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Jnc: /* Content from Wikipedia */ List of articles which contain content from Wikipedia

2025-02-28T07:16:11Z

‎Content from Wikipedia: List of articles which contain content from Wikipedia

Jnc: /* Disambiguation pages */ Describe these

2025-02-13T11:03:00Z

‎Disambiguation pages: Describe these

Jnc: /* See also */ +Help:Basic MediaWiki Syntax - make it harder to miss

2024-11-17T21:32:15Z

‎See also: +Help:Basic MediaWiki Syntax - make it harder to miss

Jnc: /* Editing tips */ Clarify 'External links', 'Further reading', and 'See also' sections

2024-08-29T12:53:32Z

‎Editing tips: Clarify 'External links', 'Further reading', and 'See also' sections

Jnc: /* Editing tips */ Corral external links

2024-02-06T16:46:57Z

‎Editing tips: Corral external links

Jnc: /* Editing tips */ Please, no more orphans

2024-01-14T18:52:29Z

‎Editing tips: Please, no more orphans

Jnc: /* Categories */ Overview of the category structure is in Help:Categories

2024-01-14T01:36:32Z

‎Categories: Overview of the category structure is in Help:Categories

Jnc: /* Editing tips */ CHWiki uses MediaWiki

2023-08-24T11:30:05Z

‎Editing tips: CHWiki uses MediaWiki

Jnc: /* Categories */ Category redirects don't really work

2023-05-21T10:31:11Z

‎Categories: Category redirects don't really work

Jnc: /* Editing tips */ Please put a brief summary of each change in the 'Summary' box

2023-05-21T10:00:30Z

‎Editing tips: Please put a brief summary of each change in the 'Summary' box

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 If you include any content from Wikipedia, according to Wikipedia's [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ content license], you '''''must''''' give credit; a link to the source article will do.
-To make this easy, a [[Template:Wikipedia|template]] for use on Wikipedia-sourced articles has been created; just add <i><nowiki>{{Wikipedia}}</nowiki></i> to the bottom of the article here. Ideally, one should give the name of the source article; this can be included as an argument, e.g. <i><nowiki>{{Wikipedia|Foo}}</nowiki></i> if you're using material from the 'Foo' article.
+To make this easy, a [[Template:Wikipedia|template]] for use on Wikipedia-sourced articles has been created; just add <i><nowiki>{{Wikipedia}}</nowiki></i> to the bottom of the article here. Ideally, one should give the name of the source article; this can be included as an argument, e.g. <i><nowiki>{{Wikipedia|Foo}}</nowiki></i> if you're using material from the 'Foo' article. Articles which contain content from Wikipedia are listed [[:Category:Wikipedia Content|here]].
 ''Note:'' if the source article name includes any spaces (' '), they must be replaced with underscores ('_') in the argument, in order for this template to work correctly.

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	Please try to add the appropriate Category (a way of tagging articles so they can be grouped together) to your articles, so that they can be easily found in the mass of articles. Note that the advice above about article names applies equally to categories (except for redirects; category redirects don't really work). The basics of categories are explained in [[Help:Introduction to Categories]]; an overview of the category structure of the CHWiki is in [[Help:Categories]].		Please try to add the appropriate Category (a way of tagging articles so they can be grouped together) to your articles, so that they can be easily found in the mass of articles. Note that the advice above about article names applies equally to categories (except for redirects; category redirects don't really work). The basics of categories are explained in [[Help:Introduction to Categories]]; an overview of the category structure of the CHWiki is in [[Help:Categories]].
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		+	===Disambiguation pages===
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		+	For article names which might plausibly refer to several different distinct topics (each of which has an article) - e.g. '[[refresh]]', which might refer to either [[memory refresh]] or [[display refresh]] - the usual response on the CHWiki is to provide a 'disambiguation page'. This is a short page, at the ambiguous name, which simply lists the alternatives, and links to them (see the preceding example).
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		+	All such pages should be tagged, at the bottom, with the template '<nowiki>{{disambiguation}}</nowiki>'; this adds some explanatory text, and allows us to [[:Category:Disambiguation pages\|keep track of them all]]. Links which lead to disambiguation pages should normally be changed to point directly to the intended article.
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		+	A list of otherwise-unlinked-to disambiguation pages is kept in [[Help:Disambiguation pages]], so they don't show up in [[Special:LonelyPages\|Orphaned pages]].

	==Copyright and licensing==		==Copyright and licensing==

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	==See also==		==See also==

		+	* [[Help:Basic MediaWiki Syntax]]
	* [[Help:Introduction to Redirects]]		* [[Help:Introduction to Redirects]]

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 ''Please'' put a brief summary of what you've done in the change in the 'Summary' box, so that when looking at the history later, people will be able to get a rough sense of what was done, without needing to click on the 'prev' link of that revision.
-We generally use the style guidelines of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style Wikipedia Manual of Style], but we're not as formal (e.g. we tend not to footnote sources in detail).
+We generally use the style guidelines of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style Wikipedia Manual of Style], but we're not as formal (e.g. we tend not to footnote sources in detail). Wikipedia style, which we generally follow, is to:
-Wikipedia style, which we generally follow, is to corral external links to an 'External links' section at the bottom of an article, instead of including them in the body of the text.
+* corral '''''all''''' external links to an 'External links' section at the bottom of an article, instead of including them in the body of the text;
-If you create a new article, please check first if it might already exist, but worded, capitalized, hyphenated, etc, differently. Remember that article names are case-sensitive, but that the MediaWiki system always capitalizes the first letter of the article, no matter how it's linked.
+If you create a new article, please check first if it might already exist, but worded, capitalized, hyphenated, etc, differently. Remember that article names are case-sensitive, but that the MediaWiki system always capitalizes the first letter of the article, no matter how it's linked. To make it easier to find an existing article - and, even more importantly, to help prevent creation of duplicate articles - it's a good idea to provide lots of [[Help:Introduction to Redirects|redirects]], from all the variant names you can think of.
-To make it easier to find an existing article - and, even more importantly, to help prevent creation of duplicate articles - it's a good idea to provide lots of [[Help:Introduction to Redirects|redirects]] from all the variant names you can think of.
+If you have created a new article, try to find an existing article that would naturally/normally link to it, and add a link to your new article to that one (you may need to create a 'See also' section to hold the link). That is because ''you'' may know of your new article, but other readers of the CHWiki may not find out about it, unless they do some digging - which many will not. We already have lots of the [[Special:LonelyPages|'orphan' articles]] - please don't add one more!
 ===Talk: pages===

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	We generally use the style guidelines of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style Wikipedia Manual of Style], but we're not as formal (e.g. we tend not to footnote sources in detail).		We generally use the style guidelines of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style Wikipedia Manual of Style], but we're not as formal (e.g. we tend not to footnote sources in detail).
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		+	Wikipedia style, which we generally follow, is to corral external links to an 'External links' section at the bottom of an article, instead of including them in the body of the text.

	If you create a new article, please check first if it might already exist, but worded, capitalized, hyphenated, etc, differently. Remember that article names are case-sensitive, but that the MediaWiki system always capitalizes the first letter of the article, no matter how it's linked.		If you create a new article, please check first if it might already exist, but worded, capitalized, hyphenated, etc, differently. Remember that article names are case-sensitive, but that the MediaWiki system always capitalizes the first letter of the article, no matter how it's linked.

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	To make it easier to find an existing article - and, even more importantly, to help prevent creation of duplicate articles - it's a good idea to provide lots of [[Help:Introduction to Redirects\|redirects]] from all the variant names you can think of.		To make it easier to find an existing article - and, even more importantly, to help prevent creation of duplicate articles - it's a good idea to provide lots of [[Help:Introduction to Redirects\|redirects]] from all the variant names you can think of.
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		+	If you have created a new article, try to find an existing article that would naturally/normally link to it, and add a link to your new article to that one (you may need to create a 'See also' section, at the bottom, to hold the link). That is because ''you'' may know of your new article, but other readers of the CHWiki may not find out about it, unless they do some digging - which many will not. We already have lots of the [[Special:LonelyPages\|'orphan' articles]] - please don't add one more!

	===Talk: pages===		===Talk: pages===

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 ===Categories===
-Please try to add the appropriate Category (a way of tagging articles so they can be grouped together) to your articles, so that they can be easily found in the mass of articles. Note that the advice above about article names applies equally to categories (except for redirects; category redirects don't really work). Categories are explained in [[Help:Introduction to Categories]].
+Please try to add the appropriate Category (a way of tagging articles so they can be grouped together) to your articles, so that they can be easily found in the mass of articles. Note that the advice above about article names applies equally to categories (except for redirects; category redirects don't really work). The basics of categories are explained in [[Help:Introduction to Categories]]; an overview of the category structure of the CHWiki is in [[Help:Categories]].
 ==Copyright and licensing==

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 ===Editing tips===
-If you're not familiar with MediaWiki [[syntax]], and you want to do something that's not obvious (from looking at the existing article [[source]]), please read up on it; there's a very handy cheat sheet [[Help:Basic MediaWiki Syntax|here]].
+The CHWiki uses MediaWiki; if you're not familiar with MediaWiki [[syntax]], and you want to do something that's not obvious (from looking at the existing article [[source]]), please read up on it; there's a very handy cheat sheet [[Help:Basic MediaWiki Syntax|here]].
 Use of the 'Show preview' button allows you to see how your formatting will look without filling the article history with a lot of minor updates.