Help:How to Code

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You can format your text using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in italic, you include it in two single quotes like ''this''

Adding References

To find out how to add references using footnotes, see this Help page.

Paragraphs

Mediawiki ignores normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can also start a newline with the HTML tag <br /> or with <p></p>.

HTML

Some HTML-Tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example <code>, <div>, <span> and <font>.

Recapitulative table

preformatted text is done with
a space at the 
beginning of the line

Links

To create a link to an article, surround the word you would like to make a link with two sets of brackets like this: [[Link]]

To create a link with a title that is different than the page it is linked to format the link like this:[[Page linked to|title]]

To create an external link surround the web address with [ and a ] for example to make an external link to fox.com, you would do the following [http://www.fox.com]

To create a link to a category after the [[ put an : for example to create a link to the category, Conservapedians, do the following: [[:Category:Conservapedians]] you can also change the default text like this: [[:Category:Conservapedians|WXYZ]]

To create a link to an image after the [[ put an : for example to create a link to the image, Cat.jpg, do the following: [[:Image:Cat.jpg]] you can also change the default text like this: [[:Image:Cat.jpg|WXYZ]]

To create a list of links put an * in front of each link, for example:

*[[A]]

*[[B]]

*[[C]]

*[[D]]

Important templates

{{delete}} propose deletion of an article

{{speedy}} propose speedy deletion of an article

{{merge with|A}} propose merging an article with the article, A

{{move|A}} proposes moving this article to, A

{{User Retired}} means you are retiring from Conservapedia

{{Category redirect|United States Cities and Towns}} tell users of a category that they should be looking at a different preferred category.

For example if there was a category called, American Cities and Towns, you'd put {{Category redirect|United States Cities and Towns}} to tell users to use the category, United States Cities and Towns, instead of, American Cities and Towns, as it is the preffered category for cities in the USA.

Creating redirects

To create a redirect put a #Redirect[[ then the name of the page for it to be redirected then ]] for example to redirect this page to the article on Bear, you'd put: #Redirect[[Bear]]

Other

[[Category:A]] adds an article to Category, A

[[Image:A.GIF]] loads the picture A.GIF on an article

{{Car}} adds the template Car to an article

{{SUBST:ABC}} substitutes all the information from Template:ABC into the article, note all future changes to the template:ABC will not be shown on the article

{{welcome}} --~~~~ welcomes a user to Conservapedia, note this should only be put on a user's talk page

{{welcome|sig=~~~~}} welcomes a user to Conservapedia, note this should only be put on a user's talk page

Signature

To sign your username, type three tildes(~~~). To sign your username with a timestamp, use four tildes (~~~~)

Making a custom signature

first make a subpage of user page which has your custom signature for example, User:Deborah/sig go to, my preferences click on raw signatures and put {{Subst:User:Deborah/sig}}

Creating articles

Please see How to create a new article for help on this.

Categories

See Category tag for help on assigning articles to categories.

Editing etiquette

Observe good editing etiquette when editing.

Templates

See here for a list of templates with brief descriptions.

See here for creating templates.