This page collects "Helpful Hints and reminders" about how to do certain not so routine things on a wiki. Some of these are fairly common-place---like "references"---I just can't remember the exact code to use.
Problem | Solution | Example | Source
| remove the "namespace" in a link to an article
| enter a "pipe" just before the closing brackets
| [Help:Entering a Family on WeRelate tutorial|Entering a Family on WeRelate tutorial] yields Entering a Family on WeRelate tutorial (note the | after the word tutorial).
| -Dallan 20:53, 5 July 2008 (EDT)
| Create a link to a subsection
| Use the page URL and add "/#XYZ" where XYZ is the name of the subsection.
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| Inserting a footnote
| place <ref name="someword"> text </ref> and <references/> in the body of the text where you want the notes list to appear on the page.
| [1] See below
| Link to a Category Page | Insert colon before "Category" | Category:SomeCategory
| Insert the Name of a page
| [[{{SUBJECTPAGENAME}}]]
| Quolla6/Helpful Hints and Reminders
| Dallan
| Kill HTML Formating
| Place a "<" followed by "!---" in Front of some text with HTML formating
Place This " ---> Following that text
| Looks like this:
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| Redirect | #redirect [[Namespace:Name of the original page]].
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- ↑ This is a footnote
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