Help:Wiki markup
Wikitext' is the coding you use to format a FamilySearch Wiki page.
List of Wikitext Topics Covered[edit | edit source]
- 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).
- This an internal link to the article on US Cemeteries.
- A red link is a page that doesn't exist yet but they can be created by clicking on the link and typing something in the edit box.
- A link to the page you are on will appear only as bold text.
- Same target, different name.
- The target ("piped") text must be placed first, then the text to be displayed, second.
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California also has Cemeteries. (Blend link) Examples include Category:California Vital Records.
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See the Help:Navigation Basics. (Other page link)
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FamilySearch Wiki:Manual of Style 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.
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(Example renamed links) Automatically hide stuff in parentheses: Maintenance. Automatically hide namespace: Maintenance. Or both: Manual of Style But not: Italics
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(Create page link) Links to pages that don’t exist yet look red: FamilySearch Wiki:Maintenance and Patrolling
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(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:
Adding three tildes (~~~) will add just your user name:
and adding five tildes (~~~~~) gives the date/time alone:
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(Redirects)
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(Wikimedia link) To connect, via interwiki link, to a page on the same subject in another language, put a link of the form: [[language code:Title]] near the bottom of the article. For example, in article "Germany", which is available on a lot of other wikis, the interwiki link to the German Wikipedia looks like:
where the "de" is the language-code for "Deutsch" (the German language).
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(Linked and why) What links here and Related changes pages can be linked as: |
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[[July 20]] [[1969]] [[20 July]] [[1969]] and [[1969]]-[[07-20]] |
[[July 20]] [[1969]] [[20 July]] [[1969]] and [[1969]]-[[07-20]] |
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Linking to old revisions of pages, diffs, and specific history pages External link function is used for these as [[page]] will not work. |
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?
title=Help:Wiki_markup&diff=330350877&oldid=330349143 previous edit] |
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(User edits) A user's Contributions page can be linked as: Special:Contributions/UserName or Special:Contributions/192.0.2.0 |
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(Categorize)
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(Category page link)
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(External links) Three ways to link to external (non-wiki) sources:
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(Wikimedia text link) Linking to other wikis:
Linking to another language's wiktionary:
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(Book sources) ISBN 012345678X ISBN 0-12-345678-X Link to a book using alternate text, such as its title.
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(RFC number) Text mentioning an RFC number anywhere, e.g. RFC 4321.
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(“As of” tag) “As of” tags like "As of April 2009" and "as of April 2009" categorize info that will need updating. |
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(Media link)
Some uploaded sounds are listed at RTENOTITLE. |
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(Edit links) Link directly to edit for an existing page, or apply other link attributes.
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Images[edit | edit source]
Only images that have been uploaded to FamilySearch can be used. To upload images, use the upload page. You can find the uploaded image on the image list.
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| A picture:
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A picture: [[Image:wiki.png]] |
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With alternative text: [[Image:wiki.png|alt=Puzzle globe logo]]
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Floating to the right side of the page using the frame attribute and a caption:
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Floating to the right side of the page using the ''frame'' attribute and a caption: [[Image:wiki.png|frame|alt=Puzzle globe logo|Wikipedia Encyclopedia]]
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| Floating to the right side of the page using the thumb attribute and a caption:
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Floating to the right side of the page using the ''thumb'' attribute and a caption: [[Image:wiki.png|thumb|alt=Puzzle globe logo|Wikipedia Encyclopedia]]
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| Floating to the right side of the page without a caption:
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Floating to the right side of the page ''without'' a caption: [[Image:wiki.png|right|Wikipedia Encyclopedia]]
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| A picture resized to 30 pixels...
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A picture resized to 30 pixels... [[Image:wiki.png|30 px|Wikipedia Encyclopedia]]
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| Linking directly to the description page of an image: | Linking directly to the description page of an image: [[:Image:wiki.png]]
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| Linking directly to an image without displaying it: | Linking directly to an image without displaying it: [[Media:wiki.png|Image of the jigsaw globe logo]]
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| Using the span and div tag to separate images from text (note that this may allow images to cover text): | Example: <div style="display:inline; width:220px; float:right;"> Place images here </div> |
| Using wiki markup to make a table in which to place a vertical column of images (this helps edit links match headers, especially in Firefox browsers): | Example: {| align=right
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Place images here
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See the Wikipedia's image use policy as a guideline used on Wikipedia.
For further help on images, including some more versatile abilities, see the picture tutorial.
Lists[edit | edit source]
Bullet or numbered lists can be created using Wiki text.
Section headings[edit | edit source]
Headings are used to split articles into sections.
Text formatting[edit | edit source]
You can format your text using wiki markup.
Special characters[edit | edit source]
Symbols and other special characters can be inserted using Wiki text.
No or limited formatting[edit | edit source]
—showing exactly what is being typed A few different kinds of formatting will tell the Wiki to display things as you typed them — what you see, is what you get!
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| <nowiki> tag: The nowiki tag ignores [[Wiki]] ''markup''. It reformats text by removing newlines and multiple spaces. It still interprets special characters: → |
<nowiki> The nowiki tag ignores [[Wiki]] ''markup''. It reformats text by removing newlines and multiple spaces. It still interprets special characters: → </nowiki> |
<pre> tag:The pre tag ignores [[Wiki]] ''markup''. It also doesn't reformat text. It still interprets special characters: → |
<pre> The pre tag ignores [[Wiki]] ''markup''. It also doesn't reformat text. It still interprets special characters: → </pre> |
| Leading space: 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 [[Wiki]] ''markup'' and special characters: → |
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It's uncommon, but on occasion acceptable for notes to other editors ( see MOS ), to add a hidden comment within the text of an article. These comments are only visible when editing or viewing the source of a page. Most comments should go on the appropriate Talk page. The format is to surround the hidden text with and may cover several lines, e.g.:
<!-- An example of hidden comments This won't be visible except in "edit" mode. -->
Table of contents[edit | edit source]
When a page has at least four headings, a table of contents (TOC) will appear in front of the first header (after the lead). Putting __TOC__ anywhere forces the TOC to appear at that point (instead of just before the first heading). Putting __NOTOC__ anywhere forces the TOC to disappear. See also Compact TOC for alphabet and year headings.
Tables[edit | edit source]
There are two ways to build tables:
- in special Wiki-markup (see Help:Tables)
- Using HTML elements: <table>, <tr>, <td> or <th>.
For the latter, and a discussion on when tables are appropriate, see When to use tables.
Templates and Transcluding Pages[edit | edit source]
- Main article: Wikipedia:Transclusion
Templates are segments of Wiki markup that are meant to be copied automatically ("transcluded") into a page. You add them by putting the template's name in {{double braces}}. It is also possible to transclude other pages by using {{:colon and double braces}}.
There are three pairs of tags that can be used in Wikitext to control how transclusion affects parts of a template or article. They determine whether or not wikitext renders, either in its own article, which we will call "here", or in another article where it is transcluded, which we will call "there".
- <noinclude>: the content will not be rendered there. These tags have no effect here.
- <includeonly>: the content will render only there, and will not render here (like Invisible ink made visible by means of transclusion).
- <onlyinclude>: the content will render here and will render there, but it will only render there what is between these tags.
There can be several such section "elements". Also, they can be nested. All possible renderings are achievable. For example, to render there one or more sections of the page here use <onlyinclude> tags. To append text there, wrap the addition in <includeonly> tags above, within, or below the section. To omit portions of the section, nest <noinclude> tags within it.
If a page is transcluded without transclusion markup, it may cause an unintentional categorization. Any page transcluding it will contain the same category as the original page. Wrap the category markup with <noinclude> tags to prevent incorrect categorization.
Some templates take parameters, as well, which you separate with the pipe character.
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{{Transclusion demo}} |
{{Transclusion demo}}
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{{Help:Transclusion Demo}} |
{{Help:Transclusion Demo}}
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This template takes two parameters, and creates underlined text with a hover box for many modern browsers supporting CSS: Hover your mouse over this text Go to this page to see the H:title template itself: {{H:title}} |
This template takes two parameters, and
creates underlined text with a hover box
for many modern browsers supporting CSS:
{{H:title|This is the hover text|
Hover your mouse over this text}}
Go to this page to see the H:title template
itself: {{tl|H:title}}
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Variables[edit | edit source]
Variables are supported. They are often used in creating templates. See a list at Help:Magic words.
HTML[edit | edit source]
Many HTML tags can be used in in Wiki markup, see Help:Formatting for a list.
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Questions? Visit the Get Help to receive help with contributing to the Wiki. |
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