User:Bennoro/Sandbox

This is the actual "Sandbox" editing experiment page...

Above and below are two ways to put references into the text (I think this way is preferred by Wikipedia, but not me).

URL for best footnote formatting help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Footnotes note hidden title...

And the official Wikipedia Footnote Formatting page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Footnote_referencing

Below are ways to link to Wikipedia articles and to a Wiktionary definition:

Used open interest to link a phrase to the definition of the same phrase in the Wiktionary.

Used Commodity Futures Trading Commission to link the phrase to the Wikipedia article of exactly the same name.

Used futures markets to link "futures markets" (in text) to the "futures exchange" page in Wikipedia.

Or link to Wikipedia with a dot or other symbol or option, instead of using the double bracket link method: ·

Below are five ways to format URL's & links to them:

U.S. CFTC CoT page: www.cftc.gov/marketreports/commitmentsoftraders/cot_about.html The above creates a title, a spelled-out URL, and a link to the URL.

Formatting this way: http://www.cftc.gov/marketreports/commitmentsoftraders/cot_about.html creates the link in the spelled-out URL (needs "http") (max indent "space" is 30).

Formatting this way creates the link only:

Cool way to create a link to a blue description: Good Juggling Site

Note that all link methods result in the "box & arrow" link...

Taken from the Allende article: How to format full size image without thumbnailing. Note that there doesn't seem to be a way of preventing the first line of text from lining up with the top of the image frame (e.g. the text beginning a couple of lines above the frame). I tried everything, but leaves a space...:

Stones were scattered over a huge area – one of the largest meteorite strewnfields known. This strewnfield measures approximately 8 by 50 kilometers. The region is desert, mostly flat, with sparse to moderate low vegetation. Hundreds of meteorites were collected shortly after the fall. More than 2 tons of specimens were then collected over a period of more than 25 years. Even today, almost 40 years later, they are still occasionally being found. At the present time Allende is still the only carbonaceous chondrite commonly available to collectors. Stones were scattered over a huge area – one of the largest meteorite strewnfields known. This strewnfield measures approximately 8 by 50 kilometers. The region is desert, mostly flat, with sparse to moderate low vegetation. Hundreds of meteorites were collected shortly after the fall. More than 2 tons of specimens were then collected over a period of more than 25 years. Even today, almost 40 years later, they are still occasionally being found. At the present time Allende is still the only carbonaceous chondrite commonly available to collectors.

Note also: 1) to load image, first format for the image. When the page is then previewed, the filename shows up in a small frame, in brown, as a link.  If the link is clicked it opens an upload page, making it easy.  When the page is again opened, the image can be clicked to take you to the page it's saved on.  In this case: http:// upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Allende_Strewnfield _after_Twelker_%26Norton.jpg.  Note that I made an error in the filename - left out the under before "Norton."  The only way to fix this is to go to the image page, edit the page, delete the image, return to the Sandbox edit page, reupload the image with the correct filename.  Not even sure this will work... 2) If half the above text (next to the image - note that it's repeated) is removed, then the image overlaps into the next section, covering up the line between sections (the line below "References").

Want help and suggested formatting for side-by-side images and other more complex image display?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Images_and_other_uploaded_files

How about displaying two thumbs on the right, side-by-side? Note that a caption can be added, and can include a link...

Stones were scattered over a huge area – one of the largest meteorite strewnfields known. This strewnfield measures approximately 8 by 50 kilometers. The region is desert, mostly flat, with sparse to moderate low vegetation. Hundreds of meteorites were collected shortly after the fall. More than 2 tons of specimens were then collected over a period of more than 25 years. Even today, almost 40 years later, they are still occasionally being found.

To Add Category to the (almost totally useless) list of categories:

This is odd - counterintuitive as the Help article says: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization#How_to_create_subcategories -  good page, which see...

You first categorize the article itself by adding the category tag to the lowest line in the article: e.g. doublebracket Category:Roses doublebracket" This category does not exist, but OK for now. Save the page then click on the link to the "Category Roses" page at the very bottom of the article. Edit the page to add: doublebracket Category:parent_category_name doublebracket, e.g. doublebracket Category:Flowers doublebracket The edits will get tied together automatically. There is now a new category, Roses, in the old category Flowers!

One place to look at all the categories: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorical_index

Experiment for Allende article March '08:

See CV group under Carbonaceous chondrites. As of the beginning of 2008, approximately 1200 publications that contain the name Allende in the title have been indexed in online databases, (see http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html) and nearly 1000 more contain data on this meteorite (see http://www.metbase.de/home.html).