables
- Search: Petscan - Find articles with certain properties. (manual)
- WP:N, Category:Wikipedia notability guidelines, WP:NNC: non-notability of content
- Stepped user warnings:WP:WARN2: Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace/Multi-level templates; maybe also Template:User-warning set
- Pipe trick: lop off trainling comma- or paren- suffixes:
- example
- Reverse pipe trick: supply currentpagename suffix onto any anchors using prefixed| :
- If [[|Palo Alto]] were placed in page Oakland, California, the link would expand to: [[Palo Alto, California|Palo Alto]]
- I can never find the parable of the two travelers when I need it.
- FENS search engine: Wikipedia talk:Free English newspaper sources#Combined search engine to search all FENS at once.
Grammar
[edit]- "The" before false titles: Historian Jane Brown says such-as-such., vs. The historian...
Versioning, mediawiki, parsing etc.
[edit]- Special:Version - list of installed software (8), skins (Monobook, etc.), extensions,
- mw:Community Wishlist Survey 2019 - starts Oct 29 2018
- mw:Parser_extension_tags - <ref>, <imagemap>, <mapframe>, <hiero>, etc.
- mw:Help:Magic_words - including
- Behavior switches (__FOO__)
- Variables ({{FOO}})
- Parser functions ({{FOO: arg}} {{#language:ar|en}}, {{#tag}},
- mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions #if, #ifeq, #ifexpr, #ifexists, #switch
- Interwiki: Special:Interwiki#Interwiki prefixes (c:, s:, wikt:, etc), Special:Interwiki#Interlanguage prefixes (es:, fr:, etc.)
- mw:Reading/Reading_Lists
- WP:Protocol-relative URL, e.g., Internet Archive (without http(s) scheme)
Links
[edit]- MOS:EGG: keep links intuitive, per WP:POLA
- Avoid MOS:PARTIALNAMELINKs, like [[Christopher Columbus|Columbus]] Avenue or [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] diagram
- Don't avoid redirects with pipes: WP:NOPIPE
- MOS:REDIR: Redirects are better than piping red links
- Redirects are also helpful to avoid an ugly MOS:SECTLINK
- Don't fix them, if they're WP:NOTBROKEN
- Pointing directly to a page using a piped link, is not faster, or better for server load
- No suprising links: MOS:PIPE (principle of least astonishment)
- Also at Wikipedia:Writing better articles#Principle of least astonishment: WP:LEAST, WP:ASTONISH, WP:SURPRISE
- Cal Scene Painting
Wiki Ed
[edit]The Wikipedia:Education program (WP:WEP) doorway to Wikipedia:Education program/Educators
- Wikipedia:Education noticeboard = (WP:EDUN, WP:ENB) – discuss items relating to student assignments and the Wikipedia Education Program
- Wikipedia:Course_pages - administration pages in the Education Program namespace intended to coordinate and monitor the editing activity of student assignments. Managed through dashboard.wikiedu.org.
- Wikipedia:Student assignments = WP:ASSIGN – info/advice for instructors, editors, students
- Special:Institutions – autogen from database, list of colleges; tabs for Special:Courses, Special:Students,
- User:Ian (Wiki Ed), * User:Shalor (Wiki Ed)
Tools
[edit]Wmflabs xtools
[edit]- list of toolforge tools
- List of xtools
- Not in the other language – Find article here but not there
- Forward to Libraries (wmflabs)
- editor interaction investigation
Toolforge
[edit]- Category suggester – based on cats in other languages
- Citation Hunt
- toolforge editor interaction
- grep title
- "(Music)" in title
Others
[edit]- PetScan – Category intersection
External apps
[edit]- reftag – Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books (broken)
- New York Times Wikipedia reference generator (broken)
- gbooks citation maker, alyw234237's tool
- Digital Public Library of America
Top material
[edit]- hatnotes: e.g.,
{{Spanish name|first=Montoya|second=Roldán}}
Lead
[edit]- Purpose: MOS:LEAD The lead should stand on its own as a concise overview of the article's topic. It should identify the topic, establish context, explain why the topic is notable, and summarize the most important points, including any prominent controversies.
- Summarize: MOS:INTRO The lead section should briefly summarize the most important points covered in an article in such a way that it can stand on its own as a concise version of the article.
- No unique info:
- MOS:LEADNO (in: MOS:LEAD): Significant information should not appear in the lead if it is not covered in the remainder of the article. alias: LEADNOTUNIQUE
- MOS:LEADAVOID (in: MOS:LEAD): Apart from basic facts, significant information should not appear in the lead if it is not covered in the remainder of the article.
- WP:LEADFOLLOWSBODY (in: WP:Writing better articles): The sequence in which you edit should usually be: first change the body, then update the lead to summarize the body.
- Parts: WP:LEADSENTENCE, WP:LEADPARAGRAPH, WP:CITELEAD
- Style: WP:BOLDTITLE, WP:BOLDSYN, WP:BOLDAVOID, WP:TITLEABSENTBOLD
- Alt names: MOS:FORLANG: a single foreign language equivalent name can be included in the lead sentence, usually in parentheses. Do not include foreign equivalents in the lead sentence just to show etymology.
- References: MOS:CITELEAD:
- Redundant citations: Because the lead will usually repeat information that is in the body, editors should balance the desire to avoid redundant citations in the lead with the desire to aid readers in locating sources for challengeable material.
- BLP rules are stronger: Any statements about living persons that are challenged or likely to be challenged must have an inline citation every time they are mentioned, including within the lead.
- Writing it: WP:LEADFOLLOWSBODY The sequence in which you edit should usually be: first change the body, then update the lead to summarize the body. and Don't try to update the lead first, hoping to provide direction for future changes to the body.
Article and section names
[edit]- Title: WP:AT, WP:COMMONNAME; Descriptive:WP:NDESC.e.g., Restoration of the Everglades
- Section titles in sentence case: MOS:SECTIONS (part of WP:MOS)
- No refer-back: MOS:SECTIONS * Not redundantly refer back to the subject of the article... or to a higher-level heading, unless doing so is shorter or clearer.
- All 6 section heading levels (h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6): Help:Wikitext#Layout.
- See also {{chead}}.
Categories
[edit]- Categories, per H:CAT, WP:NAMESORT, WP:SUR
[[CATEGORY:Nameless people|Doe, John]]
- changes one category{{DEFAULTSORT:Doe, John}}
- changes all categories on the page
Edit summary
[edit]- Guideline: WP:ES
- Boilerplate undo/revert:
- Undid revision 999999876 by Mathglot (talk)
Undid revision [[Special:Diff/999999876|999999876]] (of hh:mm, MON dd, yyyy) by [[Special:Contributions/Mathglot|Mathglot]] ([[User talk:Mathglot|talk]]). Reason.
Undid 11 revisions by [[Special:Contributions/Mathglot|Mathglot]] ([[User talk:Mathglot|talk]]) to last revision by UUUUUUUUU. Reason.
- Don't link wikilinks in summary: use ZWSP between brackets: e.g.:
'[​[Europeans]​]' (not: '[​[Europe]​]ans')
⟶ '[[Europeans]]' (not: '[[Europe]]ans')
- Edit summary search: https://sigma.toolforge.org/summary.py
Jargon
[edit]- vote - read, "not vote" WP:NOTVOTE
- non-admin closure - WP:NAC
Presentation
[edit]Type-face changes: Template:!xt#Examples,
...for example, {{xt|1=''T'' = 293.15 K}}, but not {{!xt|1=''m''=5.4kg}}.
- ...for example, T = 293.15 K, but not m=5.4kg.
- See also {{tl|xtn||, {{xtd}}, {{xt}}, {{xtn}}, {{mxt}}, {{mxtn}}, {{mxtd}}, {{bxt}}, {{bxtn}}, {{bxtd}},
- Tooltip / hover / pop-up:
{{H:title|Or should I say, 'Bonjour'?|Hello}}
produces Hello. [[WP:COI|{{tooltip|conflict of interest|in the specific sense employed in Wikipedia policy}}]]
-->- links WP:COI, displays 'conflict of interest', pops up 'in the specific sense employed in Wikipedia policy' in hover mode
Icons and images
[edit]Done, checked, check mark, etc.
[edit]- Template:Not_done#Inline_icon_templates_by_shape_and_color
- Yes, No, Pass, Fail, Done, Not done
Misc images and icons
[edit]- 387-clapping-hands-1.svg
Socks
[edit]Subtitling
[edit]Video files can have xx.srt subtitle files associated with them. For example:
Video File:CAM Video- 2018 Nobel Laureate Donna Strickland.webm has
de
es
fr
it
nl.
Flamers etc.
[edit]Flame warrior types, courtesy Mike Reed.
Tim Campbell links:
pt
[edit]- General help: pt:Ajuda:Página principal
Boxes
[edit]{{library resources box|by=yes|onlinebooks=yes}}
Bugs, enhancements, wishlist requests
[edit]- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org
- T138711 - MT
- meta:Community Wishlist
- GitHub, e.g., for Mobile preview gadget
Editor interaction
[edit]- toolforge editorinteract
- See also Editor Interaction Analyser.
- interaction-timeline
- For wider and other interaction analysis, see: Wikipedia:Tools#User interaction analysis.
useful links
[edit]This was the "useful links" section on my user page. The content needs to be merged in to the sections above.
Policy/procedures: WP:CITE WP:DELPRO WP:DISAMBIG WP:MOVE WP:REDIRECT
Help: Help:Disambiguation Help:Redirect Help:Section
Ref and redirect:
#REDIRECT [[target]]
<ref name="name">text of the citation</ref>
# 1st occurrence<ref name="name" />
# subsequent occurrences<ref name="name" />{{rp|pages=233–7}}
# subseq occ, different page(s) than before<ref name="merge-it">Lorem ipsum</ref> blah, blah, blah<ref follow="merge-it">dolor sit amet.</ref>
# merge two refs into one (see mw:Extension:Cite){{Cite |last= |first= |year= |title= |publisher= |publication-place= |page= |url= |accessdate= }}
# lots more params at Template:Cite{{cite book |last= |first= |date= |title= |trans_title= |url= |language= |location= |publisher= |isbn= |accessdate= }}
# Template:Cite book{{sfn |Smith |Jones |2005 |p(p)=25(-27)}}
# short footnote, e.g., Article text.[1] ... Refs: 1.^ [Smith & Jones 2005, p.25]. where the brackets indicate that the short ref is linked to the full{{citation}}
reference further down.
- Precedence of substitution in parser functions: use #tag (see above):
- Foo{{#tag:ref| This subst inside a cite works correctly; see {{cite journal|url=https://www.google.com |title=Search |author= |date= |accessdate={{subst:#time:Y-m-d|now}} }} }} bar baz…
- As to why one would use #tag:ref, for more details see mw:Extension:Cite#Substitution and embedded parser functions.
Suggest, propose, etc.: WP:PM WP:Afd WP:PRD
Templates:
{{About|USE1|USE2|PAGE2}}
{{Citation needed}}
{{For|OTHER TOPIC|PAGE1}}
{{Main|Main Article}}
{{Mergefrom|src page}}
{{Mergeto|dest page}}
{{subst:mergenote|ARTICLE}}
{{Refimprove section|{{subst:DATE}}}}
{{Unreferenced}}
{{Unreferenced section}}
{{Redirect}}
{{See also|TOPIC1|TOPIC2}}
Essays
[edit]- User:Antandrus/observations on Wikipedia behavior
- Rjensen's monograph on Wikipedia and Military history "Military History on the Electronic Frontier: Wikipedia Fights the War of 1812"at J Mil Hist (2012)
WikiSalon
[edit]- calendar: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon#Upcoming
- planning: m:Bay Area WikiSalon,
- Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco
Spam
[edit]- m:Talk:Wikiproject:Antispam – meta cross-wiki anti-spam project
Templates
[edit]- Wikipedia:TemplateStyles
- Special:ChangeContentModel – use 'Sanitized css' to change content model for TemplateStyles of templates developed in Draft space.
- WP:LUA
- WP:Advanced template coding
- Robust lang-code or lang name handling: see Template:Neetrans rev. 1007176726.
Ambox Message_box Mediawiki
[edit]Classes
[edit]Classes are in wikipedia at w:MediaWiki:Common.css, eg., hlist, navboxes, infoboxes, wikitable, table, ambox, hatnote, nowrap, mbox-small-left, and more.
Ambox classes are explained at Wikipedia:Classes_in_Ambox#Ambox_classes. To alter bar and bg colors, see Wikipedia:Classes in Ambox/Skins.
Doc skeleton
[edit]{{Documentation subpage}} {{Tsh|SHORTCUT1|...}} {{Lua|Module:FOO}} {{Uses TemplateStyles|Template:FOO/styles.css}} {{Template rating|beta}} *** TEMPLATE DOC *** <includeonly>{{sandbox other|| <!-- Categories below this line; interwikis at Wikidata --> [[Category:Utility templates]] }}</includeonly>
Seltrans test
[edit]This won't get included. See mw:Extension:Labeled Section Transclusion.
|disp=
– controls conditional display of a row depending on its type
. For example, for |disp=cities
(or |disp=c
) the row is only displayed if its type
is 'City'. Possible values for |disp=
:
cities
orc
– displays a given row, only if it has type 'City'towns
ort
– if type = 'Town'villages
orv
– if type = 'Village'summer villages
orsv
– if type = 'Summer village'specialized municipalities
orsm
– if type = 'Specialized municipality'municipal districts
ormd
– if type = 'Municipal district'improvement districts
orid
– if type = 'Improvement district'special areas
orsa
– if type = 'Special area'Metis settlements
orms
– if type = 'Metis settlement'urban
– if type is is any of 'City', 'Town', 'Village' or 'Summer village'rural
– if|type=
is any of 'Municipal district', 'Improvement districts', or 'Special area.
This won't get included either.
Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha>
tags or {{efn}}
templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}}
template or {{notelist}}
template (see the help page).