User:Lezelmaz/sandbox/myStyleGuide



Hello, world! myStyleGuide is a starter page within the User sandbox subpage. It is not an article, draft, or neutral, but a learning while working page to sharpen Wikipedia editing skills. It is a partial guide, simply a breadcrumb trail and cheatsheet to document the learning adventure.

Initially, the focus is on layout and page design. The purpose is to store discreet wikitext blocks for use as template snippets and document informal, personally made snippet blocks based on mastery of learned Wikimedia markup. Sources are almost exclusively from established Wikipedia articles and MediaWiki guides, help pages, and how-to's, supplemented with reliable sources, such as W3C and WHATWG. The examples listed capture the method I utilized for a suitable outcome.

Often there is an array of methods available to achieve specific formatting of any element in a wiki page. The literature, guides, help pages, et al., is vast and overwhelming as attempts to hone in on a desired treatment. As a "newbie" editor, I languished for years due to technical roadblocks, making minor edits and updates here and there. Basic editing skills such as citing sources; making inline notes; adding a new section; updating old data requires some skill or know-how to search the morass of documentation. Even using one's User page or sandbox is challenging in the opposite extreme: how to populate a blank page? On top, an editor must consider policies on content and tone or heated editing wars.

This page is here to push past these hurdles. Linkbacks litter lists and tables and point to valuable sources with more thorough documentation and exhaustive guides.

CSS Snippets
Input: Indenting 50px causes Output: Indenting 50px causesthis amount of inline whitespace.
 * 1) Pad template   -  Generally, CSS padding is the internal space between an element's content and its border. The element's margin is the external space wrapped outside its border. On Wikipedia   is a wikitext solution for creating inline whitespace.

Input:  Output:  This line of text will turn red.
 * 1) Span tag   - On Wikipedia, HTML   elements are used to group logically related text, which can have properties applied.


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Wikipedia Edit-Ed series

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 * 2) item
 * 3) item

Standouts list
Extraordinary Wikipedia tools, tips, pages, people, et al.

Tools & Tips

 * 1)  Missing Manual/Formatting - Missing Manual is an independent resource for learning how to edit wikipedia pages. This chapter (from "Part III Formatting and Illustrating") focuses on article sections and tables of contents. While it doesn't delve too deeply into formatting "how-tos" from wiki markup POV, it's a good introduction on what these sections should look in a "good article."
 * 2) Wiki cheat sheet - Short list of markup and tips.
 * 3)  Help:cascading style sheets - Help page for making use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) within context of wikitext.

From: The Good Article Archives — Wikipedia-ga

 * 1) Falafel
 * 2) Hypatia
 * 3) Florence_Pugh

User pages

 * 1) User page design center (landing page) - An inactive but still useful design hub for user pages.
 * 2) User page design center/Style - Style section (one link deeper from UPDC landing.)
 * 3) Figureskatingfan (user page) -
 * 4) Adam9007 (user page) - This one is dicey. User has been mischievous; has used aliases; also is apparently indefinitely blocked, and/or "retired" (status is unclear.) Nonetheless, Adam9007 has useful content (to "borrow" or as inspiration) on his user page; and intriguing wiki-conflicts (#Gossip.) Alias(es): Andrew07111712.

myStyleGuide Glossary
A glossary of terms commonly used on Wikipedia.


 * ''myStyleGuide Glossary is an individually maintained glossary for personal, educational purposes in the User namespace. It is different from the community-maintained Wikipedia Glossary.

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 * Ø
 * The character Ø has been used in edit summaries to mean a null edit, except that if you can see the edit summary, then it was a dummy edit instead of a null edit.


 * "Is not equal to". This usage comes from the relational operator in programming languages such as C and C++.
 * "Is not equal to". This usage comes from the relational operator in programming languages such as C and C++.

0–9

 * 0RR
 * Voluntary or imposed zero-revert rule. See Wikipedia:Revert only when necessary § Zero-revert rule.

A — E

 * Abcdise, ABCDise, Abcdize, ABCDize
 * Term sometimes used in edit summaries to indicate that the edit was to sort list or other items into alphabetical order.


 * Actionable : In featured content promotion discussions, all objections to promotion must be actionable – that is, it must be possible to make changes (or "actions") so the specified problem can be resolved. For example, objecting on the basis that the citations need improvement is actionable because it is possible to make improvements in this area: more and better citations can be added, the citation style and syntax can be improved, etc. An example of an unactionable objection is that the topic is too controversial; Wikipedia editors can do nothing to change how controversial the topic is.


 * Admin
 * Short for Administrator. A user with extra technical privileges for "custodial" work on Wikipedia – specifically, deleting and protecting pages, and blocking abusive users.


 * Babel
 * A babel is a user language template aiding multilingual communication by making it easier to contact someone who speaks a certain language.


 * en:, de:, es:, fr:, ja:, etc.
 * The English-, German-, Spanish-, French-, Japanese-, etc.-language Wikipedia. For a full list of codes, see List of ISO 639-1 codes. For a full list of Wikipedias, see List of Wikipedias -or- Meta-Wiki: List of Wikipedias.

F — J

 * Hatnote
 * A short note placed at the top of an article before the primary topic.


 * Huggle
 * A diff browser intended for dealing with vandalism and other unconstructive edits on Wikimedia projects, written in C++ using the Qt framework. It was originally developed in .NET Framework by, who is no longer active on this project.

K — O

 * Kat lorem ipsum
 * Cat ipsum dolor sit amet, sees bird in air, breaks into cage and attacks creature so mouse hide head under blanket so no one can see. Litter box is life sleep everywhere, but not in my bed for paw your face to wake you up in the morning yet poop on floor and watch human clean up. Annoy kitten brother with poking taco cat backwards spells taco cat but hiss and stare at nothing then run suddenly away and mouse and chew master's slippers.

P — T

 * Pact lorem ipsum
 * Hide at bottom of staircase to trip human bite the neighbor's bratty kid, for sit on human. Cat snacks sleep all day whilst slave is at work, play all night whilst slave is sleeping so lick face hiss at owner, pee a lot, and meow repeatedly scratch at fence purrrrrr eat muffins and poutine until owner comes back pet me pet me pet me pet me, bite, scratch, why are you

U — Z

 * Vandal
 * One who engages in significant amounts of vandalism. (Adjective: Vandalic)


 * Vandalbot
 * Some kind of bot being used for vandalism or spamming. Recognizable by the fact that one or a few IP-addresses make many similar clearly vandalistic edits in a short time. In the worst cases, these have created or vandalized hundreds of pages in several Wikipedias in only minutes. See also Meta-Wiki: Vandalbot.


 * Vandalism
 * Deliberate defacement of Wikipedia pages. This can be by deleting text or writing nonsense, bad language, etc. The term is sometimes improperly used to discredit the views of an opponent in edit wars. Vandalism can be reported at Administrator intervention against vandalism.