Pensapedia:How to edit an article
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Pensapedia is a wiki, which means that anyone can easily edit any unprotected page and save those changes immediately to that page. After your first edit, you will be a Pensapedia editor! Good luck with your first edit.
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Introduction
Editing most Pensapedia pages is not very difficult at all. Simply click on the "edit this page" tab at the top of a Pensapedia page (or on a section-edit link). This will bring you to a new page with a text box containing the editable text of the original page. If you just want to experiment, please do so in the sandbox, not here. You should write a short edit summary in the small field below the edit-box. You may use shorthand to describe your changes, as described in the legend, and when you have finished, press the Show preview button to see how your changes will look. You can also see the difference between the page with your edits and the previous version of the page by pressing the "Show changes" button. If you're satisfied with what you see, be bold and press the Save page button. Your changes will immediately be visible to all Pensapedia users.
You can also click on the "Discussion" tab to see the corresponding talk page, which contains comments about the page from other Pensapedia users. Click on the "+" tab to add a new section, or edit the page in the same way as an article page.
You should remember to sign your messages on talk pages and some special-purpose project pages, but you should not sign edits you make to regular articles. In page histories, the MediaWiki software keeps track of which user makes each change.
Minor edits
Template:Further A check to the "minor edit" box signifies that only superficial differences exist between the current and previous version: typo corrections, formatting and presentational changes, rearranging of text without modifying content, etc. A minor edit is a version that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. The "minor edit" option is one of several options only available to registered users.
Major edits
All editors are encouraged to be bold, but there are several things that a user can do to ensure that major edits are performed smoothly. Before engaging in a major edit, consider discussing proposed changes on the article discussion/talk page. During the edit, if doing so over an extended period of time, the {{inuse}} tag can reduce the likelihood of an edit conflict. Once the edit has been completed, the inclusion of an edit summary will assist in documenting the changes. These steps will all help to ensure that major edits are well received by the Pensapedia community.
A major edit is a version that should be reviewed to confirm that it is consensual to all concerned editors. Therefore, any change that affects the meaning of an article is major (not minor), even if the edit is a single word.
Wiki markup
The wiki markup is the syntax system you can use to format a Pensapedia page; please see Help:Editing for details on it, and Help:Wikitext examples for a longer list of the possibilities of Wikitext. A cheatsheet is also available for quick reference.
Links and URLs
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Plaza Ferdinand VII is located in downtown Pensacola.
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Plaza Ferdinand VII is located in [[downtown Pensacola]]. |
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The downtown area has many shops and restaurants.
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The [[Downtown Pensacola|downtown area]] has many shops and restaurants. |
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Several Escambia County Commissioners eat at downtown Pensacola's many restaurants. Examples include buses, taxicabs, and streetcars.
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Several [[Escambia County Commission]]ers eat at [[downtown Pensacola]]'s many restaurants. a [[micro]]<nowiki>second </nowiki> |
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See the Pensapedia:Manual of Style.
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See the [[Pensapedia:Manual of Style]]. |
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Pensapedia: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. #example is a link to an anchor that was created usingan id attribute .
Italics is a stylish link to a section within another page.
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[[Pensapedia: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. [[#example]] is a link to an anchor that was created using <div id="example">an id attribute</div>. [[Pensapedia:Manual of Style#Italics|Italics]] is a stylish link to a section within another page. |
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Automatically hide stuff in parentheses: Pelican. Automatically hide namespace: Village Pump. Or both: Manual of Style But not: [[Pensapedia:Manual of Style#Links|]]
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Automatically hide stuff in parentheses: [[Pelican (disambiguation)|]]. Automatically hide namespace: [[Pensapedia:Village Pump|]]. Or both: [[Pensapedia: Manual of Style (headings)|]] But not: [[Pensapedia: Manual of Style#Links|]]
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Pensacola sarcasm society is a page that does not exist yet.
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[[Pensacola sarcasm society]] is a page that does not exist yet. |
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How to edit a page is this page.
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[[How to edit a page]] is this page. |
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When adding a comment to a Talk page, you should sign it by adding three tildes to add your user name: or four to add user name plus date/time:
Five tildes gives the date/time alone:
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When adding a comment to a Talk page,you should sign it by adding three tildes to add your user name: : ~~~ or four to add user name plus date/time: : ~~~~ Five tildes gives the date/time alone: : ~~~~~ |
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#REDIRECT [[Emerald Coast Utilities Authority]] Redirect [[Emerald Coast Utilities Authority#Board|ECUA Board]] will redirect to the [[Emerald Coast Utilities Authority]] page, to the Board section if it exists. |
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What links here and Related changes pages can be linked as: Special:Whatlinkshere/Pensapedia:How to edit a page and Special:Recentchangeslinked/Pensapedia:How to edit a page |
'''What links here''' and '''Related changes''' pages can be linked as: [[Special:Whatlinkshere/ Pensapedia:How to edit a page]] and [[Special:Recentchangeslinked/ Pensapedia:How to edit a page]] |
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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: [[Special:Contributions/UserName]] or [[Special:Contributions/192.0.2.0]] |
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[[Category:Private schools]] |
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[[:Category:Private schools]] |
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Three ways to link to external (non-wiki) sources:
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Three ways to link to external (non-wiki) sources: # Bare URL: http://http://www.pensapedia.com/ (bad style) # Unnamed link: [http://http://www.pensapedia.com/] (only used within article body for footnotes) # Named link: [http://http://www.pensapedia.com Pensapedia] |
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Linking to other wikis:
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Linking to other wikis: # Interwiki link: [[Wikipedia:Pensacola]] # Interwiki link without prefix: [[Wikipedia:Pensacola|]] # Named interwiki link: [[Wikipedia:Pensacola|Wikipedia's entry for Pensacola]] |
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Date formats:
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Date formats: # [[August 16]], [[2004]] # [[16 August]] [[2004]] # [[2004]]-[[08-16]] # [[2004-08-16]] |
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Special WP:AO links like this year needing future maintenance |
Special "[[Pensapedia:As of|as of]]" links like [[As of 2007|this year]] needing future maintenance |
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[media:ChuckieDonno4.mov|Chuckie & Donno commercial]] |
Images
Only images that have been uploaded to Pensapedia 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: | A picture: [[Image:wiki.png]] |
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With alternative text: [[Image:PensapediaLogo.png|ship book logo]]
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Floating to the right side of the page using the frame attribute and a caption:
 Pensapedia logo |
Floating to the right side of the page using the ''frame'' attribute and a caption: [[Image:PensapediaLogo.png|frame|Pensapedia logo]]
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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:PensapediaLogo.png|thumb|Pensapedia logo]]
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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:PensapediaLogo.png|right|Pensapedia logo]]
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| A picture resized to 30 pixels...
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A picture resized to 30 pixels... [[Image:PensapediaLogo.png|30 px]]
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| Linking directly to the description page of an image: | Linking directly to the description page of an image: [[:Image:PensapediaLogo.png]]
(such as any of the ones above) also leads to the description page |
| Linking directly to an image without displaying it: | Linking directly to an image without displaying it: [[:Media:PensapediaLogo.png|Image of the ship book logo]]
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| Using the 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 Pensapedia's image use policy as a guideline used on Pensapedia.
For further help on images, including some more versatile abilities, see the topic on Extended image syntax.
Character formatting
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Emphasized text |
''Emphasized text'' '''Strong emphasis''' '''''Even stronger emphasis''''' |
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A typewriter font for monospace text
or for computer code:
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A typewriter font for <tt>monospace text</tt> or for computer code: <code>int main()</code> |
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You can use small text for captions. |
You can use <small>small text</small> for captions. |
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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. |
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You can You can also mark
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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. |
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Suppressing interpretation of markup:
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<nowiki>Link → (''to'')
the [[Pensapedia FAQ]]</nowiki>
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Commenting page source:
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Diacritical marks:
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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 |
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Punctuation:
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¿ ¡ § ¶ † ‡ • – — ‹ › « » ‘ ’ “ ” |
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Commercial symbols:
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™ © ® ¢ € ¥ £ ¤ |
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Subscripts:
Superscripts:
ε0 = 8.85 × 10−12 C² / J m. |
x<sub>1</sub> x<sub>2</sub> x<sub>3</sub> or <br/> x₀ x₁ x₂ x₃ x₄ <br/> x₅ x₆ x₇ x₈ x₉ x<sup>1</sup> x<sup>2</sup> x<sup>3</sup> or <br/> x⁰ x¹ x² x³ x⁴ <br/> x⁵ x⁶ x⁷ x⁸ x⁹ ε<sub>0</sub> = 8.85 × 10<sup>−12</sup> C² / J m. 1 [[hectare]] = [[1 E4 m²]] |
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Greek characters:
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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 |
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Mathematical characters:
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∫ ∑ ∏ √ − ± ∞ ≈ ∝ ≡ ≠ ≤ ≥ × · ÷ ∂ ′ ″ ∇ ‰ ° ∴ ℵ ø ∈ ∉ ∩ ∪ ⊂ ⊃ ⊆ ⊇ ¬ ∧ ∨ ∃ ∀ ⇒ ⇐ ⇓ ⇑ ⇔ → ↓ ↑ ← ↔ |
No or limited formatting - 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> tags |
The nowiki tag ignores [[Help:What is a wiki?|wiki]] ''markup''. It reformats text by removing newlines and multiple spaces. It still interprets special characters: → |
<nowiki> The nowiki tag ignores [[Help:What is a wiki?|wiki]] ''markup''. It reformats text by removing newlines and multiple spaces. It still interprets special characters: → </nowiki> |
| <pre> tags |
The pre tag ignores [[Help:What is a wiki?|wiki]] ''markup''. It also doesn't reformat text. It still interprets special characters: → |
<pre> The pre tag ignores [[Help:What is a wiki?|wiki]] ''markup''. It also doesn't reformat text. It still interprets special characters: → </pre> |
| Leading spaces |
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 [[Help:What is a wiki?|wiki]] ''markup'' and special characters: → |
Table of contents
At the current status of the wiki markup language, having at least four headers on a page triggers the TOC to appear in front of the first header (or after introductory sections). Putting __TOC__ anywhere forces the TOC to appear at that point (instead of just before the first header). Putting __NOTOC__ anywhere forces the TOC to disappear. See also compact TOC for alphabet and year headings.
Tables
There are two ways to build tables:
- in special Wiki-markup (see Help:Table)
- with the usual HTML elements: <table>, <tr>, <td> or <th>.
For the latter, and a discussion on when tables are appropriate, see Pensapedia:When to use tables.
Variables
(See also Help:Variable)
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| {{CURRENTWEEK}} | 47 |
| {{CURRENTDOW}} | 0 |
| {{CURRENTMONTH}} | 11 |
| {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} | November |
| {{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}} | November |
| {{CURRENTDAY}} | 24 |
| {{CURRENTDAYNAME}} | Sunday |
| {{CURRENTYEAR}} | 2024 |
| {{CURRENTTIME}} | 02:15 |
| {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} | 2,400 |
| {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} | 6,542 |
| {{PAGENAME}} | How to edit an article |
| {{NAMESPACE}} | Pensapedia |
| {{REVISIONID}} | 11629 |
| {{localurl:pagename}} | /wiki/Pagename |
| {{localurl:Pensapedia:Sandbox|action=edit}} | /mediawiki/index.php?title=Pensapedia:Sandbox&action=edit |
| {{fullurl:pagename}} | https://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/Pagename |
| {{fullurl:pagename|query_string}} | https://www.pensapedia.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Pagename&query_string |
| {{SERVER}} | https://www.pensapedia.com |
| {{ns:1}} | Talk |
| {{ns:2}} | User |
| {{ns:3}} | User talk |
| {{ns:4}} | Pensapedia |
| {{ns:5}} | Pensapedia talk |
| {{ns:6}} | File |
| {{ns:7}} | File talk |
| {{ns:8}} | MediaWiki |
| {{ns:9}} | MediaWiki talk |
| {{ns:10}} | Template |
| {{ns:11}} | Template talk |
| {{ns:12}} | Help |
| {{ns:13}} | Help talk |
| {{ns:14}} | Category |
| {{ns:15}} | Category talk |
| {{SITENAME}} | Pensapedia, the Pensacola encyclopedia |
NUMBEROFARTICLES is the number of pages in the main namespace which contain a link and are not a redirect, in other words number of articles, stubs containing a link, and disambiguation pages.
CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN is the genitive (possessive) grammatical form of the month name, as used in some languages; CURRENTMONTHNAME is the nominative (subject) form, as usually seen in English.
In languages where it makes a difference, you can use constructs like {{grammar:case|word}} to convert a word from the nominative case to some other case. For example, {{grammar:genitive|{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}}} means the same as {{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}}.
Templates
The MediaWiki software used by Pensapedia has support for templates. This means standardized text chunks (such as boilerplate text) can be inserted into articles. For example, typing {{stub}} will appear as "This article is a stub. You can help Pensapedia by expanding it." when the page is saved. See Pensapedia:Template messages for the complete list. Other commonly used templates are: {{disambig}} for disambiguation pages, {{spoiler}} for spoiler warnings and {{sectstub}} like an article stub but for a section. There are many subject-specific stubs for example: {{Geo-stub}}, {{Hist-stub}}, and {{Bio-stub}}. For a complete list of stubs see Pensapedia:Types of stubs.
More information on editing wiki pages
You may also want to learn about:
- How to start a page
- Informal tips on contributing to Pensapedia
- Editing tasks in general at the Pensapedia:Editing FAQ
- Pensapedia:Cheatsheet
- Rename pages boldly, at Pensapedia:How to rename (move) a page
- Preferred layout of your article, at Guide to layout
- Style conventions in the Pensapedia:Manual of Style
- An article with annotations pointing out common Pensapedia style and layout issues, at Pensapedia:Annotated article
- General policies in Pensapedia:Policies and guidelines
- Pensapedia:Naming conventions for how to name articles themselves
- Help on editing very large articles
- If you are making an article about something that belongs to a group of objects (a city, an astronomical object, a Chinese character...) check if there is a WikiProject on the group and try to follow its directions explicitly.
- Pensapedia:Namespace
