Bureaucrat, administrator, widgeteditor
146,870
edits
Changes
no edit summary
Of course you are advised to use the tool bar just above the window in Edit mode, and to dig into the various user's manuals. But some codes are not easy to find or to remember. They will be found here. Consult also the Mediawiki help page about [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting formatting].
==Text formatting = Elements of syntax that you may wish to copy in a word processor for daily use ===*vertical bar: |
*To align a text at the center:
*To include a text in Edit mode, that you don't want to see in the Read version :
<nowiki><!-- Note : This text is a comment that will not appear --></nowiki>
You can change the color and the size. 3 is big, 2 is medium, and 1 is small.
<nowiki><font color=red size=3>text</font></nowiki> will give
<font color=red size=3>text size=3</font>
<nowiki><font color=green size=2>text size=2</font></nowiki> will give
<font color=green size=2>text size=2</font>
<nowiki><font color=blue size=1>text size=1</font></nowiki> will give
<font color=blue size=1>text size=1</font>
I ignore why 1 is not the size of ordinary text.
If you want to force a line break, simply type <nowiki><br></nowiki>. This is the case when you want the authors' names in the taxobox to be down the scientific name.
Another syntax says size=60%. I don't know how it works.
To put a text in small capitals :
<nowiki>{{smallcaps|Text}}</nowiki> will give {{Smallcaps|Text}}
== Categories ==
In that case, parameters can be written in any order, but it is less confusing when you put them in the right order and at different lines.
==Pages with templates = Links = Complex templates are difficult to use. To make the work easier, we chosed to associate a page template with an example page (called "New..."), which already contains the link to the template with the names of parameters to be documented, and additional common features not included in the template. You can then simply copy and paste the example page in order to create a new page. *To create a genus page, paste the following page: [[New genus seed plant]] *To create a family page, paste the following page: [[New family seed plant]] *To create a species page, paste the following page [[New species seed plant]] and delete any necessary text (after :). Additional example pages for other cases will be created in time. == Links ==
The format for an internal link to the same linguistic version is :
<nowiki>[[page name#section name|displayed text]]</nowiki>
A table of contents (TOC) is created automatically as soon as a page contains at least four sections. It is placed just before the title of the first section.
NB. __ represents two underscores.
== Other elements ==
Elements of syntax that you may wish to copy in a word processor for daily use
*To create a genus page, paste the following pagevertical bar: [[New genus seed plant]]|
=== Tricks ===