Quick guide to editing translatewiki.net
| Works on any wiki based on the MediaWiki software and with the Translate extension enabled | ||
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| Description | You type | You get |
| Mark a message as outdated manually. | !!FUZZY!!rest of message follows | !!FUZZY!!rest of message follows |
- on translated pages, fuzzy messages are shown in spans with a light pink background and the page header displays an additional notice.
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Outdated translations are marked like this.
rest of message follows | |
| Works on translatewiki.net | ||
| Description | You type | You get |
| Link to a message in your language preference
- and display message text.
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{{msg-fud|Message}} | Message ("Message")
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| Link to a message in your language preference
- and do not display message text.
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{{msg-fud|message|notext=1}} | Message |
| Display language names and codes
- language autonym.
- code of interface language.
- name in interface language.
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{{#language:de}} (works on all wikis now) |
Deutsch |
| Change to user interface language version of a page
- by adding ?uselang=en to URL in an address bar or link
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[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/?uselang={{USERLANGUAGE}} link to user interface version, defaults to English] | link to user interface version, defaults to English |
| Works on any wiki based on the MediaWiki software | ||
| Description | You type | You get |
| Italic text | ''italic'' | italic |
| Bold text | '''bold''' | bold |
| Bold and italic text | '''''bold & italic''''' | bold & italic |
| Link to another translatewiki.net page |
[[Name of page]] |
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| Link to an external website
- numbered link.
- kink with label.
- link using interwiki table.
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[http://mediawiki.org] |
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| Change language version of a page
- by adding ?uselang=xx to URL in an address bar or link
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[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/?uselang=de link to German version] | link to German version |
| View interface message keys of a page
- by adding ?uselang=qqx to URL in an address bar or link
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[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Home?uselang=qqx click to view] | click to view |
| Add an image (an alternative text is strongly encouraged).
- as a thumbnail image floating along the right margin, with the
thumb option (the descriptive caption is strongly recommended for thumbnails; the default rendered width is 220px but adjustable in user preferences, and can be adjusted according to this user preference with the upright option taking a default value of 0.75, suitable for images with 3x4 size ratio in portrait orientation but also adjustable to other factors).- otherwise inline (suitable for small images, with an explicit height in pixels for small icons in text).
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[[File:Wiki.png|thumb|upright=0.25|alt=Wiki logo|Caption below.]] |
 This |
| Add a page to a category
- categories should be placed at the end of pages.
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[[Category:Category name]] | The category name will display in a bar at the bottom when the page is previewed or saved. |
| Works on any wiki based on the MediaWiki software, only at the beginning of lines | ||
| Description | You type | You get |
| Redirect to another page
- redirects must be placed at the start of the first line.
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#REDIRECT [[Target page]] |  Target page
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| Redirect to a section of another page
- redirects must be placed at the start of the first line.
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#REDIRECT [[Target page#anchorName]] | Target page#anchorName
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| Section headings
- a Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article.
- do not use =Level 1=; it is reserved for page titles.
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== Level 2 == |
Level 2Level 3Level 4Level 5Level 6 |
| Bulleted list |
* One |
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| Numbered list |
# One |
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| Definition list |
; Term One |
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See also
- For a general guide to editing pages on a wiki based on the MediaWiki software, see mw:Help:Editing pages