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{{workpage}}
{{nutshell|A collection of cute and/or useful bits of formatting code}}

<h2 style="font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold; border-width: 2px 2px 2px 2px; border-style: solid; border-color: grey; background-color: #cf9; padding: .5em; margin: 10px 0; ">LINKS</h2>
<!--<div style="font-size: 17px; background-color: #cf9; padding: 0.5em; border: solid 1px grey; -moz-border-radius: 0px;">'''LINKS '''</div> (old code) -->

''Note: putting text ABOVE any headers keeps it at the top of the page, but it doesn't get in the TOC; current code puts it in TOC, but it doesn't have its own separate "edit" tab - think we can live with that (just "edit" the whole page)!  Also note the <nowiki>{{TOCright}}</nowiki> command; its (vertical) placement affects where the TOC box shows up.''

<blockquote style="background: #9cf; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
<div style="text-align: center;">'''''[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixindex&from=Martha_Forsyth&namespace=2 Links to my sub-pages]'''''</div></blockquote>

{{TOCright}}

====Misc cool pieces o' code:====
* <nowiki>{{cquote|whatever you want big quotation marks around}}</nowiki> gives:
{{cquote|whatever you want big quotation marks around}}
{{Rquote|right|This is an example pullquote with the first option set to ''right''.|[[Anonymity|Anonymous]]|''Rquote template page''}}
:* Also look at [[Template:Rquote]], gives (oops…keep the TOC "hidden" to see this decently!)
{{clear}}

* [http://www.uni-bonn.de/~manfear/html2wiki-tables.php HTML-to-Wiki-table converter]

* [http://www.wikimatrix.org/ compare features in various wiki programs]  (as of 21:14, 14 March 2008 (UTC))

* [[User:Peteforsyth#some wikitricks | Some wikitricks, at User:Peteforsyth]]  --17:51, 22 June 2007 (UTC), updated 02:21, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

* [[:cs:Wikipedista:PaD/Obrázky pro pahýly |"Stub" pictures, e.g.:]]
[[Image:Flag map of Bulgaria.svg|100px|thumb|center|Bulgaria]]
: (boy did I wrestle with THIS simple format!!  Problem was where to put "center" in
:: <nowiki>[[Image:Flag map of Bulgaria.svg|100px|thumb|center|Bulgaria]]</nowiki>)   --[[User:Martha Forsyth|Martha]] 20:04, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

* [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas_of_Bulgaria Commons Atlas of Bulgaria]
* [[User:TodorBozhinov/Bulgaria free image resources]] - wow, usable images - '''plus''' what licensing code to use for each of his sources!!

* [http://stats.grok.se/en/ Get statistics on # of viewers of a page] (However, you have to go to this link, and put the page-name and the year/month code (one of those listed) into the '''address bar''', not into the search-box, that doesn't work.)

* "Blockquote" gives a nice box! within which you can define colors, border size, etc.  Here is one example: 

<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;"> 
<nowiki><blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;"> This material…</blockquote></nowiki><p>
This material is enclosed in a "blockquote".</p></blockquote>
: Or:
<blockquote style="background: lightgrey; padding: 1em;"> something like this: <nowiki><blockquote style="background: lightgrey; padding: 1em;"> (and remember </blockquote>!)</nowiki> </blockquote>
: OR: '''A "simple box"!'''
:: Border, color, etc., could be changed?? (and note that it has a "blockquote" [whose parameters could also be changed] inside it):
{| border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" align="center" width="90%" style="background-color: #EEEEEE;"
|-
|This is a box, which has a<blockquote><div style= "font-size:87%;"> — BLOCKQUOTE in it.</div></blockquote>
|}
* See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Quotation_templates Quotation templates] (''TONS'' of 'em!)

===='''REFERENCES and LINKS:'''====

<blockquote style="background: #ffc; border: 2px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color:red; font-size:large">Most Extraordinarily Useful Tool!!!</b>
[http://toolserver.org/%7Emagnus/makeref.php Reference Generator] makes all kinds of refs, using correct template! (How '''do''' they do it?!)
More tools available at [[Wikipedia:Citing sources#Citation creation tools]]</div></blockquote>
<div style="text-align: center;">(But now there's this "Templates" dropdown, upper left, which is often all I need.  17:48, 21 September 2011 (UTC))</div>
: [[Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Complete_citations_in_a_.22References.22_section | Citing sources]]
: [[Wikipedia:Citation_templates | Citation templates of ALL sorts]]
: [[Wikipedia:Footnotes | Footnotes]]
: Note refs at [[Chelopech]] - by using code: 
:: '''<nowiki><ref name=visitbg>[http://www.visittobulgaria.com/visit/Dir.asp?d=0-13-sofia-Chelopech Chelopech], from Visit to Bulgaria web site</ref></nowiki>'''
:: the next time the same ref comes up, all you have to put is: '''<nowiki><ref name=visitbg/></nowiki>'''
:: Duh! Peter told me this several months ago! including warning me about the "trailing slash", see below in [[#References]].  (There's gotta be a way to make a reference to a section WITHIN the same page....another new frontier, some other day!) --  01:59, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
::: Ha!  I got it! '''<nowiki>[[#References]]</nowiki>''' gives: [[#References]]!  -- 02:16, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
:::: but '''<nowiki>[[#References|References]]</nowiki>''' [[#References|References]] is cleaner!  — 22:44, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

: [[Harriet_Tubman|Interesting style!]] — combines "References" and "Bibliography" so the page-refs can be precise! (I '''like''' this!)

: [[CSS Zen Garden]]

===='''Redirect'''====
First "create redlink" around the relevant word (put <nowiki>[[ ]]</nowiki>).  Then click on it and, when I get to the non-existent page, put in this code (with relevant content!):
: <nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Sliven Province#Nature Park Sinite Kamani - The Blue Rocks]]</nowiki>

==== [[:Category:Wikipedia_how-to | Wikipedia How-to]]====
: [[Wikipedia:Userboxes |Userboxes!]]  --[[User:Martha Forsyth|Martha]] 18:22, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
:: Note particularly [[Wikipedia:Userboxes#Userbox_sampling_templates | Userbox sampling templates]]
: (external link) [http://www.yerich.net/test3/userbox-gen.php The Super-Simple Userbox Maker] - External tool that outputs userboxes in wiki markup. With built-in color schemes.
: [[:Category:Wikipedia_templates | Wikipedia templates]]
: [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style | Wikipedia:Manual of Style]] is a treasure-trove! and leads to more
: [[Wikipedia:Guide_to_layout | Wikipedia:Layout]] (guide to layout)
: [[Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page | Wikipedia:How to edit a page]]
: [[Help:Contents/Links|Help:Contents/Links]]
: [[Wikipedia:Annotated_article | Annotated article]]
: [[Wikipedia:Picture tutorial]] has '''almost''' everything I ever wanted to know about '''images and image placement!''' 
: [[Wikipedia:Tools]] — lots o' stuff, including:
:: '''Finding the responsible editor:'''
:::* [http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php WikiBlame]<div></div> – searches for given text in versions of article
:::* [[User:AmiDaniel/WhodunitQuery]] – Windows application that identifies the edit and user who added a specific word or phrase




'''("Advanced" topics?)'''
: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates Mediawiki Help:Templates] (how to create) and [[meta:Help:Parser function]] (what the heck is a "Parser function"?! Peter suggested both of these)

===='''MAP stuff'''====
: [[Template:Location map+]] - ''Map with locater mark (go to the template page for full code).  Same for all.''
: [[Template:Infobox Settlement]]
: [[Template:Infobox Lake]]
: [[Template:Location map]]
: [[Template:Geobox/type]]
: Experimenting with these templates, it seems it doesn't matter what ''order'' you put the fields, they'll come out in the predicted places in the box.  (Why would the order change?  If, e.g., you've deleted some, or they aren't there, and you want to add 'em back in, you don't have to worry about WHERE you add 'em, just formulate them correctly and they'll come out OK.  I wrestled for a long time with the box on [[Chelopech]], it can give me some reminders.
: See [[#Locating places on a map]], though, for some important information!

: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps]] has a lot of promising info/links.
: [http://visibleearth.nasa.gov Satellite photos!] NASA, so copyright-free (few exceptions)
<--: ([http://www.placeopedia.com/ Placeopedia]), "Connecting WIkipedia articles with their locations". Runs on open-source software (non-commercial website).-->

====Ah, '''IMAGES!'''====
:* e.g., [[Image:Icône_étoile_d'or_à_cinq_branches.svg|20px]] - find 'em at, e.g., [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Star Wikimedia Commons] (this one specifies "star" - dunno how to search for these yet! but note how to size them; leaving out <nowiki>|thumb|</nowiki> gets rid of the arrow AND the border seen above) - and oh wowza, [[Image:SVG exact five-armed star filled.svg|100px]]
:* [[Wikipedia:Image copyright tags]] will help figure out which one is appropriate!

:* '''IMAGE PLACEMENT:'''

:: There's a great page with '''almost everything I ever wanted to know about images and image placement''' at: [[Wikipedia:Picture tutorial]]!

:: Note nice example at [[Steamboats of the Columbia River#Railway completion forces steamboats off routes]].
::: Description (because it may change: Two images are in this section (which has 3 paragraphs).  By putting the first one at the beginning of ¶2 as <nowiki>[[Image:xx.jpg|thumb|right|caption]]</nowiki> and the second at the beginning of ¶3 as <nowiki>[[Image:xx.jpg|thumb|left|caption]]</nowiki>, they balance very nicely on the page!

:* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:External_editors Manual:External editors] - editing images with an external editor

====Ah, '''[[Wikipedia:Templates|TEMPLATES!]]''' (Also of interest: '''[[Wikipedia:Category|CATEGORIES]]''')====
===== ''From my ever-lovin' son:'' =====
<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;"><span style="color:red">Another trick to seeing how templates work: use the word "subst" in the code, like this: <nowiki>{{subst:Wikibreak|message=blah}}</nowiki>. This will actually move the template's code into the page, instead of just "calling for it" every time somebody brings up the page. So after you save, you can click "edit" again and tinker around with the code.</span> --- [[User:Peteforsyth|Pete]] ([[User talk:Peteforsyth|talk]]) 19:17, 16 November 2007(UTC)</blockquote>
: (guess I wasn't up to absorbing it when he told me....) 18:19, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

===== ''Sub-category: '''[[Wikipedia:Infobox|INFOBOXES]]''' - a whole universe unto itself!''=====
: [[Template:Infobox_Musical_artist | Infobox Musical artist]]
: [[Template:Infobox_Album | Infobox Album]]

===== ''Some Useful examples (enter them, e.g. <nowiki>{{Work in progress}}</nowiki>:''=====
: [[Template:Work in progress]] yields 
{{Work in progress}}
: [[Template:nutshell]] (used at head of this page!, entering <nowiki>{{Work in progress|A collection of cute and/or useful bits of formatting code}}</nowiki>)
: Placed after something questionable: [[Template:dubious]] (enter "date=[month] [year])" yields {{dubious|date=April 2008}}
: [[Template:cleanup-rewrite]] (enter "date=[month] [year])" yields {{cleanup-rewrite}}
: [[Template:fact]] (enter "date=[month] [year])" yields yields {{Fact|date=[month] [year]}}
: [[Template:Clarifyme]] (enter "date=[month] [year])" yields {{Clarifyme|date=[month] [year]}}
: [[Template:Vague]] (enter "date=[month] [year])" yields {{Vague|date=[month] [year]}} ''(This template apparently includes a line-feed somewhere.)''
: [[Template:clear]] - lets next section start BELOW a large object (image, box, whatever) rather than in the middle of it.
: {{Done}} [[Template:Done]]

: [[Template:Workpage]] A <nowiki>{{Workpage}}</nowiki> should be a sub-page of an article's "Talk" page.
{{Workpage}}

===== ''and Some Fun examples:'' =====
<div style="float:center; border-style:solid; border-color:green; background-color:AliceBlue; border-width:1px; text-align:left; padding:8px; vertical-align: middle;" class="plainlinks">[[Image:Cat into the box.jpg|left|70px|Joy]] 
<!--Begin message-->
[[User:Martha Forsyth|Martha]] ([[User talk:Martha Forsyth|talk]]) has given you a kitten! Kittens promote [[WP:LOVE|Wikilove]] and hopefully this one has made your day better. Share the WikiLove and civility with everyone and keep up the excellent editing! Send '''kittens''' to others by adding {{tls|Joy message}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
</div>


===== ''and Some Oddballs:'' =====
: [[Template:ethnic group]] - Note what <nowiki>|image=<div style="background-color:#fee8ab"><small><small> [[Avvakum]] • [[Patriarch Nikon]] • [[Mikhail Devyatayev]] • [[Vasily Klyuchevsky]]</small></small> }}</nowiki> does '''(multiple images''').  But - aha! - it's simpler than that: Image:MrdvnImg1.jpg is itself a multiple image (description "Collage of images representing the Mordvin people. From left to right: Avvakum, Patriarch Nikon, Mikhail Devyatayev, Vasily Klyuchevsky..":
{{ethnic group|
|group=Volgaic Finns
|image=<!--Do not use unfree artwork here--><div style="background-color:#fee8ab"><small><small> [[Avvakum]] • [[Patriarch Nikon]] • [[Mikhail Devyatayev]] • [[Vasily Klyuchevsky]]</small></small></div> }}
{{clear}}


----

== "TO DO" ==

* <s>* Get a map onto the [[Dospat Dam]] page (the position in the map below is not accurate!)</s> HA!!  It's been [[Dospat|DONE]] (but not by me - however this is a good example)! - 03:18, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

: Hmm, SHOULD the map be on the Dospat Dam page too??? Probably better the version under discussion [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Maps#Advice_on_this_map.3F here]. (1-2 April 2008)
: Aha: [http://wikimapia.org/2006803/ WikiMapia:Dospat reservoir].  [<s>How can this be used??</s>  Damn! it can't = copyrighted.]  And what does the page title have to say about the point below (usage of Dam vs. Reservoir)??? 19:09, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

:* Also, if you look up [[Dam]] you find that it actually IS the wall (''except'' in some dialects, e.g., Australian)  — so "should" the page's title be changed to Dospat Dam and Reservoir (as in [[Pasarel]]?)  Guess I should post on the article's Talk page.
:: Did, and got a helpful reply on [[Talk:Dospat_Dam]] from [[User:Master of Puppets]].  He says: "To change the name, you have to [[WP:MOVE|move]] it. However, in this case the name we're looking for is the one it is known as. If newspapers and such call it the Dospat Dam, then that's what the article name should be."  So, I'd need to check THAT out first.

* [[Bistritsa, Sofia]] needs some work...
* [[Focusing]] too


=== (Somewhat) urgent ===
* <s>Copyright tags for my Rila Monastery photos, see [[User_talk:Martha_Forsyth#Rila]]</s>

==== [[Ilse Stanley]]!!! ====
Material MOVED to [[User:Martha Forsyth/Sandbox]].

=== "Here for safekeeping" ===
* Copied from [[User:Cameltrader/Rila_monastery_inscription]], related to my work on "Image:Detail of Rila Monastery wall painting.jpg", discussion found on [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Bulgaria#witch]] (just keeping it here for easy ref. (and because I like the way it looks!), copied it on 00:09, 6 April 2008 (UTC))

<div style="white-space: pre;
            /*text-transform: uppercase;*/
            text-align: right;
            background-color: #69c;
            color: white;
            overflow-x: auto;
            padding: 0 1em;
            /*font-family: serif;*/">
<big>М</big>агє&#769;сницыт<small>є</small> и&#1158; вражали&#769;цыт<small>є</small> са дѧ&#769;волски слуги&#768;,  за т<small>о</small>ва&#768; и&#1158; дѧ&#769;волъ-о
&#10;
мно&#769;госє ра&#769;дува, ска&#769;ча, и&#1158; и&#1158;гра&#769;є, прє&#768;дъ о&#1158;ніѧ, що и&#769;да<sup><small>т</small></sup> при&#768; ни&#768;, и&#1158; това&#768;
&#10;
що запоѧ&#769;ва<sup><small>т</small></sup>, и&#1158; що захра&#769;нува<sup><small>т</small></sup>, о&#1158;но&#768; є&#768; дѧ&#769;волски гнусотіи кои&#768; о&#1158;ста&#769;вѧ<sup><small>т</small></sup>
&#10;
б&#1155;га, зако&#769;нъ-а, и&#1158; цє&#769;ркват<small>а</small>, и&#1158; хо&#769;дa<sup><small>т</small></sup> при вражали&#769;цыт<small>є</small> о&#1158;ни&#768; нє
&#10;
са&#768; б&#1155;жїи&#768;, но дѧ&#769;волски слуги&#768;..
</div>

New version (maybe I like the old one better?!):
<div style="white-space: pre;
            text-transform: uppercase;
            text-align: right;
            background-color: #6d87a8;
            color: white;
            overflow-x: auto;
            padding: 0 1em;
            /*font-family: serif;*/">
<big>М</big>агє&#769;сницыт<small>є</small> и&#1158; вражали&#769;цыт<small>є</small> са дѧ&#769;волски слуги&#768;,  за т<small>о</small>ва&#768; и&#1158; дѧ&#769;волъ-о
&#10;
мно&#769;госє ра&#769;дува, ска&#769;ча, и&#1158; и&#1158;гра&#769;є, прє&#768;дъ о&#1158;ніѧ, що и&#769;да<sup><small>т</small></sup> при&#768; ни&#768;, и&#1158; това&#768;
&#10;
що запоѧ&#769;ва<sup><small>т</small></sup>, и&#1158; що захра&#769;нува<sup><small>т</small></sup>, о&#1158;но&#768; є&#768; дѧ&#769;волски гнусотіи кои&#768; о&#1158;ста&#769;вѧ<sup><small>т</small></sup>
&#10;
б&#1155;га, зако&#769;нъ-а, и&#1158; цє&#769;ркват<small>а</small>, и&#1158; хо&#769;дa<sup><small>т</small></sup> при вражали&#769;цыт<small>є</small> о&#1158;ни&#768; нє
&#10;
са&#768; б&#1155;жїи&#768;, но дѧ&#769;волски слуги&#768;..
</div>
Wee.e.ell.lll - I ''like'' the old one better, but the new one's more legible!

==TESTING (~"sandbox") area==
Bigger one available at [[User:Martha Forsyth/Sandbox]]!


Putting subst: at the beginning ({{mono|<nowiki>{{subst:Wikibreak|message=you write whatever you want here}}</nowiki>}}) causes the full code to be entered, instead of the shortened version the template usually brings up.  Result of entering that is:

{| class="messagebox standard" style=background:#F8EABA
|-
| [[Image:{{ #switch: {{{type}}} | exams = Nuvola apps bookcase.png | attempting | wikibreak | normal | short | #default = Sunset at Huntington Beach.jpg }}|{{#if:|{{{imagesize}}}|75px}}]]
| style="text-align: center"|  
you write whatever you want here
|}

==Locating places on a map==
<nowiki>[[template:location map]]</nowiki> 

{{location map|Bulgaria
|label=Here is Dospat, really!
|background=#FFF0DE
|lat_deg    = 41
|lat_min    = 39
|lon_deg    = 24
|lon_min    = 10
}}

This didn't work right! I <s>put in the same coordinates as "Dospat" in the lower of the two maps, but it positions wrong in the upper map!</s>

: Bless you, [[User:Obersachse|Obersachse]], for helping me out with this!  Such a simple thing, but hours of wrestling with it, over a period of weeks, just didn't get me to the answer.  Thanks again, and again.  Here are the gory details Obersachse gave me:

:: |lon_deg = longitude degrees<br>
:: |lon_min = longitude minutes

:: is not the same as

:: |long = longitude (decimal format).

:::: -- [[User:Martha Forsyth|Martha]] ([[User talk:Martha Forsyth|talk]]) 15:06, 29 March 2008 (UTC)


=== Infobox Settlement ===
{{Infobox Settlement <!--more fields are available for this Infobox--See Template:Infobox Settlement-->
|official_name = Dospat<!-- alternate:{{PAGENAME}} - gives name of page as title of map-->
|subdivision_type = [[Countries of the world|Country]]
|subdivision_name       = {{BUL}}
|subdivision_type1      = [[Provinces of Bulgaria|Provinces]]
|timezone=[[Eastern European Time|EET]]
|utc_offset=+2
|timezone_DST=[[Eastern European Summer Time|EEST]]
|utc_offset_DST=+3
|map_caption = Dospat (Bulgaria)|
|pushpin_map            =Bulgaria <!-- the name of a location map as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Location_map -->
|pushpin_label_position = <!-- the position of the pushpin label: left, right, top, bottom, none -->
|pushpin_map_caption    =Dospat
|pushpin_mapsize        =
|leader_title           =Mayor
|postal_code_type       =[[List of postal codes in Bulgaria|Postal Code]]
|
|
subdivision_name1=[[Smolyan Province|Smolyan]]|
population_total=2706|population_footnotes=|
population_as_of=13.09.2005|
elevation_m=1358|
postal_code=4830|
area_code=03045
|coordinates            = {{coord|41|39|N|24|10|E|display=inline}}
|leader_name=Krasimir Dolev|
}}

: HA!! [[Dospat|Dospat]] has been done!  <s>But why do the same coordinates come out in two different places, depending on which of two templates I'm using</s>??? - 03:18, 12 March 2008 (UTC), modified 02:02, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

: See [[Chech_%28region%29]] for another map, other ideas.



=== My map work ===
See '''advice,''' [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maps#Advice on this map.3F]] 18:16, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Current version: [[Image:Dospat_Reservoir_location.jpg|250px]]  16:59, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

== Table format ==
{| class=wikitable
|simple table
|}

{|
|-
| table without borders
|}

[[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table Help:Table]]

=== Sample: sortable table ===

Click on the little triangle-box to sort on that column.  [Click on another box to change the sort.  Only one level of sort - but what if you do first one then the second one, does it then sort within the sort?]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
!meas.<br />num.
!passed
!YES<br />votes
!NO<br />votes
!%<br />YES
!Const.<br />Amd.?
!description
|-
| 77
| NO
| 336,253
| 432,541
| 
| YES
| Makes Certain Local Taxing Districts' Temporary Property Tax Authority Permanent
|-
| 78
| style="background:blue;color:white" | YES
| 528,129
| 327,440
| 
| YES
| Lengthens Period For Verifying Signatures On Initiative And Referendum Petitions
|-
| 79
| NO
| 356,912
| 505,081
| 
| YES
| Increases Signatures Required To Place Initiative Amending Constitution On Ballot
|-
| 80
| NO
| 310,640
| 559,941
| 
| YES
| Authorizes Using Fuel Tax, Vehicle Fees For Increasing Highway Policing
|-
| 81
| NO
| 219,009
| 650,348
| 
| YES
| Allows Legislature To Limit Recovery Of Damages In Civil Actions
|-
| 82
| NO
| 109,741
| 767,329
| 
| NO
| Repeals Truck Weight--Mile Tax; Establishes And Increases Fuel Taxes
|}
-- [[User:Martha Forsyth|Martha]] 21:29, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

==  Б ==
(section moved to [[User:Martha Forsyth/Glossary work]]

== Message in colored box? ==
{{Wikibreak|message=This is called a "Wikibreak" - but does anything (including Good Sense) prevent using it for Other Purposes??  Well, it DOES come with the picture....
maybe I could learn how to make something ''like'' it?
| cats= | }} -- [[User:Martha Forsyth|Martha]] 22:29, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

: The angle brackets indicate that it's a "template." so go to [[:Template:Wikibreak]], and look at the code - that code gets "sucked into" your page when you include the brackets. -[[User:Peteforsyth|Pete]] 21:49, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

: Note: I added <nowiki>| cats= |</nowiki> so my page doesn't get added to "inactive Wikipedians", per the Template page.  (And, b'gosh, it WORKED, instantly!) -- [[User:Martha Forsyth|Martha]] 05:08, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

:: Another trick to seeing how templates work: use the word "subst" in the code, like this: <nowiki>{{subst:Wikibreak|message=blah}}</nowiki>. This will actually move the template's code into the page, instead of just "calling for it" every time somebody brings up the page. So after you save, you can click "edit" again and tinker around with the code. --- [[User:Peteforsyth|Pete]] ([[User talk:Peteforsyth|talk]]) 19:17, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

== Colored background/box, OR Colored page background ==
Peter contributed this:
<div style="background-color: #ECE5B6; padding: 0.5em; border: solid 1px black; -moz-border-radius: 8px;">
makes a background color, when put at the top of a page. Looks really cool on a talk page. No closing /div tag needed? Grabbed this from User:Valentinian.</div>
I added the closing tag, to get just a colored box (I hope!) -- Yup.  Now, the next trick is to....play with Background Colors!  Not tonight...  == [[User:Martha Forsyth|Martha]] 03:30, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

:I experimented with this tonight, and learned the following:
:* You can change the background color (see tags at [[Web-safe colors#X11 color names]]).
:*Adding a <nowiki></div></nowiki> tag at the end will give you a box with the background color specified (you can specify text color too. E.g., <nowiki>color:white</nowiki> (or other color).
:*The closing /div tag actually determines where the background and text color will end, so you can do things like this:

== experiment ==
<div style="background-color: lavender; color:indigo; padding: 0.5em; border: solid 1px black; -moz-border-radius: 8px;">Example

== end of experiment ==
</div>— [[User:Martha Forsyth|Martha]] ([[User talk:Martha Forsyth|talk]]) 05:23, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

== IMAGES ==

A picture, including alternate text:

[[Image:Wiki.png|This Wiki's logo]]

You can also put the image in a frame with a caption:
[[Image:Wiki.png|frame|This Wiki's logo]]

NOW....what determines the horizontal alignment?  Looks like:
:If it's in a line by itself, it's Left
:If it's at the end of a sentence/link, it's Right
BUT....it interrupts the following lines, headings, everything.  Hmmm.  This will need more study.<br>
: OK, template <nowiki>{{clear}}</nowiki> used below does the trick!

[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Images Help:Images]  18:44, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
{{clear}}  <!-- This template should prevent the box from interfering with the next heading. -->

== Show/Hide Box ==
{{collapse top|reason=Subproject members}}
Please sign in here if you would like to contribute!
*[[User:Katr67|Katr67]] 17:20, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
*[[User:Sprkee|Sprkee]] 17:57, 8 May 2007 (UTC) I'll keep working on political type people
* -[[User:Peteforsyth|Pete]] 23:12, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
{{hab}}

(Copied verbatim from another page, content not important here, just format.) -[[User:Martha Forsyth|Martha]] 18:20, 15 June 2007 (UTC)


Another example (I'm copying everything now because I don't understand all the details; I changed the background color "just to prove I can"):
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="text-align: left; border: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em;"
|-
! style="background-color: lightyellow" | {{{reason|Click "show" to reveal this collapsed section.}}}
|-
| style="border: solid 1px silver; padding: 8px; background-color: white;" |

<noinclude>

|}
Pete copied this from [[:Template:Hidden archive top]] for use with Wikiproject Oregon. Work in progress! (Use it with {{hab}} to end a collapsing section.)

The "heading" for the collapsed text can be changed with the <code><nowiki>reason=</nowiki></code> parameter which defaults to "This discussion has been archived. Please do not modify it."

Using [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon/People]] to test out this approach; if it works well, I'd like to incorporate it into other sub-projects, and ultimately [[WP:ORE]]. -[[User:Peteforsyth|Pete]] 21:33, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

</noinclude>

[PETER: I don't understand the "Use it with <nowiki>{{hab}}</nowiki>..." part - does that indicate that this has restricted use of some sort?]  -[[User:Martha Forsyth|Martha]]

: Good work finding the source code. I'll take a quick crack at trying to explain this, it actually involves a few "techy" things. First, there are two similar things called "magic words," and things called "templates." I'm unclear on the distinction, but essentially, when something is surrounded with two sets of curly braces, that means that it's feeding in a chunk of code from somewhere else. In this case, <nowiki>{{hab}}</nowiki> is originally meant to go with the <nowiki>{{hat}}</nowiki> template; I presume the "t" is short for "top," and the "b" is short for "bottom." All it does is put in a | followed by a } . Which is the code for the end of a table. So, you don't necessarily have to use <nowiki>{{hat}}</nowiki>, you just have to be sure you "end" the table. Which you can do manually with |}. Now, if you look at the source code for this comment, you'll see that I used a "trick" to make the curly braces show up, instead of doing what they're intended to do.
: Any of that make sense?
: Lemme give you a much simpler example of how a template might be used. Below this comment are the results of the <nowiki>{{uw-delete2}}</nowiki> template; it's used to quickly issue a warning to somebody who deletes a section out of an article for no apparent reason.

[[Image:Information.svg|25px]] Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia without giving a valid reason for the removal in the [[Help:Edit summary|edit summary]]. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been [[Help:Reverting|reverted]]. Please make use of the [[Wikipedia:Sandbox|sandbox]] if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you.<!-- Template:uw-delete2 -->

: Let me know if any of this helps, or just confuses matters more! -[[User:Peteforsyth|Pete]] 06:34, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

=== Martha's "Template" for her show/hide box ===
There's some tricky details to how to code this! so here's what I've come up with as a "template", 29 November 2008:

<nowiki><blockquote> is optional - I did it to inset the whole thing.</nowiki>
<blockquote>
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="text-align: left; border: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em;"
|-
! style="background-color: lightyellow" | {{{reason|Title of the show/hide box - "Show/Hide" will appear automatically, but may not show in the Preview.}}}
|-
| style="border: solid 1px silver; padding: 8px; background-color: white;" |

<noinclude>Here is where you enter the text you want to "show".<br>
REMEMBER to put it inside <nowiki><noinclude></noinclude> </nowiki>code!!</noinclude>
|}</blockquote>

==URLs in external links==

A [[Help:Link|link]] in external link style can be of the forms:
*''target'': <nowiki>http://meta.wikimedia.org/</nowiki> is rendered as http://meta.wikimedia.org/
*[ ''target'' ''label'' ], with a blank space in between: <nowiki> [http://meta.wikimedia.org/ wikimedia] </nowiki> gives [http://meta.wikimedia.org/ wikimedia] (see also [[Help:Piped link]]) 
*[ ''target'' ] - these are automatically labelled with serial numbers 1, 2, 3, ...:<nowiki> [http://meta.wikimedia.org/]</nowiki> gives [http://meta.wikimedia.org/]

The target is a URL which can start with "<nowiki>http://</nowiki>" or "<nowiki>ftp://</nowiki>"

==cool image!==

[[Image:Géode V 3 1.gif|center|cool doohickey]]

==Those big quotation marks; and citing a reference==

{{cquote|A flight of steps unequalled in magnificence, leads down the decivity to the shore and harbour<ref name = "pat7">Herlihy, p. 140, Quoting {{cite book
| last =Koch
| first =Charles
| authorlink =
| coauthors =
| year =1855
| title =The Crimea and Odessa: Journal of a tour
| publisher =
| location =London
| id =
}} p. 260.</ref> }}



==References==
<span style="color:darkred">The [<nowiki>{{reflist}}</nowiki> would normally come at the end of the page, where it "belongs" — this structure is screwy!]</span>
{{reflist}}

This is still fuzzy to me!  For example, where does <nowiki><ref name - "pat7"></nowiki> come from?
Maybe answers can be found at:  [[Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Complete_citations_in_a_.22References.22_section | Citing sources]].

: The name attribute is not required. You use it when you want to<ref name=peter>blabla</ref> use the same citation<ref name=peter/> multiple times.<ref name=peter/> Note that the quotation marks, though frequently used, are not required. The trailing slash on the subsequent reverences are very important -- VERY strange things happen if you leave it out! -[[User:Peteforsyth|Pete]] ([[User talk:Peteforsyth|talk]]) 02:07, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

===Footnotes===
Can be used for explanatory material, see [[Jane Austen]], where the order is:
: Notes
: References
: Bibliography
Here is a sample note, with the "Notes" section immediately following:

: ...wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth.<sup id="inlineb" class="reference">[[#noteb|[B]]]</sup>

==Notes==

<div class="references-small" style="-webkit-column-width:40em; -moz-column-width:40em; column-width:40em;">
<ol class="references" style="list-style-type:upper-alpha;">
<li id="notea">'''[[#inlinea|^]]''' blah-blah-blah, not copied here</li>
<li id="noteb">'''[[#inlineb|^]]''' These included the original versions of and revisions to the novels later published as ''Sense and Sensibility'', ''Pride and Prejudice'' and ''Northanger Abbey'', and a novel fragment, ''The Watsons''. <ref>Sutherland, "Chronology of Composition and Publication", ''Jane Austen in Context'', 13.</ref></li>
</ol>
</div>

==Interesting family tree format; and Legend (as Infobox)==
Copied from [[Herod the Great]]
<div class="monospaced">
 [[Antipater the Idumaean]] + [[Cypros]], ''Arab princess from [[Petra, Jordan]] in [[Nabatea]].''
                        |
     —————————————————————————————————————————————
    |              |            |        |        |
 [[Phasael]]    '''Herod the Great'''  Joseph  Pheroras  [[Salome I]]
           (74-4 BC)
{| class="infobox" style="font-size:70%;"
|+ '''Legend'''
! Sign  &  Meaning
|-
| + = married
|-
| <nowiki>|</nowiki> = descended from
|-
| ../——— = sibling
|-
| dt. = daughter
|-
| b. = born
|-
| d. = died
|-
| m. = was married to
|-
| ? = not included here or unknown
|}
 Alexandros + Alexandra
            |
       ———————————————————————————————————
      |                                   |
 [[Aristobulus III of Judea]]            [[Mariamne (second wife of Herod)|Mariamne]], dt.
 (d. 35 BC)                              ''m. '''Herod the Great'''''
 ''(last [[Hasmonean]] scion;''
 ''appointed high priest; drowned)''
</div>

==References==
{{Reflist}}