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| {{moss|Here you'll find a fairly complete guide to using wikitext at Tardis. Unlike [[help:Wiki markup|the standard FANDOM help page on the subject]], this one gives examples relevant to editing here at Tardis.}}
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| {{shortcut|T:MARK}}'''Wikitext''' is the standard "language" for editing pages at Tardis, and, more broadly, across the FANDOM network. It's designed to be as simple as possible so that an article may be quickly typed ''and'' styled without having to take a break to type out long HTML codes. The goal is to make it as easy as possible to channel your thoughts into writing the perfect article (or even a not-so-perfect one).
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| == Text formatting ==
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| Creating italicized or bold text is the simplest rule — simply use the apostrophe character in groups of two or three to create the style. (Be sure to use the "straight" apostrophe and not the curved "smart quote" characters used in some text editors and word processors!)
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| | '''''italicized and bold text'''''
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| To create a tabbed list or a block of text using a monospace font, start the line with a space. (Be sure not to make the line too long, or it will stretch the page horizontally!) Text can also be indented using the colon character.
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| == Lists ==
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| Both unordered and numbered lists are simple to create as well: simply use the asterisk or hash characters at the beginning of a line to create the entry. To create nested lists, simply add an extra asterisk or hash to the front of the line. You can even mix and match the kinds of list in a single group!
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| | <tt><nowiki>; term : definition</nowiki></tt>
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| == Links and URLs ==
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| {{sc|T:URL}}
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| In a wiki, it's important to help build the web by creating links to other articles in every appropriate context. Use the following techniques to create "free links" to other Tardis articles:
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| | <tt><nowiki>[[TARDIS information system]]</nowiki></tt>
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| | [[Tardis:Policies and Guidelines|Policies and Guidelines]]
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| You can also make external links to other websites using the following formatting rules:
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| | <tt><nowiki>[[Wikipedia:Doctor Who]]</nowiki></tt>
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| === The "pipe trick" ===
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| One of the most helpful shortcuts one can learn in linking to articles is the so-called "pipe trick". By placing a pipe (|) after certain strings of text, one can eliminate the need to type huge amounts of replacement text. For example, if the name of an episode of ''[[Doctor Who (TV series)|Doctor Who]]'' is shared with a person, place or thing in the [[Doctor Who universe|DWU]], then it will be "disambiguated" with the parenthetical "(TV story)". [[Castrovalva]] refers to the city, whereas [[Castrovalva (TV story)]] links to the page about the episode. Generally, when writing a sentence about the TV story, one doesn't want "(TV story)" to appear in the body of text. To get rid of it, one must enter some replacement text separated by the full article name by a pipe (|}. The long way of doing that is:
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| | <nowiki>[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]</nowiki>|| Gets rid of '''(TV story)''' the long way||[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]
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| | <nowiki>[[Castrovalva (TV story)|]]</nowiki>||The short-cut for the above||[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]
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| | <nowiki>[[Tardis:Manual of Style|Manual of Style]]</nowiki>||The long way to get rid of '''''Namespace:'''''|| [[Tardis:Manual of Style|Manual of Style]]
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| | <nowiki>[[Tardis:Manual of Style|]]</nowiki>||The short-cut for the above|| [[Tardis:Manual of Style|Manual of Style]]
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| | <nowiki>''[[wikipedia:Life on Mars (TV series)|Life on Mars]]''</nowiki>||The long way to link to a Wikipedia article|| ''[[wikipedia:Life on Mars (TV series)|Life on Mars]]''
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| | <nowiki>''[[wikipedia:Life on Mars (TV series)|]]''</nowiki>||Pipe trick simultaneously truncates the back and front of the string||''[[wikipedia:Life on Mars (TV series)|Life on Mars]]''
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| | <nowiki>[[w:c:muppet:Kermit the Frog|Kermit]]</nowiki> || Links to an article on another wiki (see Interwiki section)|| [[w:c:muppet:Kermit the Frog|Kermit]]
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| | <nowiki>[[w:c:muppet:Kermit the Frog|]]</nowiki>|| Pipe trick fails|| [[w:c:muppet:Kermit the Frog|c:muppet:Kermit the Frog]]
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| Note that the pipe trick won't be detectable if you edit this page and look at how this chart is set up. It actually converts what you type into the long form, after you press "save page".
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| ==== When you might not want to do the pipe trick ====
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| If the actual name of a thing includes a parenthetical, you wouldn't want to do a pipetrick. For instance, the show ''Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)'', which actually has several ''Doctor Who'' cast and crew connections, wouldn't be a good candidate for a pipe trick, because it would resolve to just ''Randall & Hopkirk'', which isn't the full name of the show. So to get a proper Wikipedia link, you have to go the long way: '''<nowiki>[[wikipedia:Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)|Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)]]</nowiki>'''.
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| ==== When the pipe trick doesn't work ====
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| There are instances when the pipe trick doesn't work, and you have to revert to the "long way". The most common area in which it fails is when trying to make a link within a '''<nowiki><ref></nowiki>''' tag. The other major area is when placed within using a variable within a parser function. This last case is really of concern only to advanced users.
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| === The "slash trick" ===
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| There are some pages here which have a number of [[T:SUBPAGE|subpages]]. A subpage is a page that branches off of the page one is currently viewing. If this page had a subpage about slash tricks, it would be in the format of [[Help:Wiki markup/Slash trick]]. This syntax, however, is how one would link to the subpage from any other page on the wiki. '''On this page only''' the same link could be generated by typing
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| When entered '''on this page''', the preceding slash stands in for [[Help:Wiki markup]]. However, the result of typing in <nowiki>[[/Slash trick]]</nowiki> is the rather ugly [[/Slash trick]], that includes the preceding slash. If one wanted to create a link that appeared '''on this page''' as just [[Slash trick]], one could type:
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| However, this can be simplified even further by typing:
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| This eliminates the preceding slash.
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| ==== When you might not want to do the slash trick ====
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| Generally, getting rid of preceding slashes is a great idea. But there are occasionally times when the preceding slash might need to be retained. A good example is [[Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes]] where the preceding slashes emphasize to the reader that a subpage was being linked to, rather than a page in the main article space with the same name.
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| A suggested guideline is that if the subpage has the same name as a proper article in mainspace, retain the slash for clarity. Thus [[/The Chase]] versus [[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]].
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| === Interwiki link ===
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| {{sc|T:INTERWIKI}}
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| There are times when one might wish to link to another wiki. For example, if one wanted to link to [[Timothy Dalton]]'s page on [[w:c:jamesbond:Main Page|the James Bond Wiki]], one would use the following syntax:
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| Note that the pipe trick discussed above won't work as well on interwiki links because there are too many preceding colons. A pipe trick does this to an interwiki link: [[w:c:jamesbond:Timothy Dalton|c:jamesbond:Timothy Dalton]], which is close, but not really close enough. Thus, to make a "clean" link to an article on another link, one has to type out the whole thing, with replacement text, as shown immediately above.
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| ===== Non-English language link =====
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| A specialized form of the interwiki link is one in which you wish to direct users to the same page on one of our sister non-English ''Doctor Who'' wikis. This type of link does not create an in-line link — that is, one you can see within the body of the text of an article — but rather makes a link in the "Languages" tab in the sidebar. Such links are made by use of a two-letter language code. For example, if you wanted to create a link to the French language article on [[TARDIS]], you would type:
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| Currently, we have the ability to link to many foreign language Wikis, including, but not limited to: French (fr), Russian (ru), Bulgarian (bg), German (de) and Dutch (nl). Note that there must be a corresponding article on the target website for the link to be created successfully. Since use of this particular kind of interwiki link ''always'' produces a golden link, care must be exercised in its use, especially because it is not likely that an article on a non-English wiki will have the exact same name as its English counterpart. For instance, there are currently no pages at [[TARDIS]] for the Bulgarian, German, and Dutch wiki; typing <nowiki>[[bg:TARDIS]]</nowiki> links to a create page. Multilingual editors will be required to make these kind of links most successfully.
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| ==== How to figure out the name of a wiki ====
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| The real trick in performing interwiki links is knowing what is the true name of the wiki to which one is linking. For instance, we call ourselves "Tardis Data Core", but our ''true'' name is "tardis". Links to our article about Matt Smith from other wikis would be:
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| The key to finding the true name is to look at the URL address in one's browser window. The name is almost always the word which precedes the word "wikia". The URL to the ''Doctor Who'' page at Simpsons Wiki is http://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Doctor_Who. This is the usual format for a FANDOM wiki. Thus: [[w:c:simpsons:Doctor Who]] is how you link to that page from within an article here at our wiki. Again, to clean it up a bit, you might type something like <nowiki>[[w:c:simpsons:Doctor Who|Doctor Who on ''The Simpsons'']]</nowiki>. This syntax will work in most cases. For instance, it works for linkage to all of our sister sites, thus:
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| * [[w:c:whospecialfeatures:Category:Easter Egg]] links to the Easter Egg category at our sister site, Doctor Who Special Features Index
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| * [[w:c:doctor-who-collectors:Items released in 1994]] links to all DW merchandise released in 1994 at our sister site, the Doctor Who Collectors Wiki
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| * [[w:c:dwexpanded:Planet Skaro Audios]] links to the fan-made ''Planet Skaro Audios'' at our sister site, Doctor Who Expanded Wiki
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| * [[w:c:doctorwhofanon:Phoenix (Series 5)]] links to a fan-imagined series 5 which would have starred [[David Tennant]] instead of [[Matt Smith]] at our sister site, Doctor Who Fanon
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| Sometimes, a wiki will have multiple domains, and each of these will work. A good example is, well, ''us''. We have a ton of different ways besides [[w:c:tardis]] to link to our articles from other wikis. Among them are: [[w:c:dw]], [[w:c:who]], and [[w:c:doctorwho]].
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| But let's look at [[w:c:memoryalpha:Main Page|Memory Alpha, the canon Star Trek Wiki]]. The actual URL of its ''Doctor Who'' page is: http://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Doctor_Who. You can use [[w:c:memory-alpha:Doctor Who]] to get there, but you can also use the ''un-hyphenated'' [[w:c:memoryalpha:Doctor Who]].
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| ==== Beware the false golden link ====
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| {{sc|T:FALSE golden}}
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| Note that interwiki linking, whether by using a special prefix like <nowiki>[[wikipedia:articlename]] or the standard [[w:c:wikiname:articlename]] syntax</nowiki>, almost '''always''' produces a golden link. You must, therefore, go back and click the link you've made to ensure that it actually links properly. Just to illustrate, here are some obviously ridiculous page names that nevertheless appear to be valid links:
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| * [[w:c:memoryalpha:Logic insists that the Eighth Doctor was half-Vulcan]]
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| * [[w:c:ICompletelyMadeThisWikiNameUp:but I still get a golden link]]
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| == Sections ==
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| === The usual way ===
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| If an article is long enough, you can divide the page into different sections. Tardis will automatically generate a table of contents based on the content for all articles with more than three sections.
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| You can also create a horizontal divider by using four dashes in a row.
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| === Another approach to headers ===
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| The above method doesn't just generate a header. It also automatically creates a little edit link beside the header, allowing the user to edit just that section. But there are times when one may wish to have a sectional header that isn't editable. This is particularly true in templates which generate a lot of text that need to be sectionalized for greater understanding. To achieve section heads which don't produce an edit link, use the following simple code:
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| == Images and other media ==
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| :'''See:''' [[Help:Image markup]]
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| == Tables ==
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| :'''See:''' [[Tardis:Tables]]
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| == Mathematical formulae ==
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| :'''See:''' [[Help:Math]]
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| == Templates ==
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| A template is a pre-defined bit of coding that places the same text across multiple pages. It can be as simple as a little system message, such as [[:Template:Current]] to a fairly complicated bit of coding that automatically calculates dates based upon the name of an article, like [[:Template:Timeline]].
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| One of the types of template you will most come into contact with here on tardis is the "infobox" template. These save you a great deal of repetitive typing of similar information, such as is found on television story or novel pages. Just go to the [[:category:templates|master template category page]] and scan down the list for the ones you need. Put <nowiki>{{template}}</nowiki> in your edit, replacing "template" with the name of the specific one you are using, such "Infobox CD". For infoboxes, you will need to fill in the variables accepted by the template, such as director, writer, or broadcast date.
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| The actual writing of templates is a complicated subject, beyond the scope of this article.
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| :'''See also:''' [[Help:Template]]
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| === Magic words ===
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| Beyond the templates that we have created are templates that are inherent in the MediaWiki software. These are not fully listed anywhere on this wiki, and do not appear in [[:Category:Templates]]. A good place to start one's understanding of these type of templates is at [[Wikipedia:Help:Magic words]].
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| They are called "magic" because they do things with one simple word that conceals rather a lot of complicated coding. Most editors of wikis, even those very experienced with template coding, don't really understand the underlying code that makes them work. Hence, as was once remarked in ''[[Battlefield (TV story)|Battlefield]]'', any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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| Magic words include things like <nowiki>{{PAGENAME}}</nowiki>, which returns the name of the page you're on; <nowiki>{{CURRENTDAY}}</nowiki>, which tells you the current day; <nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki>, which strips a page of its table of contents; <nowiki>{{#ifeq|}}</nowiki>, which compares two strings, and then takes action depending on whether they match; and <nowiki>{{DEFAULTSORT}}</nowiki>, which automatically forces an article to sort in a category in a certain way.
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| If you'd like more details, please see [[Help:Magic words]].
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| == Suppressing markup ==
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| It's also possible to tell MediaWiki to ''ignore'' any of the above rules using a simple tag:
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