Help:Editing pages
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noinclude/noinclude Easy editing of pages is what wikis are made for. It only takes a few clicks.
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Editing new pages
If the page you wish to edit does not exist yet, see Help:Starting a new page
Editing existing pages
- Click the edit page tab
- Make changes to the text in the edit box. Make sure you write clearly and concisely, and make sure your edit does something to improve the page. If you're making normal changes to the text like fixing spelling mistakes or grammar, inserting new sentences, etc, then you don't have to worry too much about formatting. When you do need to use some type of formatting, you do it using wiki syntax, see Help:Formatting for some of the common types of formatting used.
- Optionally, enter a short note in the Summary box describing your changes.
- Optionally preview your changes with the Preview button.
- Click the Save page button.
- One can rename pages as well See Help:Moving_a_page
Discussion
Every article has its own discussion page where you can ask questions, make suggestions, or discuss corrections. Click the discussion page tab to reach it. You can sign your message by writing 4 tildes (nowiki~~~~/nowiki). The wiki software turns them into the current time and your username or your current IP address if you are not logged in.
External Links
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Syntax
nowikiPageName/nowiki
- PageName (optional) - the name of the page to display language links for. If omitted then the English version of the current page is used. This parameter can normally be omitted, as it is only required if you want to link to a page other than the one you place the template on, which is very uncommon. If this parameter is used on a sub-page make sure you supply the root name, not the full page name (e.g. on MediaWiki/fr you would need to use codenowikiMediaWiki/nowiki/code and not codenowikiMediaWiki/fr/nowiki/code).
Usage
The template should only be placed on pages that exist in more than one language, and it should be placed in the same location on each translation of the page.
The English version of a page is always the main version, with all other languages as sub-pages, named using the appropriate language code (see below).
For example, on the Main Page you would include the text codenowiki{{{Languages}}}/nowiki/code, both on Main Page itself, and on each of its language sub-pages. The template automatically creates links to any language sub-pages that exist, e.g. ttMain Page/jatt, ttMain Page/fr/tt, and ignores non-existant languages.
See Project:Language policy for further details about translating pages.
Supported languages
This shows you the name of each language's sub-page (using Main Page as an example). Other languages may be added easily as necessary. Please use the appropriate prefix, as used on Wikipedia when adding a new language. Please do not add languages for which no pages exist yet, as this will increase the time needed to include the template without adding any benefit (languages are only displayed to the user when the relevant page exists).
The link on the language names goes to the Wikipedia in that language. If no Wikipedia in your language exists, do not add pages in that language to MediaWiki.org! This wiki is not the place for language advocacy - please go through the correct channels, and once your language has a Wikipedia then please return to add content here.
| Page Name | Language |
|---|---|
| Main Page | English |
| Main Page/br | Breton |
| Main Page/de | German |
| Main Page/es | Spanish |
| Main Page/fi | Finnish |
| Main Page/fr | French |
| Main Page/it | Italian |
| Main Page/id | Indonesian |
| Main Page/he | Hebrew |
| Main Page/ja | Japanese |
| Main Page/ko | Korean |
| Main Page/no | Norwegian |
| Main Page/pl | Polish |
| Main Page/pt | Portugese |
| Main Page/ru | Russian |
| Main Page/sq | Albanian |
| Main Page/yue | Cantonese |
| Main Page/zh | Chinese |
| Main Page/zh-hans | Chinese (Simplified) |
| Main Page/zh-hant | Chinese (Traditional) |
Example
Here is how the language bar looks on the MediaWiki page: Template loop detected: Template:Languages
