User:BjKa


 * Name
 * Björn Karlson
 * Job
 * Engineer
 * Location
 * Bavaria
 * Interests
 * Science
 * Languages
 * Philosophy
 * Music


 * Userpage on Commons
 * commons:User:BjKa


 * Citation Stuff
 * User:BjKa/Books

Howtos
Just my personal reference cheat sheet. The stuff I never remember when I need it, and which can be hard to dig out of the official Help pages.

Redirect

 *  #REDIRECT WalkThisWay 

Disambiguation

 * is generated by entering:


 * is generated by entering:
 * "Above all, do not pipe the link. Show the entire linked article title as is."
 * "Above all, do not pipe the link. Show the entire linked article title as is."

Wikisourcecodequoting

 *   Put it Here   
 * Now try and figure out the wikisource for that line without looking! :-)
 * This is probably way outdated. See next item for a modern template style:

Quoting larger blocks of Wiki-Markup
put it all here (colons for indention are optional, of course)
 * Then just

Displaying the   tag in these howtos

 * The tag will just render as text if there isn't an "open"    tag pending.
 * To show it after a    tag therefore requires to:


 * 1) suspend the "nowiki-state"
 * 2) put the   text
 * 3) resume the "nowiki-state"
 * Code:

Hidden Comment

 *  <! Now you see it - now you don't > 

Format-Fu

 *  Linktext1  Linktext2
 * <span style="white-space:nowrap;text-shadow:#fee72c 0em 0em 0.8em,gold -0.8em -0.8em 0.9em,#1D6B00 0.7em 0.7em 0.8em;color:#000000"> User-Name-Link ( ✉ )
 * Codes shamelessly stolen from the signatures of fellow users

Multicolumned list

 * <tt> • 2 </tt>

faked multicolumn

 * <tt> </tt>
 * * Some
 * * Bulleted
 * * List
 * <tt> </tt>

Boxes

 * <blockquote style="background-color:#E0E0E0; padding-left:0.8em; margin:0;">
 * <tt> <blockquote style="background-color:#E0E0E0; padding-left:0.8em; margin:0;"> </tt>
 * If you know a better way to transfer text blocks to a talkpage let me know!
 * <tt> </tt>


 * Honors Linebreaks! Yay!
 * (Can't use <tt>  </tt>)
 * (Can't use <tt>  </tt>)

Categories

 * WP-Policy
 * Categorization. tl;dr: FAQ/Categorization
 * Newly created Categories always have to be part of other Categories!


 * Linking to a Category
 * Just put a colon at the front of the link
 * --> Category:Siouan languages
 * Thanks to User:Kwamikagami for pointing this out!

Multiples
Using different pages of the same work in different citations

Geohack / Coord

 * "dim": viewing diameter (for a sane zoom level). Default in m
 * "dim": viewing diameter (for a sane zoom level). Default in m
 * "dim": viewing diameter (for a sane zoom level). Default in m
 * "dim": viewing diameter (for a sane zoom level). Default in m

Uploading an Image

 * File Upload Wizard
 * Or just add the object
 * <tt> Some Picture's Name.jpg </tt>
 * and follow the links.

Linking to Wikisource

 * <tt> ... </tt>

SUL-Info for User "BjKa"

 * http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/tools/sulinfo.php?username=BjKa&showinactivity=1&showblocks=1&showlocked=1

fight JPEG

 * * Category:Images with inappropriate JPEG compression
 * * Preparing_images_for_upload

Translate

 * * Full rules: Translation
 * * tl;dr: Template:Expand language

Drive-by tagging

 * Overview of available tags

Clarification needed

 * <tt> </tt>
 * See Please_clarify.
 * tl;dr:

Undated time references

 * Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch
 * = MOS:REALTIME
 * = MOS:REALTIME

Jargon



 * Articles in Wikipedia should be understandable to the widest possible audience.
 * For most articles, this means understandable to a general audience.
 * --WP:TECHNICAL


 * Leider gibts kein ordentliches Äquivalent zu de:WP:Oma...


 * Other aliases redirecting to Make technical articles understandable
 * * Understandability
 * * Too technical
 * * Write one level down

Space Double

 * So that italicized words and end-quotation-marks don't run into each other
 * Use <tt> </tt> instead of the "
 * See template:space_double, also for links to similar stuff

Old Rants
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