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'''Big point''': The "Show Preview" button is your friend! | '''Big point''': The "Show Preview" button is your friend! | ||
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or pronoun usage, or since we have a number of Latin words, different | or pronoun usage, or since we have a number of Latin words, different | ||
gender endings. So, for instance, if a character discussed in a page | gender endings. So, for instance, if a character discussed in a page | ||
is a female wizard, then a link to magus would | is a female wizard, then a link to magus would be coded [[Magus|maga]] and simply read 'maga'. | ||
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=====Special PRlinks===== | =====Special PRlinks===== | ||
A special | A special note for links to certain special pages. Categories, templates, user pages and others all begin with the type of page they are, followed by a colon, followed by the specific page name. There is no space on either side of the colon itself, but any spaces after the first word of the specific page name remain. Thus, | ||
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named "http://webadress|Link" and have "Name as the name" | named "http://webadress|Link" and have "Name as the name" | ||
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Editing Tips
Big point: The "Show Preview" button is your friend!
Corollary: Remember to press the "Save Page" button once you see a previewed edit that's right! :/
Technical Stuff
PRlinks
I call the internal links PRlinks. It's short for Project Redcap links. I also occassionaly mistype it as RPlinks, so if you see that, it's meant to be PRlinks. To do a PRlink, you just put double brackets around a term that matches a page name. Some examples:
[[Order of Hermes]] for that page. In this case, the name in the brackets matches the name of the page, including capitals. [[Page Name|text in article you're editing]] for when you want to have words that don't match the name of the page, usually for context in the page you're editting. Most often this involves the text using a plural where the linked page is singular, or different capitalization, or pronoun usage, or since we have a number of Latin words, different gender endings. So, for instance, if a character discussed in a page is a female wizard, then a link to magus would be coded [[Magus|maga]] and simply read 'maga'.
Special PRlinks
A special note for links to certain special pages. Categories, templates, user pages and others all begin with the type of page they are, followed by a colon, followed by the specific page name. There is no space on either side of the colon itself, but any spaces after the first word of the specific page name remain. Thus,
[[Template:Specific template name]] [[User:Specific User Name]] [[Category:Category Name]] if you want the link to go to the bottom of the page AND for the article your editting to be listed in that category. [[:Category:Category Name]] if you want a link to appear where you type it in the text. The article will NOT be included in the category by this kind of link.
External links
These work only a little different. First, they use only single brackets. Second, since a webaddress has no spaces, no | is needed. Everything after the space following the address is part of the text. Thus, if you include a | after a space following the web address, the text in the link will begin with the |.
[http://webaddress Link Name] is the proper way [http://webadress | Link Name] will show "| Link Name" in the article [http://webadress|Link Name] will link to the webadress you enter, but with "|Link" at the end, likely making it a cannot find. It also will have "Name" as the link name. [[http://webadress Link Name]] will look for a page in Project Redcap named "http://webadress Link Name" [[http://webadress|Link Name]] will look for a page in Project Redcap named "http://webadress|Link" and have "Name as the name"