Name
  • Björn Karlson
Job
  • Engineer
Location
  • Bavaria
Interests
  • Science
  • Languages
  • Philosophy
  • Music


Userpage on Commons


Citation Stuff


Howtos

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Just my personal reference cheat sheet. The stuff I never remember when I need it, and which can be hard to dig out of the official Help pages.

Redirect

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#REDIRECT [[WalkThisWay]]
is generated by entering:
{{For|the other use of the word|This Article (here)}}
is generated by entering:
{{about|the radio show|Mooney (radio programme)|the aircraft manufacturer|Mooney Aviation Company}}
"Above all, do not pipe the link. Show the entire linked article title as is."

Wikisourcecodequoting

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<tt><nowiki> Put it Here </nowiki></tt>
Now try and figure out the wikisource for that line without looking! :-)
This is probably way outdated. See next item for a modern template style:

Quoting larger blocks of Wiki-Markup

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::{{pre2|style=padding:0.2em|<nowiki>
Then just
  put it all
    here
(colons for indention are optional, of course)
</nowiki>}}

Footnotes

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{{refn| Put your Text here. |group=Note}}

Displaying the </nowiki> tag in these howtos

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The tag will just render as text if there isn't an "open" <nowiki> tag pending.
To show it after a <nowiki> tag therefore requires to:
  1. suspend the "nowiki-state"
  2. put the </nowiki> text
  3. resume the "nowiki-state"
Code: </nowiki></nowiki><nowiki>

Hidden Comment

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<! Now you see it - now you don't >

Format-Fu

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 Linktext1  Linktext2 
User-Name-Link ()
Codes shamelessly stolen from the signatures of fellow users

Multicolumned list

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{{columns-list|2|
* 1
* 2
* 3
}}

faked multicolumn

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{{Refbegin|20em}}
* Some
* Bulleted
* List
{{Refend}}

Boxes

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<blockquote style="background-color:#E0E0E0; padding-left:0.8em; margin:0;">
If you know a better way to transfer text blocks to a talkpage let me know!
</blockquote>

The {{talkquote|<...>}} template looks promising!

Honors Linebreaks! Yay!
(Can't use <br>)

Categories

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WP-Policy
Wikipedia:Categorization. tl;dr: Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization
Newly created Categories always have to be part of other Categories!
Linking to a Category
Just put a colon at the front of the link
[[:Category:Siouan languages]] --> Category:Siouan languages
Thanks to User:Kwamikagami for pointing this out!

Multiples

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Using different pages of the same work in different citations

<ref>{{...}}</ref>{{rp|page=381}}

Geohack / Coord

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{{Coord|57|18|22|N|4|27|32|W|dim:100|display=title}}
{{Coord|44.112|N|87.913|W|dim:10km|display=title}}
{{Coord|44.112|-87.913|display=title}}
"dim": viewing diameter (for a sane zoom level). Default in m

Done

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{{Done}}
  Done

Uploading an Image

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Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard
Or just add the object
[[File:Some Picture's Name.jpg|thumb|left|250px|alt=Some Picture's Hover Text. | Text below the Picture.]]
and follow the links.

Linking to an Image

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I.e.: just as text, not showing the image inline:
[[:Image:Cobblestones 01.jpg]]

Linking to Wikisource

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[[s:...]]

SUL-Info for User "BjKa"

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http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/tools/sulinfo.php?username=BjKa&showinactivity=1&showblocks=1&showlocked=1

Talk pages

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{{Talk header}}
({{talkheader}})
({{talkpage}})

wrapping bannerclutter

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{{WikiProjectBannerShell|1= ... }}

convert

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{{convert|16|in|mm|abbr=on}}

Inflation

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(about {{Inflation|US|0.8|1902|r=-1}} million [[USD]] today)
£199 (about {{Inflation|UK|199|1978|r=-1}} [[GBP]] today)

fight JPEG

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* Category:Images with inappropriate JPEG compression
* Wikipedia:Preparing_images_for_upload#Do_not_save_diagrams_as_JPEG

Translate

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* Full rules: Wikipedia:Translation
* tl;dr: Template:Expand language

Drive-by tagging

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Overview of available tags

Clarification needed

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{{cn|reason="The term <...> needs more explanation."|date=January 2016}}
See Wikipedia:Please_clarify.
tl;dr: {{what}}

Undated time references

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{{when}}
Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Relative_time_references
= MOS:REALTIME

Jargon

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{{jargon inline}}
Articles in Wikipedia should be understandable to the widest possible audience.
For most articles, this means understandable to a general audience.
--WP:TECHNICAL
Leider gibts kein ordentliches Äquivalent zu de:WP:Oma...
Other aliases redirecting to Wikipedia:Make technical articles understandable
* Wikipedia:Understandability
* Wikipedia:Too technical
* Wikipedia:Write one level down

Space Double

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So that italicized words and end-quotation-marks don't run into each other
Use {{-"}} instead of the "
See template:space_double, also for links to similar stuff