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| It's very easy to edit a [[MediaWiki]] page. Simply click on the "'''Edit this page'''" link at the top or bottom (also on the sidebar) of a Wiki page to change the page itself, or click on "'''Discuss this page'''" link and then on "Edit this page" to write on the corresponding [[MediaWiki User's Guide: Talk pages|talk page]]. This will bring you to a page with a text box containing the editable text of that Wiki page.
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| Then type away, write a short [[MediaWiki User's Guide: Edit summary|edit summary]] on the small field below the edit-box and when finished press "Save"! You can also preview your changes before saving if you like. Depending on your system, pressing Enter while the edit box is not active (there is no typing cursor in it) may have the same effect as pressing Save.
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| It is often more convenient to copy and paste the text first into your favorite [[en:text editor|text editor]], edit and spell check there, and then paste back into your [[en:web browser|web browser]] to preview. This way, you can also keep a local backup copy of the pages you authored so that you can make changes offline.
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| == Minor edits ==
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| When editing a page, a [[MediaWiki User's Guide: Logging-in|logged-in]] user has the option of flagging the edit as a "minor edit". When to use this is somewhat a matter of personal preference. The rule of thumb is that an edit of a page that is spelling corrections, formatting, and minor rearranging of text should be flagged as a "minor edit". A major edit is basically something that makes the entry worth relooking at for somebody who wants to watch the article rather closely, so any "real" change, even if it is a single word. This feature is important, because users can choose to ''hide'' minor edits in their view of the [[MediaWiki User's Guide: The Recent Changes page | Recent Changes page]], to keep the volume of edits down to a manageable level.
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| The reason for not allowing a user who is not logged in to mark an edit as minor is that vandalism could then be marked as a minor edit, in which case it would stay unnoticed longer. This limitation is another reason to log in.
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| == The wiki markup ==
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| In the left column of the table below, you can see what effects are possible. In the right column, you can see how those effects were achieved. In other words, to make text look like it looks in the left column, type it in the format you see in the right column.
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| You may want to keep this page open in a separate browser window for reference. If you want to try out things without danger of doing any harm, you can do so in the [[Sandbox]].
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| === Sections, paragraphs, lists and lines ===
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| <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
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| <tr>
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| <th>What it looks like</th>
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| <th>What you type</th>
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| </tr>
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| <tr>
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| <td>
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| Start your sections with header lines:
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| <!-- This is the original
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| == New section ==
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| === Subsection ===
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| ==== Sub-subsection ====
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| <!-- If this doesn't work, try the next set -->
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| <h2> New section </h2>
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| <h3> Subsection </h3>
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| <h4> Sub-subsection </h4>
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| <!-- -->
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| <!-- Try this set if the previous set doesn't work.
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| <br><br><b><font style="font-size:120%"> New section </font></b><br>
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| <br><br><b><font style="font-size:110%"> Subsection </font></b><br>
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| <br><br><b><font style="font-size:100%"> Sub-subsection </font></b><br>
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| -->
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>
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| == New section ==
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| === Subsection ===
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| ==== Sub-subsection ====
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| </nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr>
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| <td>
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| A single [[en:newline|newline]]
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| has no effect on the layout.
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| These can be used to separate
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| sentences within a paragraph.
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| Some editors find that this aids editing
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| and improves the ''diff'' function.
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| But an empty line
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| starts a new paragraph.
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| </td>
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| <td>
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| <pre><nowiki>A single [[en:newline|newline]]
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| has no effect on the layout.
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| These can be used to separate
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| sentences within a paragraph.
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| Some editors find that this aids editing
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| and improves the ''diff'' function.
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| But an empty line
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| starts a new paragraph.</nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr valign="top"><td>You can break lines<br>
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| without starting a new paragraph.</td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>You can break lines<br>
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| without starting a new paragraph.</nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr>
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| <td>
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| * Lists are easy to do:
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| ** start every line with a star
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| ** more stars means deeper levels
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>* Lists are easy to do:
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| ** start every line with a star
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| ** more stars means deeper levels
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| </nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr>
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| <td>
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| # Numbered lists are also good | |
| ## very organized
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| ## easy to follow
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki># Numbered lists are also good
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| ## very organized
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| ## easy to follow</nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr>
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| <td>
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| * You can even do mixed lists
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| *# and nest them
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| *#* like this
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>* You can even do mixed lists
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| *# and nest them
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| *#* like this</nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr>
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| <td>
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| ; Definition list : list of definitions
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| ; item : the item's definition
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>; Definition list : list
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| of definitions
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| ; item : the item's definition</nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr>
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| <td>
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| : A colon indents a line or paragraph.
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| A manual newline starts a new paragraph.
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| * This is primarily for displayed material, but is also used for discussion on [[MediaWiki User's Guide: Talk pages|Talk page]]s.
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>: A colon indents a line or paragraph.
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| A manual newline starts a new paragraph.
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| </nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr valign=top>
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| <td>
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| <pre><nowiki>IF a line starts with a space THEN
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| it will be formatted exactly
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| as typed;
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| in a fixed-width font;
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| lines won't wrap;
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| ENDIF
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| this is useful for:
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| * pasting preformatted text;
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| * algorithm descriptions;
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| * program source code
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| * ascii art;</nowiki></pre>
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| WARNING If you make it wide,
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| you [[en:page widening|force the whole page to be wide]] and
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| hence less readable. Never start ordinary lines with spaces.
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki> IF a line starts with a space THEN
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| it will be formatted exactly
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| as typed;
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| in a fixed-width font;
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| lines won't wrap;
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| ENDIF
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| this is useful for:
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| * pasting preformatted text;
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| * algorithm descriptions;
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| * program source code
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| * ascii art;</nowiki></pre></td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr valign="top"><td><center>Centered text.</center>
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki><center>Centered text.</center></nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr>
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| <td>A [[en:horizontal dividing line|horizontal dividing line]]: above
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| ----
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| and below.
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| Mainly useful for separating threads on Talk pages.
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>A horizontal dividing line: above
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| ----
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| and below. </nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| </table>
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| == Links, URLs, images ==
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| <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
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| <tr>
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| <th>What it looks like</th>
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| <th>What you type</th>
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| </tr>
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| <tr valign="top"><td>Sue is reading the [[video policy]].
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| *First letter of target is automatically capitalized.
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| *Internally spaces are automatically represented as underscores (typing an underscore has the same effect as typing a space, but is not recommended).
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| Thus the link above is to <nowiki>http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_policy</nowiki>, which is the page with the name "Video policy".
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>Sue is reading the [[video policy]].</nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr><td>
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| Link to a section on a page, e.g.
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| [[List_of_cities_by_country#Morocco]] (links to non-existent sections aren't really broken, they are treated as links to the page, i.e. to the top)</td><td>
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| <nowiki>[[List_of_cities_by_country#Morocco]]</nowiki></td>.
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| </tr>
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| <tr valign="top"><td>Same target, different name ("[[en:piped link|piped link]]"): [[User:Larry Sanger|answers]].
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>Same target, different name:
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| [[User:Larry Sanger|answers]]</nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr valign="top">
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| <td>Endings are blended into the link: [[test]]ing, [[gene]]s
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| </td>
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| <td>
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| <pre><nowiki>Endings are blended
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| into the link: [[test]]ing, [[gene]]s</nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr valign="top">
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| <td>
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| Automatically hide stuff in parentheses: [[kingdom (biology)|kingdom]].
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| <p>Automatically hide namespace: [[Wikipedia:Village pump|Village pump]].
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| <p>The server fills in the part after the | when you save the page. Next time you open the edit box you will see the expanded piped link. A preview interprets the abbreviated form correctly, but does not expand it yet in the edit box. Press Save and again Edit, and you will see the expanded version. The same applies for the following feature.
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| </td>
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| <td>
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| <pre><nowiki>Automatically hide stuff in parentheses:
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| [[kingdom (biology)|]]. </nowiki></pre>
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| <pre><nowiki>Automatically hide namespace:
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| [[Wikipedia:Village pump|]].</nowiki></pre>
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| </td></tr>
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| <tr>
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| <td>When adding a comment to a Talk page,
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| you should sign it. You can do this by
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| adding three tildes for your user name:
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| : [[User:Karl Wick|Karl Wick]]
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| or four for user name plus date/time:
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| : [[User:Karl Wick|Karl Wick]] 08:10 Oct 5, 2002 (UTC)</td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>When adding a comment to a Talk page,
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| you should sign it. You can do this by
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| adding three tildes for your user name:
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| : ~~~
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| or four for user name plus date/time:
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| : ~~~~</nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr valign="top"><td>[[The weather in London]] is a page that doesn't
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| *You can create it by clicking on the link.
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| *To create a new page:
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| *#Create a link to it on some other page.
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| *#Save that page.
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| *#Click on the link you just made. The new page will open for editing.
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| *Have a look at [[MediaWiki User's Guide: Starting a new page|how to start a page]] guide and the naming conventions page for your project.
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| *After creating a page, search for its title and make sure that everyone correctly links to it.
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>[[The weather in London]] is a page
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| that doesn't exist yet.</nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr valign="top"><td>
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| [[MediaWiki User's Guide: Using redirects|Redirect]] one article title to another by putting text like this in its first line.
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[United States]]</nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr valign="top"><td>
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| For a special way to link to the page on the same subject in another language or on another wiki, see [[MediaWiki User's Guide: Interwiki linking]].
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| </td>
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| <td> </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr valign="top"><td>External link: [http://www.nupedia.com Nupedia]
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>External link:
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| [http://www.nupedia.com Nupedia]</nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr valign="top"><td>Or just give the URL: http://www.nupedia.com.
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| *In the [[en:URL|URL]] all symbols must be among: A-Z a-z 0-9 ._\/~%-+&#?!=()@ \x80-\xFF. If a URL contains a different character it should be converted; for example, ^ has to be written %5E (to be looked up in [[en:ASCII|ASCII]]).
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>Or just give the URL:
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| http://www.nupedia.com.</nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| <tr valign="top"><td>A picture: [[Image:Wiki.png|Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia]]
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| * Only images that have been uploaded to Wikibooks can be used. To upload images, use the [[Special:Upload|upload page]]. You can find the uploaded image on the [[Special:Imagelist|image list]]
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>
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| A picture: [[Image:Wiki.png]]</nowiki></pre>
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| or, with alternate text (''strongly'' encouraged) <!-- actually required in HTML4 -->
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| <pre><nowiki>[[Image:Wiki.png|Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia]] </nowiki>
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| </pre>
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| [[en:Web browser|Web browser]]s render alternate text when not displaying an image -- for example, when the image isn't loaded, or in a text-only browser, or when spoken aloud. See [[en:Wikipedia:Alternate text for images|Alternate text for images]] for help on choosing alternate text.
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <td>
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| Clicking on an uploaded image displays a description page, which you can also link directly to: [[:Image:Wiki.png]]
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>
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| [[:Image:Wiki.png]]
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| </nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr>
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| <td>
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| To include links to non-image uploads such as sounds, or to images shown as links instead of drawn on the page, use a "media" link.
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| <br>[[media:Sg_mrob.ogg|Sound]]
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| <br>
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| <br>[[media:Tornado.jpg|Image of a Tornado]]
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| </td>
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| <td>
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| <pre>
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| <nowiki>
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| [[media:Sg_mrob.ogg|Sound]]
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| [[media:Tornado.jpg|Image of a Tornado]]
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| </nowiki></pre></td></tr>
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| <tr>
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| <td>
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| To link to books, you can use [[en:ISBN|ISBN]] links.
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| ISBN 0123456789X See [[MediaWiki User's Guide: ISBN links]]
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| </td>
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| <td>
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| <nowiki>ISBN 0123456789X</nowiki>
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| <tr>
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| <td>"What links here" and "Related changes" can be linked as:<br>
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| [[Special:Whatlinkshere/Wikipedia:How to edit a page]] and
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| [[Special:Recentchangeslinked/Wikipedia:How to edit a page]]
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| <td><nowiki>
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| [[Special:Whatlinkshere/Wikipedia:How to edit a page]] and
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| [[Special:Recentchangeslinked/Wikipedia:How to edit a page]]</nowiki>
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| </table>
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| == Character formatting ==
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| <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
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| <tr>
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| <th>What it looks like</th>
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| <th>What you type</th>
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| </tr>
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| <tr valign="top"><td>
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| ''Emphasize'', '''strongly''', '''''very strongly'''''.
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| *These are double and triple apostrophes, not double quotes.
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| </td>
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| <td>
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| <pre><nowiki>''Emphasize'', '''strongly''',
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| '''''very strongly'''''.</nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr valign="top"><td>
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| You can also write <i>italic</i> and <b>bold</b>
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| if the desired effect is a specific font style
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| rather than emphasis, as in mathematical formulae:
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| :<b>F</b> = <i>m</i><b>a</b>
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| *However, the difference between these two methods is not very important for graphical browsers, and many people choose to ignore it.
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| </td>
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| <td>
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| <pre><nowiki>You can also write <i>italic</i> and <b>bold</b>
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| if the desired effect is a specific font style
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| rather than emphasis, as in mathematical formulas:
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| :<b>F</b> = <i>m</i><b>a</b></nowiki></pre><!-- that's not a mathematical formula, though -- sure it is, just because it's being applied to physics doesn't make it stop being mathematics -->
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr valign=top>
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| <td>A typewriter font for <tt>technical terms</tt>.
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>A typewriter font for <tt>technical terms</tt>.</nowiki></pre>
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| </td><!-- tt is really 'teletype', not 'technical term' -->
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| </tr>
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| <tr valign=top>
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| <td>You can use <small>small text</small> for captions.
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>You can use <small>small text</small> for captions.</nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr valign="top"><td>You can <strike>strike out deleted material</strike>
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| and <u>underline new material</u>.
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>You can <strike>strike out deleted material</strike>
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| and <u>underline new material</u>.</nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr valign="top">
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| <td>
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| '''Umlauts and accents:''' (See [[MediaWiki User's Guide: Creating special characters]])<br>
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| è é ê ë ì í<br>
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| <br>
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| À Á Â Ã Ä Å <br>
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| Æ Ç È É Ê Ë <br>
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| Ì Í
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| Î Ï Ñ Ò <br>
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| Ó Ô Õ
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| Ö Ø Ù <br>
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| Ú Û Ü ß
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| à á <br>
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| â ã ä å æ
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| ç <br>
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| è é ê ë ì í<br>
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| î ï ñ ò ó ô <br>
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| œ õ
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| ö ø ù ú <br>
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| û ü ÿ
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>
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| è é ê ë ì í
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| &Agrave; &Aacute; &Acirc; &Atilde; &Auml; &Aring;
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| &AElig; &Ccedil; &Egrave; &Eacute; &Ecirc; &Euml;
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| &Igrave; &Iacute; &Icirc; &Iuml; &Ntilde; &Ograve;
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| &Oacute; &Ocirc; &Otilde; &Ouml; &Oslash; &Ugrave;
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| &Uacute; &Ucirc; &Uuml; &szlig; &agrave; &aacute;
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| &acirc; &atilde; &auml; &aring; &aelig; &ccedil;
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| &egrave; &eacute; &ecirc; &euml; &igrave; &iacute;
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| &icirc; &iuml; &ntilde; &ograve; &oacute; &ocirc;
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| &oelig; &otilde; &ouml; &oslash; &ugrave; &uacute;
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| &ucirc; &uuml; &yuml;</nowiki></pre></td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr valign=top>
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| <td>
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| '''Punctuation:'''<br>
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| ¿ ¡ « » § ¶<br>
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| † ‡ • —
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>
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| &iquest; &iexcl; &laquo; &raquo; &sect; &para;
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| &dagger; &Dagger; &bull; &mdash;</nowiki></pre></td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr valign="top">
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| <td>
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| '''Commercial symbols:'''<br>
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| ™ © ® ¢ € ¥ <br>
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| £ ¤</td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>
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| &trade; &copy; &reg; &cent; &euro; &yen;
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| &pound; &curren;
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| </nowiki></pre></td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr valign="top"><td>Subscript: x<sub>2</sub><br>
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| Superscript: x<sup>2</sup> or x²
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| *The latter method of superscript can't be used in the most general context, but is preferred when possible (as with units of measurement) because most browsers have an easier time formatting lines with it.
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| ε<sub>0</sub> =
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| 8.85 × 10<sup>−12</sup>
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| C² / J m.
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| <br>
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| <br>
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| 1 [[hectare]] = [[1 E4 m²]]
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>Subscript: x<sub>2</sub>
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| Superscript: x<sup>2</sup> or x&sup2;
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| &epsilon;<sub>0</sub> =
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| 8.85 &times; 10<sup>&minus;12</sup>
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| C&sup2; / J m.
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| 1 [[hectare]] = [[1 E4 m²]]
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| </nowiki></pre></td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr valign="top"><td>'''Greek characters:''' <br>
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| α β γ δ ε ζ <br>
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| η θ ι κ λ μ ν <br>
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| ξ ο π ρ σ ς <br>
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| τ υ φ χ ψ ω<br>
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| Γ Δ Θ Λ Ξ Π <br>
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| Σ Φ Ψ Ω
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| <td><pre><nowiki>
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| &alpha; &beta; &gamma; &delta; &epsilon; &zeta;
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| &eta; &theta; &iota; &kappa; &lambda; &mu; &nu;
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| &xi; &omicron; &pi; &rho; &sigma; &sigmaf;
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| &tau; &upsilon; &phi; &chi; &psi; &omega;
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| &Gamma; &Delta; &Theta; &Lambda; &Xi; &Pi;
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| &Sigma; &Phi; &Psi; &Omega;
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| </nowiki></pre></td>
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| <tr valign="top">
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| <td>
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| '''Math characters:''' <br>
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| ∫ ∑ ∏ √ − ± ∞<br>
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| ≈ ∝ ≡ ≠ ≤ ≥ →<br>
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| × · ÷ ∂ ′ ″<br>
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| ∇ ‰ ° ∴ ℵ ø<br>
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| ∈ ∉ ∩ ∪ ⊂ ⊃ ⊆ ⊇<br>
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| ¬ ∧ ∨ ∃ ∀ ⇒ ⇔<br>
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| → ↔<br>
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| <td valign="middle"><pre><nowiki>
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| &int; &sum; &prod; &radic; &minus; &plusmn; &infin;
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| &asymp; &prop; &equiv; &ne; &le; &ge; &rarr;
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| &times; &middot; &divide; &part; &prime; &Prime;
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| &nabla; &permil; &deg; &there4; &alefsym; &oslash;
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| &isin; &notin; &cap; &cup; &sub; &sup; &sube; &supe;
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| &not; &and; &or; &exist; &forall; &rArr; &hArr;
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| &rarr; &harr;</nowiki></pre></td>
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| <tr valign="top"><td><i>x</i><sup>2</sup> ≥ 0 true.
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| *To space things out, use non-breaking spaces - <tt>&nbsp;</tt>.
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| *<tt>&nbsp;</tt> also prevents line breaks in the middle of text, this is useful in formulas.
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>
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| <i>x</i><sup>2</sup>&nbsp;&nbsp;&ge;&nbsp;&nbsp;0 true.
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| </nowiki></pre></td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr>
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| <td>
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| '''Complicated formulae:'''<br>
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| <math>\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{x^n}{n!}</math>
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| * See [[MediaWiki User's Guide: Editing mathematical formulae:TeX markup|TeX markup]]
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| </td>
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| <td><pre><nowiki>
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| <math>\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{x^n}{n!}</math>
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| </nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr>
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| <td>
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| '''Suppressing interpretation of markup:'''<br>
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| <nowiki>Link → (<i>to</i>) the [[FAQ]]</nowiki>
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| * Used to show literal data that would otherwise have special meaning.
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| * Escapes all wiki markup, including that which looks like HTML tags.
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| * Does not escape HTML character entities.
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| </td>
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| <td>
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| <pre><nowiki><nowiki>Link &rarr; (<i>to</i>)
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| the [[FAQ]]</nowiki></nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr>
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| <td>
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| '''Commenting page source:'''<br>
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| ''not shown in page''
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| * Used to leave comments in a page for future editors.
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| </td>
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| <td>
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| <pre><nowiki><!-- comment here --></nowiki></pre>
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| </td>
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| </tr>
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| </table>
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| == HTML Tables ==
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| [[en:HTML|HTML]] tables can be quite useful as well. For details on how to use them and discussion about when they are appropriate, see [[MediaWiki User's Guide: Using tables]].
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| ==Variables==
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| <table>
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| <tr><th>Code<th>Effect
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| <tr><td><nowiki>{{CURRENTMONTH}}</nowiki>
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| <td>{{CURRENTMONTH}}
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| <tr><td><nowiki>{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}</nowiki>
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| <td>{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}
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| <tr><td><nowiki>{{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}}</nowiki>
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| <td>{{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}}
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| <tr><td><nowiki>{{CURRENTDAY}}</nowiki>
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| <td>{{CURRENTDAY}}
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| <tr><td><nowiki>{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}</nowiki>
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| <td>{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}
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| <tr><td><nowiki>{{CURRENTYEAR}}</nowiki>
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| <td>{{CURRENTYEAR}}
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| <tr><td><nowiki>{{CURRENTTIME}}</nowiki>
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| <td>{{CURRENTTIME}}
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| <tr><td><nowiki>{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}</nowiki>
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| <td>{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}
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| </table>
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| NUMBEROFARTICLES: number of pages in the main namespace which contain a link and are not a redirect, i.e. number of articles, stubs containing a link, and disambiguation pages).
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| ==Page protection==
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| In a few cases the link labeled "{{msg:Editthispage}}" is replaced by the text "{{msg:Protectedpage}}" (or equivalents in the language of the project). In that case the page can not be edited.
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