User:DragonHawk/QuickRef

This is page is essentially a combination bookmark file/post-it note. It's a list of stuff I can never remember or find and have to hunt for, every time I need it.

General magic

Templatre doc syntax

From Wikipedia:Template documentation

Template page

[--last line of template code--]<noinclude>
 {{Documentation}}
 <!-- PLEASE ADD CATEGORIES AND INTERWIKIS TO THE /doc SUBPAGE, THANKS -->
 </noinclude>

Doc subpage

{{Documentation subpage}}
<!-- PLEASE ADD CATEGORIES AND INTERWIKIS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE -->
==Usage==
Blah blah blah docs here.

<includeonly><!-- CATEGORIES AND INTERWIKIS HERE, THANKS -->

</includeonly>

dab templates

{{otheruses4|1=this description|2=other description|3=other page}}

Table syntax

Wiki text

{| class="wikitable sortable" 
|+ caption
! head1
! head2
! head3
|-
| R1 C1
| R1 C2
| R1 C3
|-
| R2 C1
| R2 C2
| R2 C3
|-
| R3 C1
| R3 C2
| R3 C3
|}

Renders as

caption
head1	head2	head3
R1 C1	R1 C2	R1 C3
R2 C1	R2 C2	R2 C3
R3 C1	R3 C2	R3 C3

Talk page auto archive magic

Archiver instructions • Indexer instructions

Place the following in the intro section of the talk page. If TOC needs to be explicitly placed, place it after any small boxes.


{| class="messagebox small-talk" style="width: {{{box-width|238px}}}"
|Note: It may take 24 hours or longer before archives and index become active.
|}

{{User:HBC Archive Indexerbot/OptIn
|target=Wikipedia talk:CHANGEME/Archive index
|mask=Wikipedia talk:CHANGEME/Archive <#>
|leading_zeros=0
|indexhere=yes
}}

{{User:MiszaBot/config
|archiveheader = {{atnhead}}
|maxarchivesize = 50K
|counter = 5
|algo = old(30d)
|archive = Wikipedia talk:CHANGEME/Archive %(counter)d
}}

{{AutoArchivingNotice
|small=yes
|age=30
|index=./Archive index
|bot=MiszaBot II
}}

{{archives
|small=yes
|index=/Archive index
}}

Initialize the index subpage (redlink) with the following:

<!-- HBC Archive Indexerbot can blank this -->
{{notice|This page will be replaced with an index the next time [[User:HBC Archive Indexerbot|]] runs.  That may take 24 hours or longer.}}