Wikibooks Editing Quick Reference

Wikibooks Editing Quick Reference

General Editing Tools Toolbar

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Signature and Timestamp (used for collaborative discussion purposes)

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Link

Embedded File

Reference(see also below)

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Heading Levels (The page name is set to Level 1 automatically)

Level 2 – two ‘=’ symbols inserted before and after text; highest level heading within a wiki page

Level 3 – three ‘=’ symbols inserted before and after text

Level 4 – four ‘=’ symbols inserted before and after text

Level 5 – five ‘=’ symbols inserted before and after text

Text Type is used to highlight text within a text box that extends across the page:

syntaxhighlightlang="apache">

Section

</syntaxhighlight

Bullets and Numbering:

* Bulleted list item

# Numbered list item

‘Big’ (+) and ‘Small’ (-) text sizing

Note: these tags may be applied multiple times to the same text – each application makes the text another size bigger/smaller.

<big>* Bulleted list itembr />

<big># Numbered list item</big</big>

Superscript/Subscript formatting

Picture Gallery supports multiple image display:

<gallery>

[Filename|Caption]

Requirement Attributes.png|Commonly used Requirements Attributes

ChangeRequestAttributes.jpg|Attributes For Managing Changes

</gallery>

Redirect reader to another page on the Wikibook:

#REDIRECT [[Business_Analysis_Guidebook/Introduction]]

Table adds a table to the page; specify whether to include a Header row, display of borders, the ability to sort the columns, and the number of rows and columns.

{| class="wikitable sortable"

|-

! Header text !! Header text !! Header text

|-

| Example || Example || Example

|-

| Example || Example || Example

|-

| Example || Example || Example

|}

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Source References: Insert references into the text in the Wikibook Edit pane where they apply. The reference will automatically generate, within the text, a superscript link to the References section at the bottom of the page.

Include this section at the end of the page when editing:

==References==

{{Reflist}}-Generates a references list according to <ref>, </ref> tags in body of page.

{{BookCat}}-Includes the Wikibook category at the end of the references section.

General Toolbar Reference Button Syntax:

<ref>free-text – will be included in References section of page</ref>

Horizontal Format:

<ref>{{cite web|url=URL address|title=Title of article|publisher= Publisher web site|accessdate=Date Retrieved}}</ref>

Verticle Format:

<ref>{{cite web|url=URL address

|title=Title of article

|publisher= Publisher web site

|accessdate=Date Retrieved}}</ref>

Common Cite Template Attributes: (Required attributes displayed in green font below)

Web Site Cites:

<ref>{{cite web |url= |title= |accessdate= |accessmonthday= |accessdaymonth = |accessyear= |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher= |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref>

Book Cites:

<ref>{{cite book |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= |year= |publisher= |location= |id= }}</ref>

Journal Cites:

<ref>{{cite journal |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |year= |month= |title= |journal= |volume= |issue= |pages= |id= |url= |accessdate= |quote= }}</ref>

News Cites:

<ref>{{cite news |title= |author= |url= |newspaper= |date= |accessdate=}}</ref>

More information – Cite Template Atributes:

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