Essay on editing Wikipedia
There are issues about using kilometres (or "kilometers") in pages. The Manual of Style (WP:MOS) has advised to show the first amount mentioned in kilometers with the word spelled-out for the language dialect of the article ("kilometers" for U.S. English). After the first use, the word can be abbreviated as "km". The measurement converter Template:Convert can be used to calculate the equivalent miles, but in the lede section of articles, hand-coded text is preferred to allow pop-up text from the lede to avoid showing "{{convert|...}}" in the pop-up description.
Outside the lead paragraph, use "{{convert|235|km|0}}" or for American English, use "{{convert|235|km|0|sp=us}}" with parameter "sp=us" to show the U.S. spelling.
Because the lede section of articles should avoid using text templates (to allow pop-up display of simple text), the following table can be used to copy/paste conversions into the top of an article page:
- 1 kilometre (0.6 mi)
- 2 kilometres (1.2 mi)
- 3 kilometres (1.9 mi)
- 4 kilometres (2.5 mi)
- 5 kilometres (3.1 mi)
- 6 kilometres (3.7 mi)
- 7 kilometres (4.3 mi)
- 8 kilometres (5.0 mi)
- 9 kilometres (5.6 mi)
- 10 kilometres (6.2 mi)
- 11 kilometres (6.8 mi)
- 12 kilometres (7.5 mi)
- 13 kilometres (8.1 mi)
- 14 kilometres (8.7 mi)
- 15 kilometres (9.3 mi)
- 16 kilometres (9.9 mi)
- 17 kilometres (10.6 mi)
- 18 kilometres (11.2 mi)
- 19 kilometres (11.8 mi)
- 20 kilometres (12 mi)
- 21 kilometres (13 mi)
- 22 kilometres (14 mi)
- 23 kilometres (14 mi)
- 24 kilometres (15 mi)
- 25 kilometres (16 mi)
- 26 kilometres (16 mi)
- 27 kilometres (17 mi)
- 28 kilometres (17 mi)
- 29 kilometres (18 mi)
- 30 kilometres (19 mi)
- 31 kilometres (19 mi)
- 32 kilometres (20 mi)
- 33 kilometres (21 mi)
- 34 kilometres (21 mi)
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- 35 kilometres (22 mi)
- 36 kilometres (22 mi)
- 37 kilometres (23 mi)
- 38 kilometres (24 mi)
- 39 kilometres (24 mi)
- 40 kilometres (25 mi)
- 41 kilometres (25 mi)
- 42 kilometres (26 mi)
- 43 kilometres (27 mi)
- 44 kilometres (27 mi)
- 45 kilometres (28 mi)
- 46 kilometres (29 mi)
- 47 kilometres (29 mi)
- 48 kilometres (30 mi)
- 49 kilometres (30 mi)
- 50 kilometres (31 mi)
- 51 kilometres (32 mi)
- 52 kilometres (32 mi)
- 53 kilometres (33 mi)
- 54 kilometres (34 mi)
- 55 kilometres (34 mi)
- 56 kilometres (35 mi)
- 57 kilometres (35 mi)
- 58 kilometres (36 mi)
- 59 kilometres (37 mi)
- 60 kilometres (37 mi)
- 61 kilometres (38 mi)
- 62 kilometres (39 mi)
- 63 kilometres (39 mi)
- 64 kilometres (40 mi)
- 65 kilometres (40 mi)
- 66 kilometres (41 mi)
- 67 kilometres (42 mi)
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- 68 kilometres (42 mi)
- 69 kilometres (43 mi)
- 70 kilometres (43 mi)
- 71 kilometres (44 mi)
- 72 kilometres (45 mi)
- 73 kilometres (45 mi)
- 74 kilometres (46 mi)
- 75 kilometres (47 mi)
- 76 kilometres (47 mi)
- 77 kilometres (48 mi)
- 78 kilometres (48 mi)
- 79 kilometres (49 mi)
- 80 kilometres (50 mi)
- 81 kilometres (50 mi)
- 82 kilometres (51 mi)
- 83 kilometres (52 mi)
- 84 kilometres (52 mi)
- 85 kilometres (53 mi)
- 86 kilometres (53 mi)
- 87 kilometres (54 mi)
- 88 kilometres (55 mi)
- 89 kilometres (55 mi)
- 90 kilometres (56 mi)
- 91 kilometres (57 mi)
- 92 kilometres (57 mi)
- 93 kilometres (58 mi)
- 94 kilometres (58 mi)
- 95 kilometres (59 mi)
- 96 kilometres (60 mi)
- 97 kilometres (60 mi)
- 98 kilometres (61 mi)
- 99 kilometres (62 mi)
- 100 kilometres (62 mi)
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The above table includes the non-breaking spaces (" ") to ensure smarter typesetting whenever lines wrap.
- [ This essay is a quick draft to be expanded later. ]
