User:Astronouth7303/Wiki Tips and Tricks

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Linking to a section in another Codex Article[edit]

To link to specific section of an article, such as the Administrative Panels->Link Categories section you can use the # sign. The link in the previous sentence looks like this: [[Administration_Panels#Link Categories|Link Categories Administrative Panels, Link Categories section]]

Linking correctly to The Loop[edit]

  • The Loop [[The Loop]] is the correct way to link to The Loop article.
  • the loop [[the loop]] doesn't work, puts you in edit mode.
  • The loop [[The loop]] doesn't work, puts you in edit mode.
  • the Loop [[the Loop]] doesn't work, puts you in edit mode.
  • The_Loop [[The Loop]] is another correct way to link to The Loop article.
  • the_loop [[the_loop]] doesn't work, puts you in edit mode.
  • The_loop [[The_loop]] doesn't work, puts you in edit mode.
  • the_Loop [[the_Loop]] doesn't work, puts you in edit mode.

Signature with User (talk) embedded[edit]

Codex Guidelines recommend a signature when making entries to User Talk pages. I saw Carthik's cool signature line, so, from WikiMedia Help, found you can customize how your signature gets rendered when you use the wiki text conversion "~~~~".

So, in my Preferences Nickname field I put:

MichaelH]] [[User_talk:MichaelH|(talk)

The wiki text conversion renders the ~~~~ to something like this:

[[User:MichaelH|MichaelH ]] [[User_talk:MichaelH|(talk)]] 16:15, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

And, in the User's Talk page it looks like this:

MichaelH (talk) 16:15, 12 May 2005 (UTC)