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| ; [[Xenharmonic Wiki:Conventions|Conventions]]: a few thoughts about a few conventions currently in use | | ; [[Xenharmonic Wiki:Conventions|Conventions]]: a few thoughts about a few conventions currently in use |
| | ; [[Help:Wiki help|Wiki help]]: how to edit pages, format tables, etc. |
| ; [[Help:How to Get Your Xenwiki Account|How to Get Your Xenwiki Account]]: an account is necessary to edit articles, it provides also a user talk page | | ; [[Help:How to Get Your Xenwiki Account|How to Get Your Xenwiki Account]]: an account is necessary to edit articles, it provides also a user talk page |
| ; Start your [[Help:User pages|user page]] (was before [[Editor yourName]]): say a few words about you as a wiki editor (user pages also serve as the temporary "host" (root) for subpages where complicated edits are carried out) | | ; Start your [[Help:User pages|user page]] (was before [[Editor yourName]]): say a few words about you as a wiki editor (user pages also serve as the temporary "host" (root) for subpages where complicated edits are carried out) |
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| If you have any (seemingly) unsolvable problem, look or ask for a solution [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|on the talk page]], Thanks :-) | | If you have any (seemingly) unsolvable problem, look or ask for a solution [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|on the talk page]], Thanks :-) |
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| Wikis should be easy to edit, so most text you add or change will appear as you expect it. But you can do more if you want.
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| [https://wikiindex.org/Xenharmonic_Wiki This wiki] is currently in [https://wikiindex.org/Category:LoginToEdit login-to-edit mode] after the move from [[Wikispaces]] to MediaWiki-based installation (the edit mode may change again some time). For editing or adding information to the wiki, you have to join the wiki. See [[How to Get Your Xenwiki Account]] for more!
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| == Using links ==
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| What you always have dreamed of (for your paper notes) - in a wiki it becomes true: fast links!
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| If you enclose a word in double brackets (like <code><nowiki>[[word]]</nowiki></code>), you get an internal link, hopefully to an already existing page - if not, it appears red, and you just created the opportunity for your co-authors to add the details. If you want a text differing from the link target, you can place it after a pipe symbol: <code><nowiki>[[word|different text]]</nowiki></code>.
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| For external links, simply place the URL into the text, certain protocols (http, https, mailto) will be automatically transformed into links. For alternate text, use single brackets, start with the URL and after a space enter the title, like so <code><nowiki>[http://acid3.acidtests.org the Acid3 test]</nowiki></code> which renders to [http://acid3.acidtests.org the Acid3 test].
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| === Link text ===
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| ''tbd''
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| The link text should relate to the link target, don't use "[[help:here-links|here]]".
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| === Redirects ===
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| There are 3 types of redirects: soft redirect, regular redirect and hard redirect.
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| A "soft redirect" or "smart redirect" is just an ordinary page with the text "See XYZ.", where XYZ is a link to the target of the smart redirect. A smart redirect should not point to another smart redirect - if you see this you should fix it by shortcutting past the second one and making the first redirect point directly to the ultimate target.
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| A regular redirect is performed by <code><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Page title]]</nowiki></code>. A double redirect should be fixed by the same method as above, or by replacing it with a hard redirect. Regular redirects did not exist in <code>wikispaces</code>. This kind of redirect displays a small information message when it was used to display the current page.
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| Real or "hard" redirects directly go to the target page without a notice of redirect. Therefore, they should only be used in the case of simple misspellings or alternate spellings. The rule is that if anyone might ever want to flesh the redirect out into its own article, it should not be a hard redirect. Hard redirects can be chained with no problem, which is why they're still appropriate to use for misspellings. The code for a hard redirect in MediaWiki is <code><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[:en:Page title]]</nowiki></code>. Hard redirects worked somewhat differently in <code>wikispaces</code>; only admins could create or change them, and they could not redirect to a section.
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| * http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/tuning/conversations/topics/101227 - redirects were discussed on the [[tuning_list|tuning list]] in the [[Wikispaces]] era
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| * [[:Category:soft redirect|list of pages tagged as soft redirect]] - pages that contain only see <tt>[[</tt><nowiki>''some other page''</nowiki><tt>]]</tt> (be cautious with other tags on these)
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| * [[:Category:smart redirect|list of pages tagged as smart redirect]] - pages that have more information (a small definition, classification etc.)
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| == Text formatting ==
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| === Emphasis ===
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| Some typographic markup can easy be added by including the phrase in doubled <code>''</code> or tripled <code>'''</code> (apostrophe chars):
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| * ''italic'' using <nowiki>''italic''</nowiki>
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| * '''bold''' using <nowiki>'''bold'''</nowiki>
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| * '''''bold italic''''' using <nowiki>'''''bold italic'''''</nowiki>
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| === Lists ===
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| You can create lists with one of the [[list model]]s:
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| * first level
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| ** second level
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| ** second level
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| * first level
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| # first level
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| ## second level
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| ## second level
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| # first level
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| ...and you can of course mix both, if you know what you're doing ;)
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| === Tables ===
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| You can add tables to wiki pages:
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| ! what you write
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| <nowiki>
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| ! column A
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| ! column B
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| ! what you get
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| ==== Adjusting Text Alignment ====
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| The table cells are left aligned by default, the heading cells are center aligned. You may change this via inline CSS style definitions:
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| | style="text-align:center;" | centered text
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| | place <code><nowiki>style="text-align:center;" |</nowiki></code> after the opening pipe
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| | style="text-align:right;" | right aligned
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| | place <code><nowiki>style="text-align:center;" |</nowiki></code> after the opening pipe
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| ! headline style
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| | exclamation mark instead of the pipe symbol starts the cell
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| If you want to override the default text alignment for all cells, place the inline CSS (for example <code>style="text-align:center;"</code>) directly at the beginning of the table, right after the <code>class="wikitable"</code> statement.
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| ==== External helper tools ====
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| If you have to construct really complex tables with colspans and rowspans, you may use this online table generator:
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| [http://www.tablesgenerator.com/mediawiki_tables Generate tables in MediaWiki format - TablesGenerator.com]
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| For example, this wiki markup
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| === Images ===
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| Inserting a JPEG or PNG image is pretty straightforward - when using the visual page editor click the "File" button and upload the image. Or in Wikitext, use <code><nowiki>[[image:filename]]</nowiki></code>. SVG images are possible but require a bit more work; see [[SVG_images_on_wiki_pages|SVG images on wiki pages]] for details.
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| === Maths formulas ===
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| ...can be used [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula like in the Wikipedia]: start it with <code><nowiki><math></nowiki></code> and end it with <code><nowiki></math></nowiki></code>. Take care: using the math tags will break paragraphs. See for example
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| Here is a browser-based formula editor that may be helpful: http://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php
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| === Table of contents ===
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| Place <code><nowiki>__TOC__</nowiki></code> where you wish to place the table of contents, mostly this will be at the top of the page.
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| == Social aspects ==
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| In this wiki, you can use talk pages and user talk pages.
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| If you want to discuss the wiki itself, do it on the page [[wikifuture]].
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| === Categories ===
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| Categories all serve different purposes: sometimes they say what something is or the context in which it belongs ([[:Category:edo]], [[:Category:interval]]). Sometimes they are used for annotation purposes ([[:Category:todo:reduce mathslang]]), etc. All these forms have in common is that they can combine wiki pages in a way that is independent of their authors.
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| A category may have its own content (and category)
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| :''see [https://en.xen.wiki/w/Special:AllPages?from=&to=&namespace=14 Pages in the namespace '''Category''']''
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| :''see [[Special:WantedCategories]]''
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| * [[:Category:todo:add_definition|todo:add definition]] - here a term needs to be defined
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| * [[:Category:Todo]] - category of categories that flag articles
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| === Discussion ===
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| Discussion pages are provided to each content page. Please keep in mind that the email notification to people who are observing the page cannot be taken back!
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| Sometimes you will wait forever for a reply because nobody monitors the page or topic. In this case you should find out who is most familiar with the topic and ask that person directly. You can check the history of pages for its authors. Another approach is to ask questions on further media, examples are listed on the page [[GeneralDiscussion]].
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| == Links ==
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| * [[Help:Help]]
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| * [[Conventions]]
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| [[Category:help]]
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| [[Category:syntax]]
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| [[Category:wiki help]]
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| [[Category:help]] | | [[Category:help]] |