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== Wiki toolset for ablecore == == Wiki toolset for ablecore ==


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As an AIW member please review ] and please take a side. As an AIW member please review ] and please take a side.

== Right to a voice on schools ==
Sorry to bother you, but deletionists are trying disenfranchise those of us who believe that all established and verifiable secondary schools are significant enough to be kept or at least merged. If you agree that it is not an "aburd" belief to hold, please give your opinion here: ] ] 22:32, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

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Wiki toolset for ablecore

THIS PAGE IS A STARTER TOOLSET for ablecore. COPY IT PER INSTRUCTIONS, THEN MODIFY IT IN ACCORDANCE WITH YOUR OWN WISHES!!!

This is Usernames's Toolset.

To copy this page to your own set of pages for editing, proceed as follows:

1. Click on edit this page.
2. Highlight the text by pressing down the left button of your mouse (or equivalent) at the upper left corner of the opened window, then 'dragging' all the way down to the extreme lower right corner; release the button, and press ctrl-C (or equivalent for COPY).
3. Click on Cancel, below the open window to the right.
4. In the search box in the left column, enter User:UserName/Toolset, where UserName is your name.
5. Press GO and then opt to create the new page.
6. Make sure your cursor is in the window that appears, then type ctrl-V (or equivalent for PASTE). Click on Save page.
7. Bookmark the resulting page as your entry to Misplaced Pages.

THIS PAGE IS A STARTER TOOLSET. COPY IT PER INSTRUCTIONS, THEN MODIFY IT IN ACCORDANCE WITH YOUR OWN WISHES!!!

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Policies and guidelines (list)
Principles
Content policies
Conduct policies
Other policy categories
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My Shortcuts


ToDo

Welcome Wagon

MUST READ: Links for newcomers:

File:Pdnbtn.png
Please do not bite the newcomers!
  1. Sign Your Posts on talk & discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date; three tildes will produce your name only; five just the date.
  2. Don't forget to use the Show preview button; it saves a lot of wear and tear on the computers, and keeps the various wiki lists clean of lots of unnecessary entries. Also, please don't forget to fill in the Edit summary.
  3. Questions? ==> check out Where to ask a question, Village pump, or ask on someone's talk page XXXX
  4. Write to the target audience: A related question, is who should the pages be written for? Most writers are in college or past college. However, there is evidence that most readers are high-school students, or others not too familar with a topic. (Else, why would they be looking it up in an encyclopedia?) What is obvious or of minor relevance to a CS student or grad, may be very unclear or important to a high-school student, someone who is thinking of returning to college, or just someone looking for information (but not a learned treatise). Of course, Misplaced Pages has yet to define its target audience very well.

Really, Really Important things

Spelling/Grammar checking

Whenever doing anything but minor editing, copy and paste to a word-processor with real time spelling/grammar checking!

(or use a tool-bar with a built-in spellcheck such as Google Toolbar.)

Information & Resources for Contributors & Editors

This is clearly not an exhaustive list. It is an eclectic collection intended to include the main features of Wikimedia, especially those not likely to reveal themselves easily to the novice. However, most of the very advanced features are not referenced here.

But, if a question or article has existed on Misplaced Pages for long enough, you should be able to find it through a Google or Yahoo! search. (See Searching, below on this page).

(Note for Gen X, Y, Z, etc.— Think of Misplaced Pages, and Wikimedia in general, as a giant adventure game, where there is always something new around the corner...)



More Style Stuff:


See also

Other Links:


Map of Misplaced Pages Informational Documents:

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Summary:

  • Write first for the Educated Layperson (that's hard... But I would suggest using the "New Scientist" as a style example).
    • ...then try to do it better and write for the beginner (that's harder)
  • If an educated layperson can't figure it out by following the wikilinks, then it's too hard.
    • Yes, we're experts (more or less) but we're writing for a general audience. We could write a clever, concise, deep sentence to explain something...but it's useless if it isn't easy to understand.
  • Eschew argot, jargon, technicality and cant.

Formating:

How Users Read on the Web

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Indenting by one space causes this box to form and suppresses certain codes.

Images

To insert an image into an article, edit the article and insert

File:Wiki Fairy.gif
A Wiki fairy in the wild.

]

For example, ]]] Gives you the image on the right, where the caption is a wiki-link.

To have an image deleted, edit its description page and put
{{deletebecause|redundant to image FOO.jpg}} (but of course you would insert the name of the FOO.jpg image. Everything to the right of the | is comment. )

Redirects

#REDIRECT ]

To go (back) to a Redirect Page itself (e.g., to change or delete the redirect), use the link in the (Redirected from Redirect Page) line, which appears at the top of the target page, just below the line '.' (For this line to appear, you must first Go to the Redirect Page.)

Box Formats

Daterank - namemain space
edits
edits
last 30 days
rank change
Month 27, 200x000 UserName0000000↑ 000

Formatting ISBN

  • simply typing ISBN 3-540-60521-5 produces the special reference display ISBN 3-540-60521-5

$$$ Barnstar:

Be generous in your Barnstar awards.

Image:$$$ barnstar.png|Identify Barnstar Congratulations!!! I hereby award a $$$ Barnstar to SomeEditor for Some Reason beyond the call of duty!

UserName ~date~ (UTC)

Test Templates:

'Test' Templates for newcomers' greetings and vandals' 'greetings.'

HTML Colors:

HTML Colors for use in color=color Misplaced Pages (named color) codes, e.g., in place of the color=#FEDCBA98 (hexidecimal color) codes.

AFD

As an AIW member please review Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/List of relationships with age disparity and please take a side.

Right to a voice on schools

Sorry to bother you, but deletionists are trying disenfranchise those of us who believe that all established and verifiable secondary schools are significant enough to be kept or at least merged. If you agree that it is not an "aburd" belief to hold, please give your opinion here: Misplaced Pages:Deletion_review/Log/2006_September_22#Finger_Lakes_Christian_School Kappa 22:32, 22 September 2006 (UTC)