User:Shinkolobwe

Shinkolobwe was simply the first name non rejected by Wikipedia during the registration procedure of a new user.

Sorry, I used my user page to personally store tips and tricks to become acquainted with editing Wikipedia, so this page is terribly messy and has to be considered as a sandbox. For discussions, please use my Talk page.

/Sandbox

Go to: User:Shinkolobwe/Tabs page to setup the user tabs Attention to the critical position of the tags in the list!

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Translation

 * Translation
 * Help:Translation
 * Content translation tool
 * Wikimedia:Content translation
 * Special:ContentTranslation

Wikimedia Toolforge: Tools wmflabs
Wikimedia Toolforge

XTools

Template translator

Category suggester

Catanalysis

PetScan

Category redirects

Reverse Category tree

CrossCats

CSV → Wikitable

Tab2Wiki

Flickr-to-Commons

Earwig's Copyvio Detector

Earwig's Copyvios.toolforge

Editing tools
Following tools can correct several problems:
 * Auto-Formatter
 * WP:AutoWikiBrowser (AWB)
 * WP:WPCleaner
 * WP:AutoEd
 * User:Edward/Find link

Reference tools
Home: RefToolbar

Useful tips and tricks: Use Reflist along with the tags to declutter the body text from all the references codes and to make the page text much more readable and accessible. So, all references codes are only stored in the reference list tag Reflist at the end of the page as most reference manager programs do. Then, the body text only contains the tags and is more easy to read. Fortuitously found in Thermokarst on 2020-09-19. :-)

Help:Using the Wayback Machine

Help:List-defined references

Help:Citation tools

Citing sources

Wikipedia talk:Tools

https://citer.toolforge.org/

https://citation.crosscite.org/

T DOI Wikipedia reference generator

T Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books

User:Zhaofeng Li author of CiteGen Javascript

User:Zhaofeng Li/CiteGen

WebRef Homepage

reFill: reFill (formerly Reflinks) is a tool that expands bare URL references semi-automatically, hosted on Toolforge.

Refill to convert an url address in a Cite Web template

User:Dispenser/Reflinks to complete rotlinks

https://copyvios.toolforge.org/

List-defined references (LDR)
How to declutter the page from the long references directly embedded in the text body. See the Help:
 * Help:Footnotes
 * Help:List-defined_references (WP:LDRHOW)
 * Help:List-defined_references
 * Citing_sources (WP:CITEVAR)

or, alternatively,

Help:List-defined_references#Converting
Reference styles may be converted from or to list-defined references, following the same rules for other major changes to citation style, at WP:CITEVAR. User:PleaseStand/segregate-refs.js has an option to assist conversion.

Open or paying access articles
OABOT


 * doi-access=free


 * url-access=subscription

Multiple non-breaking spaces

 * Template:Spaces :
 * Un long espace vide ++   ++.
 * Un long espace vide ++   ++.

Non breaking hyphen
The character used is U+2011 ‑ NON-BREAKING HYPHEN
 * Template:Non breaking hyphen

Template:Glossary link internal
See also: Template:Glossary link internal

The template ' and its variant ' ( for short) are templates for creating structured links to particular entries in topical glossaries.

Diff


There is several ways to indicate a difference between revisions for a discussion on a Talk page or to add a comment in an edit summary:

By simply copying the URL of the Diff page in between square brackets [ ] as, e.g.:

See here

Or, better and shorter using wiki codes:

without explicitly mentioning the name of the page because the two numbers "oldid" and "diff" are sufficient to identify without ambiguity the Diff in the Wikipedia database. Only the numbers must be indicated without explaining text with "oldid" or "diff" labels
 * Wikilink also usable in edit summary:
 * text ,


 * The parameter /oldid number/ allows to compare a given version of the page with a more ancient one not immediately consecutive (i.e., with at least one page in between them, or more). The /oldid number/ is facultative. When the /oldid number/ is omitted, the /diff parameter is sufficient and returns only the difference with the previous page immediately preceding the modification one wishes to indicate

here
 * The most concise and minimalist Diff to be included in an Edit Summary to refer to a given change is thus:


 * Template only usable in Discussion pages, because templates recognisable by their double curved brackets  are not active in the Edit summary


 * with the same order of parameters diff|oldid than in the URL (https://...) of the Diff page


 * or with:


 * with an automatic substitution of the link parameters:



Tags for dead links
|url-status=dead

Template:Mvar for mathematical variables in a text
See Template:Mvar, $text$ to render $text$ in italic.

Mvar template to display mathematical variables in italic and math format in line in the text. $x$ displays as $x$. Better than to use $$x$$ wich renders as $$x$$, slightly bolder.

See also Template:Math for inline, non-complex formulas as an alternative to using the $$...$$ tag pair.

SVG tools

 * SVG-edit, a web based SVG editor on Github
 * SVG-edit on Github

Chemistry tools

 * Hyperquad suite of programs related to stability constants

How to urgently report quickly evolving and massive vandalism
To urgently report obvious, quickly evolving, and persistent massive vandalism or spam on multiple pages and to see if an active vandal has already been identified, use the following page: Administrator intervention against vandalism This page is continuously refreshed by a bot and only displays current on-going obvious and persistent vandalism not yet blocked. Once the vandal has been blocked, the request for blocking disappears from the active living-list. Do not abuse of this page: it is restricted to emergency calls for blocking fast evolving vandalism, not for minor or occasional, non-persistent, vandalism.

Wikipedia Tools
Tools to correct bug problems on Wikipedia:
 * Wikimedia:Portal:Toolforge
 * Auto-Formatter
 * AutoWikiBrowser (AWB)
 * WPCleaner
 * AutoEd

Template:Start tab

 * Template:Start tab
 * Help:Template

Reply with a notification to another user
Syntax shown with "pre" tags:

Syntax shown with "nowiki" tags:

Effective results: Modèle:Bonjour (French WP) Modèle:Merci (French WP)

Outdent template
Useful in a long discussion on a talk page:





Hidden text in figure caption
Use the template hidden:

Abbreviation and tooltip
Use the template abbr:

VESA

e.g.: VESA without wikilink

Use the template abbrlink:

VESA

e.g.: VESA to link to the corresponding page

Which is the equivalent to:

VESA

It is always more prudent to embed a template in the right part of a wiki link Page target name than to incorporate a link inside a template:

The template abbr is reserved to abbreviation while the template tooltip is required for more explanations about a longer piece of text and avoids breaking down W3C rules:

So, for more explanations, use the template tooltip:

IPoTB

e.g.: IPoTB

Annotated link
For the See also sections:


 * Bracketing the bulleted list of targeted links to be substituted
 * Bracketing the bulleted list of targeted links to be substituted

Template for chemical formula
Very useful and simple to use, see the two variants:

Template:Chem

Template:Chem2: much simpler and easier to correctly format chemical reactions!

chemical reaction simply typed in plain text

2 NaOH + SiO2 -> Na2SiO3 + H2O 2 NaOH + SiO2 -> Na2SiO3 + H2O

It does the same job than without generating a larger gif picture:

General recommendation: adapt and stick to the current main usage on the visited page

Interwiki
See here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Linking#Interwiki_links

Manual_of_Style/Linking

Interwiki_links

Interwiki links can take the form of:
 * which appears as: article

The pipe symbol suppresses the prefix:
 * → article

Adding text after the pipe allows different text:
 * → Any text

To avoid reader confusion, inline interlanguage, or interwiki, linking within an article's body text is generally discouraged. Exceptions: Wiktionary and Wikisource entries may be linked inline (e.g. to an unusual word or the text of a document being discussed), and Interlanguage link template may be helpful to show a red link accompanied by an interlanguage link if no article exists in English Wikipedia.

Edit Review Improvements/New filters for edit review

Help:Interlanguage links
Help:Interlanguage links

Example of the Interlanguage link (ill) template: Nino_Ferrari (engineer) Nino_Ferrari (engineer)

Inline links (links in the text of the article)
When the English Wikipedia doesn't have an article, the links to it show up as red links. We don't have an article on Hanning Schröder (it shows up as a red link), but the German Wikipedia does. It is possible to:


 * 1) Write   to link directly to the German version; the link shows up as "Hanning Schröder"
 * 2) Write  to give both a redlinked English link and a German blue link: "Hanning Schröder (de)"
 * 3) Use the template interlanguage link which does the same thing as above, but hides the German link if the English redlink turns blue. By writing   we get: "Hanning Schröder".

The first option is not preferred because it hides the fact that the English Wikipedia is missing that article, and because it can be very unexpected for someone who doesn't speak German to suddenly be sent to a German page.

Standard templates in use within Wikipedia

 * WP:TEMPLATE and various other shortcuts provides an index for a wide range of standard templates in use within Wikipedia. It also gives an overview of what subjects are covered within each heading.. For information on what templates are and how the template namespace is intended to be used, please see Template namespace.

Difference between Citation and References List or Notes

 * Citation are used in-line in the text to refer to a given reference, while;
 * References list or Notes are used at the end of the page to compile a list with all the references cited in the text.

General information on source citation
For general information on source citation in Wikipedia, see WP:CITE.

Citation template
Citation cleanup templates are listed here.

Below are examples of how to use templates to cite books, encyclopedias, journals, theses, papers, websites, comic strips, videos, and editorial comics. See also Category:Citation templates. If there is a possibility that Harvard referencing will be used in the article in future, consider using the Citation templates (shown second in relation to each source) for additional linking functionality with Template:Harvard citation. This linking from cite to reference does not work with the other templates shown below.

For requiring extra in line citations or reference, use the following templates:

if there is insufficient in line citations

if there is insufficient references

Reference name (naming a ref tag so it can be used more than once)
To give a footnote a unique identifier, use &lt;ref name="name"> ... &lt;/ref>. You can then refer to the same footnote again by using a ref tag with the same name like  . The name cannot be a number, or the extension will return an error.

Footnotes

Template:Reflist
See: Template:Reflist

For list-defined grouped references, use |refs=.

Within the references list:

These references should be invoked as citation in the body text as usual:

{{Reflist|group="groupname"|refs= It is very useful to declutter the page code from all the codes of the references and to store all the references together in a reference list at the end of the page: "References" list or "Further reading" list.

Template:Harvard citation documentation
Template:Harvard citation documentation

Harvard referencing

Parenthetical referencing

Citing sources

Template:Ref harvard
For making references list at the end of the page Template:Ref harvard

Template:Ref
For making references list at the end of the page Template:Ref

Template:Note
For making notes list at the end of the page: Template:Note

Template:Wikiref
For making notes list at the end of the page: Template:Wikiref

Citation templates
Category:Citation_templates

Template:Cite book

Template:Cite journal

Template:Cite journal/doc

Rarely used but useful fields:
 * format   = pdf
 * quote    =
 * ref      = Harv
 * separator =

Template:Cite news

Template:Cite web

Template:Google scholar cite for talk pages only !!!

Template:Cite doi

To automatically generate a citation by a bot.

This citation is centrally stored and managed on WP and available to all contributors. When the bot generates the citation and adds it into the central citation template category, the citation is not directly inserted in the page, but rather transcluded in the page. This allows a central management of the automatically generated reference and avoid to clutter the page with a full reference. The reference remains editable with a small button appearing in the references list.

To find a reference, look at the category:

User:Citation bot
RefToolbar: with a button in the edit toolbar

User:Citation bot, used to correct references

User:Citation bot/use

The Wikipedia citation bot: activation via a web page

AutoWikiBrowser: AWB, an external program to do semi-automated editing

Reference tool
Universal reference formatter

[http://toolserver.org/~holek/cite-gen/index.php? Citation template generator]

http://toolserver.org/~holek/cite-gen/index.php?citelang=en&s[append-author-link]=1&s[append-newlines]=1&s[add-references]=1&s[add-list]=1&template=monobook&scriptlang=en

User:CitationTool

User:Smith609/RefTool, used to make references

Script stored in User:username/monobook.js

User:Smith609/Scopus

If you use Scopus, you can add a link to each search result that will translate it into a pre-filled template. That means an end to copying and pasting details into Wikipedia!

Template:Google scholar cite

Digital Object Identifier
DOI

WikiProject Resource Exchange
WikiProject Resource Exchange

Template:Excerpt for transclusion

 * Template:Excerpt

Template:Chembox new for standard chemicals
Available subst templates: type chembox subst or chembox subst small in the document and press save to get the empty box):

* chembox subst or chembox subst small for standard chemicals * chembox subst medium, a bit more information * chembox subst full or chembox subst large, a complete list

Below the chembox new. Notes: For more information, see template:chembox.
 * Parameters work only in their own section.
 * When a parameter is not needed, please leave it empty, when a parameter is wrong, just clear its contents.
 * When a section is really not needed, delete the whole section.

Scientist Biography
Template:Infobox scientist

Insertion of a page in another one with a simple link
Transclusion

WP:TRANS

External media – External images
Template:External media

Template:Linktext
Link word by word to Wikidictionary.

Interwiki Link
Example:

St. Peter's Cathedral (pre)

(code)

St. Peter's Cathedral (nowiki)

St. Peter's Cathedral

Melamin (nowiki)

Melamin Forrières

Hotcat
Use HOTCAT to add a JS to manage categories.

Use of colour for fonts and text background
blue writing

blue writing

Signature

Do not forget the semi-colon as properties separator. Properties are in between two quotes ""

Notes in line Citation
How to cite and insert a note?

Correct Sort in category
pour bien se retrouver dans la catégorie E et non pas E accent aigu

Include a page in another one
See: Transclusion

fr:User:Shinkolobwe

Category conventions

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CAT#The_category_system


 * Categorization


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization#What_is_the_naming_convention_for_categories.3F


 * FAQ/Categorization

How to ask to move a protected page?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Editprotected

Wikipedia:Graphic Lab
GL/MAP

Graphic Lab

Wikipedia:Tools

 * Tools
 * Toolserver
 * User:CitationTool
 * EIW
 * http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikiciter/
 * Citing sources
 * URF: Universal Reference Formatter
 * http://toolserver.org/~verisimilus/Scholar/ Citation with Google Scholar
 * http://toolserver.org/~verisimilus/Scholar/Cite.php Citation form
 * Tools
 * Template:Google scholar cite
 * Tools
 * https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Category:Tools_by_tags

Wikipedia:Text editor support
Text editor support

Tools/Navigation popups

Anti-vandalism tool
Twinkle RedWarn (currently proposed to be renamed in Ultraviolet, WP:UV)

Autoarchive tool
User:MiszaBot III is a bot for autoarchiving talk pages

mindat.org is on Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Robert_Lavinsky

I just went on Commons and saw that Robert Lavinsky of mindat.org donated his entire database of ~29,000 pictures to Wikimedia commons. You can read about it at Commons:Commons:Robert Lavinsky. Since you did much of the work on the mineral articles, I thought you might be interested. Awickert (talk) 01:45, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Template for photo request
Useful tag to request photographs.

Magnus Toys
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/index.html

Conversion of Excel table to wiki table

Image uploading onto Commons:

http://toolserver.org/~magnus/fist.php

Software

Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files

Huggle
Huggle/Manual: an antivandalism tool

Flinfo
The easy way to upload to Wikimedia Commons

http://toolserver.org/~magnus/fist.php

http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/flinfo.php

WikiProject Rocks and minerals
WikiProject_Rocks_and_minerals

User:Jean-Pol_GRANDMONT
An excellent Belgian photograph on the Commons User:Jean-Pol_GRANDMONT

Template Messages
Template_messages/User_talk_namespace