User:Lezelmaz/sandbox/myStyleGuide/diary

Hello, world! This is a month-to-month diary documenting personal Wiki-Ed progression. —EXPAND INTRO—

Templates (c)
Templates are a mess, as auto-applied in Wikipedia's editor.

Footnotes (c)
Footnotes, and all its subordinates are comprehensible to me (globally, as a concept), yet applying them to pages leave a lot of technical and conceptual holes (especially: how they are ordered—also, sometimes nested; myriad methodologies—per Style Guide choice, discipline, and other considerations; plus technical facility—handy look-up material at the ready.) A deeply researched, sourced, and written reference is critical as an editor. I have spent a ton of time, as I mount these new pages (and myStyleGuide), reading up. I have acquired a ton of very good references, but they are currently passels of loose tabs all over! Need to corral, and concentrate material into a working (personal) guide. DAUNTING!!
 * Citations –
 * Reference –
 * See Also –
 * Notes – Can notes be recycled, like citations? is there an "ibid" equivalent for Notes?

Legend Template (tx)
Do legend templates, w/in wiktext set of templates, contain symbols or characters, instead of only colors? Initial research is pretty much a dead end. Most google searches, and Wikipedia almost exclusively, point to elaborate map legends, with color labels. Further searches in the "graphic" and "chart" spaces lend a little better to simple, streamlined legends—but still only with color labels. Utilizing symbols and characters can't be this hard to find, ie. utilities on a campground or fairground map?

Example #1 {{legend|darkred|Label 1}} {{legend|gold|Label 2}}

Example #2 {{legend|(c)|Label 1}}  {{legend|(t)|Label 2}} Resource(url): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Graph:Chart#Legends

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[NOTE: Where logical, some URLs placed closer to their reference material.]**

Transclusion (t)
Technical method of including some or all of one stored document in another document, without having to copy the data itself.**

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Transclusion

Span tags (t)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Span_tags

Footnotes (t)
Despite the messiness, I have found several concise workable guides, and help pages. I have established a few preliminary page skeletons w/ adequate Footnotes sections. Baseline documentation is required. Gather resources and build Footnote editor "helper."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Footnotes#See_also

Padding + template (t)
Padding doc exist elsewhere on Lezelmaz namespace. Find and document. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Pad

Tables (t)
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Editing_Wikitext/Tables

Definition list (t)
''Begin with a semicolon. One item per line. A newline can appear before colon, but using a space before colon improves parsing (ie. add a space at end of semicolon "word" line; then start new "definition" line with colon.)''

Input, condensed [  tag ]: 
 * Word : Definition of the word
 * A longer phrase needing definition
 * Phrase defined


 * A word : Which has a definition
 * Also a second definition
 * And even a third

Input, long form [  tag] :

Sample Definition List, Output:
 * Hook : A short entry at Did you know.


 * History
 * All previous versions of an article, from its creation to its current state. Also called page history. See also: Help:Page history.


 * Hopelessly POV
 * Describing an article which, in the opinion of some Wikipedians, is so closely tied to a particular point of view as to be inherently in violation of Wikipedia policy and unable to be made neutral. Other Wikipedians consider the accusation "hopelessly POV" as being merely an excuse to suppress certain points of view.


 * Hat, Hab
 * 1. A collapsed (section of) discussion enclosed by (Template:Hidden archive top) and  (Template:Hidden archive bottom) templates. See Hatted, Hatting
 * 2. A specific user right, in the context of Hat collecting.
 * 3. If there was a third definition.

Code tag (t)

 * Requires  (inside) wrapper.
 * One line, or inline only. Will not format multiple-line code blocks.
 * Accepts HTML styling properties! wow!
 * Streamlined container (minimal padding; width ends at code line.)

Pre tag (t)
 … < /pre>
 * Somewhat similar to.
 * Width runs entire width of parent element (page, cell, etc.; HTML/CSS width attribute allowed.)
 * Lots of padding (if no style properties applied.)
 * Accepts HTML/CSS styling properties! wow!
 * [ ] tag with no style properties applied. … < /pre>

Syntaxhighlight tag (t)

 * Takes certain parameters such as  Will highlight syntax, accordingly.
 * Somewhat similar to.
 * Width runs entire width of parent element (page, cell, etc.; HTML/CSS width attribute allowed.)
 * Lots of padding.
 * Accepts some HTML/CSS styling properties, on top of built-in syntaxhighlight mechanism.
 * [ applied.

Examples:
 * 1) [ ] wrapper, color:red :
 * 2) [ ] wrapper, color:red; width:10em; padding:0px :
 * 3) [ ] wrapper (inline; no line break), plain text, simple monospace, no other attributes.
 * 1) [ ] wrapper (inline; no line break), plain text, simple monospace, no other attributes.
 * 1) [ ] wrapper (inline; no line break), plain text, simple monospace, no other attributes.
 * 1) [ ] wrapper (inline; no line break), plain text, simple monospace, no other attributes.

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Link depot
Loose list of useful, but raw, wikilinks -and- external URL's. Links need to be sorted, styled, and copy added in order to be useful on myStyleGuide page.**

URLs: useful

 * 1) https://app.grammarly.com / Grammarly
 * 2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Glossary / Wikipedia:Glossary (useful for content of the Glossary itself; and also for treatment as a template—used for myStyleGuide Glossary.)
 * 3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikimedia_sister_projects#Linking_between_projects / Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects (material mainly about linking, which is great. especially useful is anchor (#) "Linking between projects.")
 * 4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MergeAccount / my userpage—Special: MergeAccount
 * 5) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Unified_login#Will_I_have_autoconfirmed_status_on_other_wikis? / Help:Unified login (Resolve "logging in" questions; useful anchor link (#).)
 * 6) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserRights / Special Page: See user data
 * 7) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tips/Create_your_sister_accounts_now / Sister Projects/tip
 * 8) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Interwiki_linking / Help:Interwiki linking
 * 9) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links / Help:Links/MediWiki (in general, many MediaWiki help pages are useful.)
 * 10) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Linking / Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking
 * 11) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lezelmaz / (User page / Document and place a menu of all Lezelmaz subpages.)
 * 12) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lezelmaz&action=info / ***** ESPECIALLY USEFUL PAGE ***** (Linkthrough "User > Tools (menu) > Page Information." Follow "External Tools" menu on info page; particularly Lint error (link); WikiChecker, etc.)
 * 13) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LintErrors?namespace=2&titlesearch=Lezelmaz/sandbox/to_do&exactmatch=1 / sample Lintchecker report
 * 14) https://www.w3.org/html/wiki/Elements / W3C has its own WIKI!
 * 15) https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Editing_Wikitext/Making_Templates_A101 WikiBooks/Editing Wikitext/Making Templates A101
 * 16) https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Editing_Wikitext / WikiBooks (Looks like a great general source for editing Wikitext.
 * 17) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext / WP )Another generalized guide for editing Wikitext.)

URLs: investigate

 * 1) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Glossary / Wikitionary Glossary ("This is a glossary of terms used in the Wiktionary community but not in the body of the dictionary;" SEE WIKIPEDIA GLOSSARY for known usefulness)
 * 2) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Community_Portal / Wiktionary:Community Portal
 * 3) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Help:Interacting_with_other_users / Wiktionary/Help:Interacting with other users (Wikit):
 * 4) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Information_desk / Wiktionary:Information desk
 * 5) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Tea_room / Wiktionary:Tea room
 * 6) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Administrators / Wiktionary:Administrators (useful for finding experienced user pages; inner workings of a page; and some intriguing elements.
 * 7) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page / MetaWiki
 * 8) https://en.wikibooks.org/ Sister project, WikiBooks looks intriguing.
 * 9) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/About / Parsoid/About; MediaWiki project. (A peek at guts of parsing HTML by mediawiki. Very inside baseball.)

It's all Greek to me
''Some wiktext elements, and Wikipedia features are a swamp of gobbledygook. I'm posting them here for future analysis.''
 * TEMPLATES: Clearly, I need a deeper understanding of how templates function; and correct implementation. The auto template feature in Wikipedia's editor is unintelligible to me. 1) Many templates have multiple implementations. Sorting them out (at the template-specific doc page) is generally not clear. 2) I'm unfamiliar with how parameters are set and how they work.**

--- [NOTE: See Footnotes at bottom of the page. All footnote sections were auto-generated—every one produced multiple errors that I don't understand.]**

Notes2
''(Due to missing TemplateData, parameters for this template have been auto-generated. Please be aware that they may not be accurate.)** ''

Userspace Notes
. (No parameters could be determined for this template due to absence of TemplateData documentation. You may insert the template without parameters.)**

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