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DISPLAYTITLE could be used more often at this wiki than it is. For instance, the title of articles at the top of the page could be made to be italicized in the case of book titles, for instance. However, there is no consensus on this, as yet. One article that does use DISPLAYTITLE is [[IPod]], in order to make it properly render as having a lower-case "i" a the beginning of the word [[iPod]]. DISPLAYTITLE is a rather finicky bit of code, however, and will only accept certain changes to the title. For instance, it happily accepts iPod, but balks | DISPLAYTITLE could be used more often at this wiki than it is. For instance, the title of articles at the top of the page could be made to be italicized in the case of book titles, for instance. However, there is no consensus on this, as yet. One article that does use DISPLAYTITLE is [[IPod]], in order to make it properly render as having a lower-case "i" a the beginning of the word [[iPod]]. DISPLAYTITLE is a rather finicky bit of code, however, and will only accept certain changes to the title. For instance, it happily accepts iPod, but balks at iPOd. | ||
DEFAULTSORT is a particularly important magic word to understand, as it should be placed on every page you create, if the title of that page is a person's name, or an article that begins with an article, such as "a", "an" or "the". | DEFAULTSORT is a particularly important magic word to understand, as it should be placed on every page you create, if the title of that page is a person's name, or an article that begins with an article, such as "a", "an" or "the". | ||
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This will automatically sort the article alphabetically in whatever categories it is placed into. | This will automatically sort the article alphabetically in whatever categories it is placed into. | ||
=== Parser functions === | === Parser functions === | ||
Parser functions are magic words that get the wiki software to perform an action upon a string (that is a set of letters, numbers and/or symbols) in order to return a result. Explaining all their possible functions is well beyond this scope of this help page. | Parser functions are magic words that get the wiki software to perform an action upon a string (that is a set of letters, numbers and/or symbols) in order to return a result. Explaining all their possible functions is well beyond this scope of this help page. | ||
