How to edit in a wiki

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Cityriskpedia is a wiki, meaning that anyone can easily edit any unprotected page, and save those changes immediately to that page, making the alterations visible to every other reader.

Tip: Using the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor is easier for Cityriskpedia editors just starting out. Nowadays, several WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors are available for creating web pages. With these editors it is possible to create good looking pages simply by dragging and dropping objects on the page, without any HTML knowledge. They come with a lot of menu options. If you are familiar with windows objects or windows based software, you can create a wiki page in no time.

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Introduction

Editing most Cityriskpedia pages is easy. Simply click on the "edit this page" tab at the top of a Cityriskpedia page (or on a section-edit link). This will bring you to a new page with a text box containing the editable text of the original page. If you add information to a page, please provide references, as unreferenced facts are subject to removal. When you are finished with an edit, you should write a short edit summary in the small field below the edit-box. You may use shorthand to describe your changes, as described in the legend.

  • To see how the page looks with your edits, press the "Show preview" button.
  • To see the differences between the page with your edits and the previous version of the page, press the "Show changes" button.
  • If you're satisfied with what you see, be bold and press the "Save page" button. Your changes will immediately be visible to all Wikipedia users.

Image:Edit Summary Pic Help File.jpg

You can also click on the "Discussion" tab to see the corresponding talk page, which contains comments about the page from other Cityriskpedia users. Click on the "new section" tab to start a new section, or edit the page in the same way as an article page.

You should also remember to sign your messages on talk pages and some special-purpose project pages with four tildes (~) but you should not sign edits you make to regular articles. In page history, the MediaWiki software automatically keeps track of which user makes each change.

Minor edits

A check to the "minor edit" box signifies that only superficial differences exist between the version with your edit and the previous version: typo corrections, formatting and presentational changes, rearranging of text without modifying content, etc. A minor edit is a version that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. The "minor edit" option is one of several options available only to registered users.

Major edits

All editors are encouraged to be bold, but there are several things that a user can do to ensure that major edits are performed smoothly. Before engaging in a major edit, a user should consider discussing proposed changes on the article discussion/talk page. During the edit, if doing so over an extended period, the Template:Inuse tag can reduce the likelihood of an edit conflict. Once the edit has been completed, the inclusion of an edit summary will assist in documenting the changes. These steps will all help to ensure that major edits are well received by the Wikipedia community.

A major edit should be reviewed to confirm that it is consensual to all concerned editors. Therefore, any change that affects the meaning of an article is major (not minor), even if the edit is a single word.

There are no necessary terms to which you have to agree when doing major edits, but the recommendations above have become best practice. If you do it your own way, the likelihood of your edits being reedited may be higher.

Wiki markup

The wiki markup is the syntax system you can use to format a Cityriskpedia page; please see Editing for details on it, and Wikitext examples for a longer list of the possibilities of Wikitext

Links and URLs

What It Looks Like What You Type
A link to another Wiki article.
  1. Example:London Has Public Transport
  2. Internally, the first letter of the target page is automatically capitalized and spaces are represented as underscores (typing an underscore in the link has the same effect as typing a space, but is not recommended).
  3. Thus the link above is to the URL en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_transport, which is the Wikipedia article with the name "Public transport". See also Canonicalization. 
              London has [[public transport]].
Renamed Article
  • Example: San Francisco also has

public transportation.

  1. Same target, different name.
  2. The target ("piped") text must be placed first, then the text to be displayed, second. 
          San Francisco also has
         [[public transport|public transportation]].
Blend Link


Examples include buses, taxicabs, and trams.

  1. Endings are blended into the link.
  2. Exception: a trailing apostrophe (') and any characters following the apostrophe are not blended.
  3. Preferred style is to use this instead of a piped link, if possible.
  4. Blending can be suppressed by using tags, which may be desirable in some instances. Example: a micro-second 
San Francisco also has
[[public transport]]ation.

Examples include [[bus]]es,
 [[taxicab]]s, and [[tram]]s.

a [[micro-]]second
Other page link


*See the

Wikipedia:Manual of Style.

A link to another namespace. 

   See the 
   [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style]].
Section Page Link

is a link to a section within another page.

#Links and URLs is a link to another section on the current page.

Italics is a piped link to a section within another page.

  1. The part after the number sign (#) must match a section heading on the page. Matches must be exact in terms of spelling, case, and punctuation. Links to non-existent sections are not broken; they are treated as links to the top of the page.
  2. Include "| link title" to create a stylish (piped) link title. 
      [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Italics]] 
      is a link to a section within another page.
     [[#Links and URLs]] is a link to another section on the current page.
     [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Italics|Italics]] 
     is a piped link to a section within another page.
Renamed Link
  • Automatically hide stuff

in parentheses: kingdom.

Automatically hide namespace: Village pump.

Or both: [[Wikipedia: Manual of Style (headings)|]] But not: [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Links|]]

  1. The server fills in the part after the pipe character (|) when you save the page. The next time you open the edit box you will see the expanded piped link. When previewing your edits, you will not see the expanded form until you press Save and Edit again. The same applies to links to sections within the same page (see previous entry).
  2. See Pipe trick for details 
            Automatically hide stuff
            in parentheses: [[kingdom (biology)|]].
  
            Automatically hide namespace: 
            [[Wikipedia:Village pump|]].

            Or both:
            [[Wikipedia:
            Manual of Style (headings)|]]

            But not:
            [[Wikipedia:
            Manual of Style#Links|]]
Create A Page Link

is a page that does not exist yet.

  • You can create it by clicking on the link.
  • To create a new page:
  1. A) Create a link to it on some other (related) page.
  2. B)Save that page.
  3. C)Click on the link you just made. The new page will open for editing.
  • For more information, see starting an article and check out Wikipedia's naming conventions.
  • Please do not create a new article without linking to it from at least one other article. 
   
    [[National sarcasm society]]
    is a page that does not exist yet.
Navigation Links
  • Wikipedia:How to edit a page is a link to this page.
  • Self links appear as bold text when the article is viewed.
  • Do not use this technique to make the article name bold in the first paragraph; see Article titles. 
[[Wikipedia:How to edit a page]]
is a link to this page.
Signing comments
  • The character tilde (~) is used when adding a comment to a Talk page.
  • You should sign your comment by appending four tildes (Zeidanamanda 10:44, 20 April 2009 (UTC)) to the comment so as to add your user name plus date/time:
  • Patricia Zhang 13:40, Jan 14, 2007 (UTC)
  • Adding three tildes (Zeidanamanda) will add just your user name:
  • Patricia Zhang

and adding five tildes (10:44, 20 April 2009 (UTC)) gives the date/time alone:

13:40, Jan 14, 2007 (UTC)

  • The first two both provide a link to your user page. 

      1)The character '''tilde''' (~) is used 
      when adding a comment to a Talk page. 
      2)You should sign your comment by 
      appending four tildes (~~~~)
      to the comment so as to add your 
      user name plus date/time:
      : ~~~~
      3)Adding three tildes (~~~) will add just your user name:
      : ~~~
      4) and adding five tildes (~~~~~) gives 
      the date/time alone:
      : ~~~~~
Redirects
  • Redirect one article title to another by placing a directive like the one shown to the right on the first line of the article (such as at a page titled "USA").
  • It is possible to redirect to a section. For example, a redirect to United States#History will redirect to the History section of the United States page, if it exists. 
 
#REDIRECT [[United States]]
#REDIRECT [[United States#History]] will redirect to the [[United States]] page, to the History section, if it exists
Wikimedia link To connect, via interwiki link, to a page on the same subject in another language, put a link of the form: language code:Title near the bottom of the article. For example, in article "Plankton", which is available on a lot of other wikis, the interwiki link to the German Wikipedia looks like:

de:Plankton where the "de" is the language-code for "Deutsch" (the German language).

It is recommended interwiki links be placed at the very end of the article. Interwiki links are not visible within the formatted article but, instead, appear as language links on the extreme left-margin column of a Wikipedia page (under menu section "languages"). Please see Interlanguage links and the Complete list of language wikis available. 

[[de:Plankton]] [[es:Plancton]] [[ru:Планктон]] [[simple:Plankton]]
Linked and why What links here and Related changes pages can be linked as:

Special: Whatlinkshere/Wikipedia: How to edit a page and Special: Recentchangeslinked/Wikipedia: How to edit a page 

'''What links here''' and '''Related changes''' pages can be linked as:
[[Special: WhatLinkshere/Wikipedia: How to edit a page]] and
[[Special: RecentChangeslinked/ Wikipedia: How to edit a page]]
User edits A user's Contributions page can be linked as: Special:Contributions/UserName or Special:Contributions/192.0.2.0 
A user's '''Contributions''' page can be linked as: [[Special:Contributions/UserName]] or [[Special:Contributions/192.0.2.0]]
External links Three ways to link to external (non-wiki) sources:
  • Bare URL: http://www.wikipedia.org/ (bad style)
  • Unnamed link: [1] (only used within article body for footnotes)
  • Named link: Wikipedia

See meta:interwiki map for the list of shortcuts.

  • Square brackets indicate an external link. Note the use of a space (not a pipe) to separate the URL from the link text in the "named" version.
  • In the URL, all symbols must be among:

A-Z a-z 0-9 . _ \ / ~ % - + & # ? ! = ( ) @

  • If a URL contains a character not in this list, it should be encoded by using a percent sign (%) followed by the hex code of the character, which can be found in the table of ASCII printable characters. For example, the caret character (^) would be encoded in a URL as %5E.
  • If the "named" version contains a closing square bracket "]", then you must use the HTML special character syntax, i.e. ] otherwise the MediaWiki software will prematurely interpret this as the end of the external link.
  • There is a class that can be used to remove the arrow image from the external link. It is used in Template:Ref to stop the URL from expanding during printing. It should never be used in the main body of an article. However, there is an exception: wikilinks in Image markup. An example of the markup is as follows:

Markup: ntw2k/freeware/winobj.shtml WinObj Display: WinObj

  • See External links for style issues 
Three ways to link to external (non-wiki) sources:
# Bare URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/ (bad style)
# Unnamed link: [http://en.wikipedia.org/] (only used within article body for footnotes)
# Named link: [http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]
Media link Sound
  • To include links to non image uploads such as sounds, use a "media" link. For images, see next section.

Some uploaded sounds are listed at Commons:Sound. 

 [[media:Classical guitar scale.ogg|Sound]]
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