User:Tomdo08/doc/howto

{{dts|date|format=dmy|nowrap=off}} {{dts|year|month|day|bc|format=dmy|nowrap=off}}
deprecated?: {{date sortable|date}}} {{date sortable|v=2|date}}}
{{date|date|style}}
{{start date|year|month|day|HH|MM|SS|TimeZone}} {{end date|…}}
{{birth date|year|month|day|df=yes}} {{death date|…}}
{{start-date|date|…}} {{end-date|…}}
{{birth-date|date|…}} {{death-date|…}}
{{start date and age|yyyy|mm|dd|df=yes|br=yes}}

Formatting wikilinks

Wikipedia:Template messages/Links#Internal links

Pipe trick

The Pipe trick:

autoformatting with symbol "|"
example: [[somewikilink|]]
works as a subst
works also for templates

Slash trick

[[/tools/]] will give the same as [[/tools|tools]]

Reverse pipe trick

[[|A]] in page B (C) links to to page A (C)

Sectionlink

{{Sectionlink|section}} gives a link to {{SUBJECTPAGE}}#Section
{{Sectionlink|page|section}} gives a link to page#Section
Both versions look like [[…|section]]

Formatting diffs

{{diff|page=PAGENAME|diff=NEWID|oldid=OLDID|label=LABEL}}

Formatting navigation links

Template:Navbox

Formatting links to special pages

[[special:pagename/first argument]]

Formatting external links

Wikipedia:Template messages/Links#External links

{{dead link|date=January 2025}}
{{dead link|url=wayback-machine history|date=January 2025}}

{{soft redirect|target}}
{{wi}} (add a {{subst:long comment}} afterwards)

Formatting translations

{{lang-de|item}} {{lang-en|item}}

Formatting and creating TOC

{{toc left}}
{{toc right}}
{{toc right|clear=left,right,both|width=width}}
{{toc nest right}}

Formatting boxes and thingies

{{clear}} {{clearleft}} {{clearright}}

Line manipulation

A semicolon at the start of a line …

… is rendering the line as bold paragraph.

A colon at the start of a line …

… is rendering the line as an indented paragraph.

Formatting code

<code>…</code>
<syntaxhighlight lang="…">…</syntaxhighlight>

{{var|variable}} instead of {{var|variable}} -> both rendering variable -> do not forget <code>)

Formatting templates and wikicode

{{tlx|…}}

{{wikivar|WIKIWORD|WIKIVARIABLE}}

{{tlx|template|date{{=}}{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}}}

see Pipe trick

Formatting disambiguation

Hatnotes

Template:Otheruses templates

{{about}} {{about|use1|use2|page2}} is about

{{redirect|redirterm|use1|page1|use2|page2|and|page3}} is redirect from ...

Disambiguation pages

{{disambig|…}}

{{refer|alternatename1|alternatename2|type=also,stand,name}}

{{as of|YEAR|MONTH|DAY|alt=ALTTEXT|lc=on|url=CHECKURL}}

Formatting examples

{{lorem ipsum|number of pragraphs|prefix|suffix}}

Talkpage formatting

Talkback message:
{{talkback|Tomdo08|section}}
{{subst:mytalk|section|ts=~~~~~}}
{{subst:Please see|location|topic=topic}}

Talkpage intro:
{{usertalkback|you=notify|me=notify|small=no|icon=none}}

Linking

General linking

Category:Internal link templates

Linking URL

Help:URL

Percent-encoding

Linking intra- and inter-project

Help:Link
Help:Interwiki linking

Anchor

{{anchor|name|…}}

Linking TOC

linking to TOC: [[#toc|Contents]]/ makes Contents

Edit templates

[] Compare different edit templates:

{{Ed}} — plain-style edit link surrounded by <small> tags, specifically for templates only
{{Ed right}} — plain-style edit link surrounded by <small> tags and aligned to right of page, specifically for templates only
{{Edit}} — plain-style edit link, applicable to all Wikipedia namespaces
{{Edit section}} — edit link surrounded by <div> tags by default which can specify which section to edit on a page, applicable to all Wikipedia namespaces
{{Vedit}} — plain-style edit link which edit with the Wikipedia:VisualEditor, applicable to all Wikipedia namespaces

Templates with view, talk and edit links:

{{Navbar}} — navigation bar with configurable caption and view·talk·edit links, specifically for templates only
{{View}} — navbar-style view·talk·edit links, specifically for templates only
{{VTE}} & {{V}} — navbar-style V·T·E links (i.e. view·talk·edit links in short forms), specifically for templates only

Linking disambiguation and redirection

always link to "something (disambiguation)" or "[[something (disambiguation)|replacetext]]"

for (disambiguation)-redirects to a disambiguation page: {{R to disambiguation page}}

for redirects to a disambiguation page which should not be linked to {{R from ambiguous page}}

{{R from alternative name}}

Wikipedia:Template messages/General#Disambiguation and redirection

Linking Categories

… do autolinking to containing page from category pages.
… are invisible.
… use the parameter as Sortkey

Linking Wikipedia Books

{{Wikipedia-Books link|book name|link text}}

Linking and including images

To make a simple link, a special syntax is necessary:
Wikipedia:Picture tutorial#Linking without displaying
The simple link is misused for a special template action (thereby completely obscuring name, content and usage):
Help:Files#Using files

Tagging

Tagging for deletion

{{subst:proposed deletion|reason}}

Tags for redirects

Category:Redirect templates

Un-shortpage-ing

{{subst:long comment}}

Item separation

<nowiki></nowiki>

Transclusions and templates

Wikipedia:Transclusion

good for multiple inclusion of same things, special things, templates

examples:

{{Talk:Pussycat/Let's delete Pussycat}}
{{Special:Prefixindex/General}}
{{Special:Recentchangeslinked/General}}, see also Related changes

<noinclude> … </noinclude>
<includeonly> … </includeonly>
<onlyinclude> … </onlyinclude>
(see Help:Template#Noinclude, includeonly, and onlyinclude )

{{User:Tomdo08/workpanel above}}
{{User:Tomdo08/workpanel below}}

subst:

Template programming

Help:Template

Message templates

Wikipedia:Template messages

Template:Multiple issues

{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}

{{Lead too long|date=January 2025}}

{{Merge|…|discuss={{sectionlink|…}}|date=January 2025}}

link^{[disambiguation needed]} is made by [[link]]{{dn}}