Misplaced Pages

• Article link

• Renamed link

• Blend link

• Other page link

• Section link

• Example renamed links

• Create page link

• Navigation links

• Signing comments

• Redirects

• Wikimedia link

• Linked and why

• User edits

• Categorize

• Category page link

• External links

• Wikimedia text link

• Book sources

• RFC number

• “As of” tag

• Media link

• Edit links

London has public transport. (Article link)

• A link to another Wiki article.
• Internally, the first letter of the target page is automatically capitalized and spaces are represented as underscores (typing an underscore in the link has the same effect as typing a space, but is not recommended).
• Thus the link above is to the URL en.wikipedia.org/Public_transport, which is the Misplaced Pages article with the name "Public transport". See also Canonicalization.

London has ].

San Francisco also has public transportation. (Renamed link)

• Same target, different name.
• The target ("piped") text must be placed first, then the text to be displayed, second.

San Francisco also has ].

San Francisco also has public transportation. (Blend link)

Examples include buses, taxicabs, and trams.

• Endings are blended into the link.
  • Exception: a trailing apostrophe (') and any characters following the apostrophe are not blended.
• Preferred style is to use this instead of a piped link, if possible.
• Blending can be suppressed by using <nowiki></nowiki> tags, which may be desirable in some instances. Example: a micro-second.

San Francisco also has ]ation.

Examples include ]es, ]s, and ]s.

a ]<nowiki>second</nowiki>

See the Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style. (Other page link)

• A link to another namespace.

See the ].

Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style#Italics is a link to a section within another page.

#Links and URLs is a link to another section on the current page.

Italics is a piped link to a section within another page.

• The part after the number sign (#) must match a section heading on the page. Matches must be exact in terms of spelling, case, and punctuation. Links to non-existent sections are not broken; they are treated as links to the top of the page.
• Include "| link title" to create a stylish (piped) link title.

] is a link to a section within another page.

] is a link to another section on the current page.

] is a piped link to a section within another page.

(Example renamed links)

Automatically hide stuff in parentheses: kingdom.

Automatically hide namespace: Village pump.

Or both: Manual of Style

But not: ]

• The server fills in the part after the pipe character (|) when you save the page. The next time you open the edit box you will see the expanded piped link. When previewing your edits, you will not see the expanded form until you press Save and Edit again. The same applies to links to sections within the same page (see previous entry).
• See Pipe trick for details.

Automatically hide stuff in parentheses: ].

Automatically hide namespace: ].

Or both:]

But not:]

(Create page link)

Links to pages that don’t exist yet look red: Misplaced Pages:Community portal/Opentask/Requested articles

• You can create it by clicking on the link.
• To create a new page:
  1. Create a link to it on some other (related) page.
  2. Save that page.
  3. Click on the link you just made. The new page will open for editing.
• For more information, see starting an article and check out Misplaced Pages's naming conventions.
• Please do not create a new article without linking to it from at least one other article.

] is a red link.

(Navigation links)

Misplaced Pages:How to edit a page is a link to this page.

• Self links appear as bold text when the article is viewed.
• Do not use this technique to make the article name bold in the first paragraph; see Article titles.

] is a link to this page.

(Signing comments)

The character tilde (~) is used when adding a comment to a Talk page. You should sign your comment by appending four tildes (~~~~) to the comment so as to add your user name plus date/time:

Patricia Zhang 13:40, Jan 14, 2007 (UTC)

Adding three tildes (~~~) will add just your user name:

Patricia Zhang

and adding five tildes (~~~~~) gives the date/time alone:

13:40, Jan 14, 2007 (UTC)

• The first two both provide a link to your user page.

The character '''tilde''' (~) is used when adding a comment to a Talk page. You should sign your comment by appending four tildes (~~~~) to the comment so as to add your user name plus date/time:
:~~~~
Adding three tildes (~~~) will add just your user name:
: ~~~
and adding five tildes (~~~~~) gives the date/time alone:
: ~~~~~

(Redirects)

• Redirect one article title to another by placing a directive like the one shown to the right on the first line of the article (such as at a page titled "USA").
• It is possible to redirect to a section. For example, a redirect to United States#History will redirect to the History section of the United States page, if it exists.

#REDIRECT ]

#REDIRECT ] will redirect to the ] page, to the History section, if it exists

(Wikimedia link)

To connect, via interwiki link, to a page on the same subject in another language, put a link of the form: ] near the bottom of the article. For example, in article "Plankton", which is available on a lot of other wikis, the interwiki link to the German Misplaced Pages looks like:

]

where the "de" is the language-code for "Deutsch" (the German language).

• It is recommended interwiki links be placed at the very end of the article.
• Interwiki links are not visible within the formatted article but, instead, appear as language links on the extreme left-margin column of a Misplaced Pages page (under menu section "languages").
• Please see Interlanguage links and the Complete list of language wikis available.

] ] ] ]

(Linked and why)

What links here and Related changes pages can be linked as:
Special: Whatlinkshere/Wikipedia: How to edit a page and Special: Recentchangeslinked/Wikipedia: How to edit a page

'''What links here''' and '''Related changes''' pages can be linked as:
[[Special: WhatLinkshere/Wikipedia: How to edit a page]] and
[[Special: RecentChangeslinked/ Misplaced Pages: How to edit a page]]

(User edits)

A user's Contributions page can be linked as: Special:Contributions/UserName or Special:Contributions/192.0.2.0

A user's '''Contributions''' page can be linked as: ] or ]

(Categorize)

• To put an article in a category, place a link like the one to the right anywhere in the article. As with interlanguage links, it does not matter where you put these links while editing as they will always show up in the same place when you save the page, but placement at the end of the edit box is recommended.

]

(Category page link)

• To link to a category page without putting the article into the category, use a colon prefix (":Category") in the link. The formatted text link will appear as: Category:Character sets.

]

(External links)

Three ways to link to external (non-wiki) sources:

1. Bare URL: http://www.wikipedia.org/ (bad style)
2. Unnamed link: (only used within article body for footnotes)
3. Named link: Misplaced Pages

See meta:interwiki map for the list of shortcuts.

• Square brackets indicate an external link. Note the use of a space (not a pipe) to separate the URL from the link text in the "named" version.
• In the URL, all symbols must be among:
  A-Z a-z 0-9 . _ \ / ~ % - + & # ? ! = ( ) @
• If a URL contains a character not in this list, it should be encoded by using a percent sign (%) followed by the hex code of the character, which can be found in the table of ASCII printable characters. For example, the caret character (^) would be encoded in a URL as %5E.
• If the "named" version contains a closing square bracket "]", then you must use the HTML special character syntax, i.e. &#93; otherwise the MediaWiki software will prematurely interpret this as the end of the external link.
• There is a class that can be used to remove the arrow image from the external link. It is used in Template:Ref to stop the URL from expanding during printing. It should never be used in the main body of an article. However, there is an exception: wikilinks in Image markup. An example of the markup is as follows:
  • Markup: <span class="plainlinksneverexpand"> [http://www.sysinternals.com/ ntw2k/freeware/winobj.shtml WinObj]</span>
  • Display: WinObj
• See External links for style issues.

Three ways to link to external (non-wiki) sources:
# Bare URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/ (bad style)
# Unnamed link: (only used within article body for footnotes)
# Named link:

(Wikimedia text link)

Linking to other wikis:

1. InterWiki link: Wiktionary:Hello
2. Interwiki link without prefix: Hello
3. Named interwiki link: Wiktionary definition of 'Hello'

• All of these forms lead to the URL http://en.wiktionary.org/Hello
• Note that interwiki links use the internal link style.
• See MetaWikiPedia:Interwiki_map for the list of shortcuts; if the site you want to link to is not on the list, use an external link (see above).
• See also Wikimedia sister projects.

Linking to another language's wiktionary:

1. Wiktionary:fr:bonjour
2. bonjour
3. fr:bonjour

• All of these forms lead to the URL http://fr.wiktionary.org/bonjour

Linking to other wikis:
# ] link: ]
# Interwiki link without prefix: ]
# Named interwiki link: ]

Linking to another language's wiktionary:

# ]
# ]
# ]

(Book sources)

ISBN 012345678X

ISBN 0-12-345678-X

• Link to books using their ISBN. This is preferred to linking to a specific online bookstore, because it gives the reader a choice of vendors. However, if one bookstore or online service provides additional free information, such as table of contents or excerpts from the text, then a link to that source will aid the user and is recommended.
• ISBN links do not need any extra markup, provided you use one of the indicated formats.

ISBN 012345678X

ISBN 0-12-345678-X

(RFC number)

Text mentioning an RFC number anywhere, e.g. RFC 4321.

• Link to Internet Engineering Task Force Request for Comments (RFCs).

Text mentioning an RFC number anywhere, e.g. RFC 4321.

(“As of” tag)

“As of” tags like "As of April 2009" and "as of April 2009" categorize info that will need updating.

“]” tags like "{{As of|2009|4|df=us}}" and "{{As of|2009|4|df=us|lc=on}}" categorize info that will need updating.

(Media link)

Sound

• To include links to non image uploads such as sounds, use a "media" link. For images, see next section.

Some uploaded sounds are listed at Commons:Sound.

]

(Edit links)

Link directly to edit for an existing page, or apply other link attributes.

• use {{fullurl:}}
• or use {{template:edit}} which conceals the edit label for page printing

{{fullurl:page name|action=edit}}

A picture: 
]

With alternative text:
]

• Alternative text, used when the image is unavailable or when the image is loaded in a text-only browser, or when spoken aloud, is strongly encouraged. See Alternative text for images for help on choosing it.

Floating to the right side of the page 
using the ''frame'' attribute and a caption:
]

• The frame tag automatically floats the image right.
• The caption is also used as alternate text.

Floating to the right side of the page 
using the ''thumb'' attribute and a caption:
]

• The thumb tag automatically floats the image right.
• The caption is also used as alternate text.
• An enlarge icon is placed in the lower right corner.

Floating to the right side of the page
''without'' a caption:
]

• The help topic on extended image syntax explains more options.

A picture resized to 30 pixels...
]

• The help topic on extended image syntax explains more options.

Image:wiki.png

Linking directly to the description page
of an image:
]

• Clicking on an image displayed on a page

(such as any of the ones above) also leads to the description page

Image of the jigsaw globe logo

Linking directly to an image
without displaying it:
]

• To include links to images shown as links instead of drawn on the page, use a "media" link.

Example:
<div style="display:inline;
width:220px; float:right;">
Place images here </div>

Example: {| align=right
|-
| 
Place images here
|}

Italicized text
Bold text
Italicized & Bold text

''Italicized text''
'''Bold text'''
'''''Italicized & Bold text'''''

Syntax highlighting for source code.

Computer code has a colored background and more stringent formatting. Suppose we want to define int main():

#include <iostream>
int main ( int argc,  char **argv ) {
    std::cout << "Hello World!";
    return 0;
}

Computer code has a colored background and more stringent formatting. Suppose we want to define int main():

<source lang=cpp>#include <iostream>
int main ( int argc,  char **argv ) {
    std::cout << "Hello World!";
    return 0;
}</source>

You can use small text for captions.

You can use <small>small text</small> for captions.

Better stay away from big text, unless it's within small text.

Better stay away from <big>big text</big>, unless
<small> it's <big>within</big> small</small> text.

You can strike out deleted material and underline new material.

You can also mark deleted material and inserted material using logical markup. For backwards compatibility better combine this potentially ignored new logical with the old physical markup.

• When editing regular Misplaced Pages articles, just make your changes and do not mark them up in any special way.
• When editing your own previous remarks in talk pages, it is sometimes appropriate to mark up deleted or inserted material.

You can <s>strike out deleted material</s>
and <u>underline new material</u>.
You can also mark <del>deleted material</del> and
<ins>inserted material</ins> using logical markup.
For backwards compatibility better combine this
potentially ignored new <del>logical</del> with
the old <s><del>physical</del></s> markup.

Suppressing interpretation of markup:
Link → (''to'') the ]

• Used to show literal data that would otherwise have special meaning.
• Escape all wiki markup, including that which looks like HTML tags.
• Does not escape HTML character references.
• To escape HTML character references such as &rarr; use &amp;rarr;

<nowiki>Link &rarr; (''to'') 
the ]</nowiki>

Commenting page source:
not shown when viewing page

• Used to leave comments in a page for future editors.
• Note that most comments should go on the appropriate Talk page.

<!-- comment here -->

Extra spacing within text can best be achieved using the pad template:

Mary   had a little lamb.

Mary {{pad|4em}} had a little lamb.

Diacritical marks:
À Á Â Ã Ä Å
Æ Ç È É Ê Ë
Ì Í Î Ï Ñ Ò
Ó Ô Õ Ö Ø Ù
Ú Û Ü ß à á
â ã ä å æ ç
è é ê ë ì í
î ï ñ ò ó ô
œ õ ö ø ù ú
û ü ÿ

• See special characters.

À Á Â Ã Ä Å 
Æ Ç È É Ê Ë 
Ì Í Î Ï Ñ Ò 
Ó Ô Õ Ö Ø Ù 
Ú Û Ü ß à á 
â ã ä å æ ç 
è é ê ë ì í
î ï ñ ò ó ô 
œ õ ö ø ù ú 
û ü ÿ

Punctuation:
¿ ¡ § ¶
† ‡ • – —
‹ › « »
‘ ’ “ ”

¿ ¡ § ¶
† ‡ • – —
‹ › « »
‘ ’ “ ”

Commercial symbols:
™ © ® ¢ € ¥
£ ¤

™ © ® ¢ € ¥ 
£ ¤

Subscripts:
x₁ x₂ x₃ or
x₀ x₁ x₂ x₃ x₄
x₅ x₆ x₇ x₈ x₉

Superscripts:
x x x or
x⁰ x¹ x² x³ x⁴
x⁵ x⁶ x⁷ x⁸ x⁹

• The Manual of Style prefers the x₁ format.
• The latter methods of sub/superscripting cannot be used in the most general context, as they rely on Unicode support which may not be present on all users' machines. For the 1-2-3 superscripts, it is nevertheless preferred when possible (as with units of measurement) because most browsers have an easier time formatting lines with it.

ε₀ = 8.85 × 10 C² / J m.

1 hectare = 1 E4 m²

x<sub>1</sub> x<sub>2</sub> x<sub>3</sub> or
<br/>
x&#8320; x&#8321; x&#8322; x&#8323; x&#8324;
<br/>
x&#8325; x&#8326; x&#8327; x&#8328; x&#8329;

x<sup>1</sup> x<sup>2</sup> x<sup>3</sup> or
<br/>
x&#8304; x&sup1; x&sup2; x&sup3; x&#8308;
<br/>
x&#8309; x&#8310; x&#8311; x&#8312; x&#8313;
&epsilon;<sub>0</sub> =
8.85 &times; 10<sup>&minus;12</sup>
C&sup2; / J m.
1 ] = ]

Greek characters:
α β γ δ ε ζ
η θ ι κ λ μ ν
ξ ο π ρ σ ς
τ υ φ χ ψ ω
Γ Δ Θ Λ Ξ Π
Σ Φ Ψ Ω

α β γ δ ε ζ 
η θ ι κ λ μ ν 
ξ ο π ρ σ ς
τ υ φ χ ψ ω
Γ Δ Θ Λ Ξ Π 
Σ Φ Ψ Ω

Mathematical characters:
∫ ∑ ∏ √ − ± ∞
≈ ∝ ≡ ≠ ≤ ≥
× · ÷ ∂ ′ ″
∇ ‰ ° ∴ ℵ ø
∈ ∉ ∩ ∪ ⊂ ⊃ ⊆ ⊇
¬ ∧ ∨ ∃ ∀
⇒ ⇐ ⇓ ⇑ ⇔
→ ↓ ↑ ← ↔

• See also WikiProject Mathematics and TeX.

∫ ∑ ∏ √ − ± ∞
≈ ∝ ≡ ≠ ≤ ≥
× · ÷ ∂ ′ ″
∇ ‰ ° ∴ ℵ ø
∈ ∉ ∩ ∪ ⊂ ⊃ ⊆ ⊇
¬ ∧ ∨ ∃ ∀ 
⇒ ⇐ ⇓ ⇑ ⇔
→ ↓ ↑ ← ↔

${\displaystyle \,\!\sin x+\ln y}$
sin x + ln y

${\displaystyle \mathbf {x} =\mathbf {0} }$
x = 0

Ordinary text should use wiki markup for emphasis, and should not use <i> or <b>. However, mathematical formulae often use italics, and sometimes use bold, for reasons unrelated to emphasis. Complex formulae should use <math> markup, and simple formulae may use <math> or {{math}} with <i> and <b> or '' and '''. Make sure to replace = with {{=}}.

<math>\,\! \sin x + \ln y</math><br>
{{math|sin <VAR >x</VAR > + ln <VAR >y</VAR >}}
<math>\mathbf{x} = \mathbf{0}</math><br>
{{math|<B >x</B > {{=}} <B >0</B >}}

Spacing in simple math formulae:
Obviously, x ≥ 0 is true when x is a real number.

• To space things out without allowing line breaks to interrupt the formula, you can use non-breaking spaces:  .
• However, even if you do not use non-breaking spaces, the {{math}} template will prevent line breaks anyway; you can use <BR > if you need an explicit line break inside a formula.

Obviously, {{math|<VAR >x</VAR ><sup>2</sup> ≥ 0}} is true when {{math|<VAR >x</VAR >}} is a real number.

Complicated formulae:

${\displaystyle \sum _{n=0}^{\infty }{\frac {x^{n}}{n!}}}$

• See Help:Displaying a formula for how to use <math>.
• A formula displayed on a line by itself should probably be indented by using the colon (:) character.

: <math>\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{x^n}{n!}</math>

The nowiki tag ignores ] ''markup''. It reformats text by removing newlines and multiple spaces. It still interprets special characters: →

<nowiki>
The nowiki tag ignores ] ''markup''.
It reformats text by removing newlines 
and multiple spaces.
It still interprets special
characters: &rarr;
</nowiki>

The pre tag ignores ] ''markup''.
It also doesn't     reformat text.
It still interprets special characters: →

<pre>
The pre tag ignores ] ''markup''.
It also doesn't     reformat text.
It still interprets special characters:
 &rarr;
</pre>

Leading spaces are another way to preserve formatting.

Putting a space at the beginning of each line
stops the text   from being reformatted. 
It still interprets Wiki markup and
special characters: →

Leading spaces are another way 
to preserve formatting.
 Putting a space at the beginning of each line
 stops the text   from being reformatted. 
 It still interprets ] ''markup'' and
 special characters: →