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Wordman: Missed one

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Wordman: Revamping this page entirely to rely on MediaWiki's existing Help system.

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Nikink: /* Comments and Questions */ reply to IsawaBrian

2010-04-19T03:37:24Z

‎Comments and Questions: reply to IsawaBrian

IsawaBrian: Table formatting is broken-- help!

2010-04-19T03:33:35Z

Table formatting is broken-- help!

Conversion script: link fix

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Gayo: Yikes, sorry! This is what I get for editing on no sleep.

2007-04-21T05:21:12Z

Yikes, sorry! This is what I get for editing on no sleep.

Gayo: Yikes, sorry! This is what I get for editing on no sleep.

2007-04-21T05:21:12Z

Yikes, sorry! This is what I get for editing on no sleep.

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 * [[Help:Tables]] - how to do tables.
-= Table of Contents =
+== Table of Contents ==
 When you use section headers in your pages, the wiki will automatically display a "table of contents" at the top of the page. Sometimes this is very useful. Sometimes it is not. If you want to suppress it, add the following to the top of your page:

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 * back to [[WelcomeToExaltedWiki]]
-= The Help Pages =
+== The Help Pages ==
 This wiki contains a number of help pages describing how formatting is done:
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 <nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki>
-= Redirects =
+== Redirects ==
 Unlike the old wiki, this wiki software supports [[Help:Moving a page|renaming pages]]. This should be used sparingly, if at all. Often a simple [[Help:Redirects|redirect]] will work better.
-= Categories =
+== Categories ==
 This wiki supports [[Help:Categories|categories]]; however not much discussion has been on done on how the community should use them. Historically, communities tend to use categories very badly at first, leading to one or more "category reorganizations" over the life of the wiki. Probably best not to go too crazy with them for now.
-= Templates =
+== Templates ==
 This wiki supports [[Help:Templates|templates]]; however not much discussion has been on done on how the community should use them. Templating is another area that can get nuts quickly. Again, probably best not to go too crazy with them for now.
-= Comments =
+== Comments ==
 Looks like the old version of table formatting doesn't work.  Anyone know how to get tables to function in mediawiki? -- IsawaBrian
 : Look at the WW Wiki tables and try that (or wikipedia I suppose). I started to do that last week, but got distracted and haven't tried it yet. This is something that I hope can be fixed via script, cuz there are a lot of tables around! [[nikink]]

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	Looks like the old version of table formatting doesn't work. Anyone know how to get tables to function in mediawiki? -- IsawaBrian		Looks like the old version of table formatting doesn't work. Anyone know how to get tables to function in mediawiki? -- IsawaBrian
		+	: Look at the WW Wiki tables and try that (or wikipedia I suppose). I started to do that last week, but got distracted and haven't tried it yet. This is something that I hope can be fixed via script, cuz there are a lot of tables around! [[nikink]]

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	:I've sent at least two emails about this problem and another specifically indicating I would track down the exact line that needed changing and how to fix it, presuming Xyphoid could tell me what version of the software this board uses. All were met with silence. So, as my attempts to help actually solve the problem have gone nowhere, I'm left with nothing but futile bitching about how colossally and unnecessarily stupid it is. This simple feature could make this wiki so much more useful. - [[Wordman]]		:I've sent at least two emails about this problem and another specifically indicating I would track down the exact line that needed changing and how to fix it, presuming Xyphoid could tell me what version of the software this board uses. All were met with silence. So, as my attempts to help actually solve the problem have gone nowhere, I'm left with nothing but futile bitching about how colossally and unnecessarily stupid it is. This simple feature could make this wiki so much more useful. - [[Wordman]]
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		+	Looks like the old version of table formatting doesn't work. Anyone know how to get tables to function in mediawiki? -- IsawaBrian

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 = Wiki Text Formatting Rules =
-<i>Shamelessly taken from the original UseModWiki site and heavily edited</i>
+<i>Shamelessly taken from the original [[UseModWiki]] site and heavily edited</i>
 Simple editing is one of the major benefits of using a wiki. Users can edit pages without knowing HTML, and still use many formatting features of HTML. Most wikis define a set of formatting rules to convert plain text into HTML. Some wikis (like this one) also allow some HTML "tags", like <b>, <i>, and <nowiki><pre></nowiki> within a page. (Some wikis use raw HTML instead of special formatting rules.)
-The following text is an overview of the ExaltedWiki text formatting rules.  To try these rules for yourself, please feel free to edit the SandBox page. To see how any page is formatted, just follow the link "Modify text of this page" at the bottom of the page.  (Note: if you are looking for the templates for certain "types" of pages, they are at FormatStandards.)
+The following text is an overview of the [[ExaltedWiki]] text formatting rules.  To try these rules for yourself, please feel free to edit the [[SandBox]] page. To see how any page is formatted, just follow the link "Modify text of this page" at the bottom of the page.  (Note: if you are looking for the templates for certain "types" of pages, they are at [[FormatStandards]].)
-<b>BEFORE YOU MAKE OR EDIT ANY PAGES, PLEASE PLEASE READ BestPractices!</b>
+<b>BEFORE YOU MAKE OR EDIT ANY PAGES, PLEASE PLEASE READ [[BestPractices]]!</b>
-* back to BestPractices
+* back to [[BestPractices]]
-* back to QuickStartGuide
+* back to [[QuickStartGuide]]
-* back to WikiContent
+* back to [[WikiContent]]
-* back to WhatIsAWiki
+* back to [[WhatIsAWiki]]
-* back to WelcomeToExaltedWiki
+* back to [[WelcomeToExaltedWiki]]
 == Contents ==
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 == Page, URL, and <nowiki>InterWiki</nowiki> Links ==
-You can link to a page by removing the spaces between two or more words, and starting each word with a capital letter, e.g. UserPages.
+You can link to a page by removing the spaces between two or more words, and starting each word with a capital letter, e.g. [[UserPages]].
-If a page's content has not been defined yet, then there will be a golden question mark next to the page name.  Clicking on that question mark will allow you to create the page.  For example, there is no such page as NoSuchPage (please don't click on the golden question mark, because if you create NoSuchPage then it will no longer be a valid example for this happy little section).
+If a page's content has not been defined yet, then there will be a golden question mark next to the page name.  Clicking on that question mark will allow you to create the page.  For example, there is no such page as [[NoSuchPage]] (please don't click on the golden question mark, because if you create [[NoSuchPage]] then it will no longer be a valid example for this happy little section).
 Here is an example of a hyperlink to an off-wiki page: <nowiki>http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?SandBox</nowiki> ends up looking like: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?SandBox
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 Here is an example of a labelled hyperlink to an off-wiki page: <nowiki>[http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?SandBox Link name]</nowiki> ends up looking like:  [http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?SandBox Link name]
-Here is an example of an interwiki link (a link to another ExaltedWiki page) that has been labelled with something other than the page's name: <nowiki>[[UseModWiki | Label name]]</nowiki> ends up looking like: [[UseModWiki | Label name]]
+Here is an example of an interwiki link (a link to another [[ExaltedWiki]] page) that has been labelled with something other than the page's name: <nowiki>[[UseModWiki | Label name]]</nowiki> ends up looking like: [[UseModWiki | Label name]]
-You can separate links from adjacent text with spaces or the special "" (two double-quotes) delimiter. The "" delimiter is not displayed -- it is useful for cases like plural forms of page links (such as UseModWiki""s). In nearly all cases trailing punctuation is ignored, so you can safely make links like "http://www.usemod.com/," without the trailing comma or quotation marks being part of the link.
+You can separate links from adjacent text with spaces or the special "" (two double-quotes) delimiter. The "" delimiter is not displayed -- it is useful for cases like plural forms of page links (such as [[UseModWiki]]""s). In nearly all cases trailing punctuation is ignored, so you can safely make links like "http://www.usemod.com/," without the trailing comma or quotation marks being part of the link.
 [#Lists]
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 <pre>Pre-formatted section here.
 No other link or format processing is done on pre-formatted sections.
-For instance, UseModWiki is not a link here.</pre>
+For instance, [[UseModWiki]] is not a link here.</pre>
 and:
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   This is the starting-spaces version of
   preformatted text. Note that links like
-  UseModWiki still work.
+  [[UseModWiki]] still work.
 [#Misc]
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 * A line that ends in a forwardslash character (\) will be joined with the next line before most formatting rules are applied. This can be useful for breaking up long sections of text in line-sensitive sections (like lists or indented text).
 * If raw-HTML sections are enabled (they are disabled by default), you can enter raw HTML code within a &lt;html> ... </html> section. Note that no quoting is done, so you will need to use sequences like &amp;lt; if you want to display a < character.
-* Most of the formatting rules are order-independent. On rare occasions the order of processing may be important. The rules are processed in the following order: raw HTML sections, HTML quoting, nowiki tags, backslash line joining, preformatted sections, paragraphs, lists and indented text, horizontal lines, italic/bold text, URLs, and finally ordinary WikiName links. [No longer fully accurate for 0.88, needs updating.]
+* Most of the formatting rules are order-independent. On rare occasions the order of processing may be important. The rules are processed in the following order: raw HTML sections, HTML quoting, nowiki tags, backslash line joining, preformatted sections, paragraphs, lists and indented text, horizontal lines, italic/bold text, URLs, and finally ordinary [[WikiName]] links. [No longer fully accurate for 0.88, needs updating.]
 [#Tables]
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 * Characters such as <, &copy; and &infin; may be encoded on pages as: \
 "<nowiki>&</nowiki>lt;", "<nowiki>&</nowiki>copy;" and "<nowiki>&</nowiki>infin;" respectively.\
-See http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html. UseMod:DougConley dcon
+See http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html. [[UseMod]]:[[DougConley]] dcon
 [#Comments]
 == Comments and Questions ==
-<i>If you have an exciting idea for some form of code or new text formatting rule that ought to be implemented for this wiki, then please head over to WikiChanges and suggest it there.</i>
+<i>If you have an exciting idea for some form of code or new text formatting rule that ought to be implemented for this wiki, then please head over to [[WikiChanges]] and suggest it there.</i>
 Okay, for some reason you can't use the "nowiki" tag to keep bullet points from displaying themselves.  Anyone know why?<BR>~ [[Shataina]]
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 I don't know if it's the Wiki, but anchor tags don't seem to be working; both on Firefox and IE I just get a page saying "This page is redirecting you to X Page, do you want to do that?", and then doesn't go to the anchor. Am I screwing something up?
 : Anchors have never worked here. Just don't try. - [[Trithne]]
-:It's true that InterPageLinks don't work, but I think the (unsigned) poster was talking about a new feature of Firefox, that displays a "I'm redirecting you" page instead of just redirecting you. I gather the intent is to help stop phishing from fooling people. - [[Wordman]]
+:It's true that [[InterPageLinks]] don't work, but I think the (unsigned) poster was talking about a new feature of Firefox, that displays a "I'm redirecting you" page instead of just redirecting you. I gather the intent is to help stop phishing from fooling people. - [[Wordman]]
-:: That is indeed what I was thinking of. That said, if anchors don't work, we should possibly remove the information on how to place anchors from the Miscellaneous Rules section. (And whoops on the unsigning. I blame tiredness). - FrivYeti
+:: That is indeed what I was thinking of. That said, if anchors don't work, we should possibly remove the information on how to place anchors from the Miscellaneous Rules section. (And whoops on the unsigning. I blame tiredness). - [[FrivYeti]]
 :: I'd rather we actually just change a single chartacter in the code and fix the &%#$ing bug, but that isn't up to me. - [[Wordman]]
-Anchors used to work, Trithne, you whippersnapper.  ;)  Indeed, I myself wrote the Anchors section after exhaustive experimentation back when I first went over these rules.  I guess UseMod has been updated in the interim.  That said, I took the time to look at it a little more.  It appears that actually typing in an anchor will lead you to it: frex, if you manually enter http://exalted.xi.co.nz/wiki/wiki.pl?Shataina/ManseCreation##Maintenance into the URL bar, you'll go to the proper place.  Linking to it from the wiki is the problem.  I don't have time to figure that out right now, but I am sure that someone who bothered to do a little experimentation could.<br>~ [[Shataina]]
+Anchors used to work, Trithne, you whippersnapper.  ;)  Indeed, I myself wrote the Anchors section after exhaustive experimentation back when I first went over these rules.  I guess [[UseMod]] has been updated in the interim.  That said, I took the time to look at it a little more.  It appears that actually typing in an anchor will lead you to it: frex, if you manually enter http://exalted.xi.co.nz/wiki/wiki.pl?Shataina/ManseCreation##Maintenance into the URL bar, you'll go to the proper place.  Linking to it from the wiki is the problem.  I don't have time to figure that out right now, but I am sure that someone who bothered to do a little experimentation could.<br>~ [[Shataina]]
-:No. Linking from the wiki is actually not the problem. The problem is that the anchors include the # character in their name. This requires links like the one you mention above, with two # characters in a row. I've installed the latest version of UseModWiki to test this. It does not have this problem. It builds the anchor with out the extra #, allowing the ''correct'' link to work (e.g. http://exalted.xi.co.nz/wiki/wiki.pl?Shataina/ManseCreation#Maintenance). Basically, the issue is that half of the system (the part that builds the anchors) thinks their should be an extra #, while the other half (the part that builds links to the anchors) does not. It's the first part that is broken, not the second. See InterPageLinks for more examples. - [[Wordman]]
+:No. Linking from the wiki is actually not the problem. The problem is that the anchors include the # character in their name. This requires links like the one you mention above, with two # characters in a row. I've installed the latest version of [[UseModWiki]] to test this. It does not have this problem. It builds the anchor with out the extra #, allowing the ''correct'' link to work (e.g. http://exalted.xi.co.nz/wiki/wiki.pl?Shataina/ManseCreation#Maintenance). Basically, the issue is that half of the system (the part that builds the anchors) thinks their should be an extra #, while the other half (the part that builds links to the anchors) does not. It's the first part that is broken, not the second. See [[InterPageLinks]] for more examples. - [[Wordman]]
-::I suppose it kinda depends on your definition of "problem", huh? ;)  Obviously anchors have always been *technically* broken, it's just a question of whether there's a workaround.  There used to be one that worked OK even if it was silly; it's in the rules, but now it doesn't.  So we can complain because the system is broken, or we can look for a solution.  I sort of enjoy playing with the markup in an effort to find ways to work around these sorts of issues, but you and Trithne etc. apparently don't.   So.  If you guys aren't going to look for a new way to link to anchors from the wiki -- notwithstanding the fact that it *should* work another way -- then might I suggest that you email [[Xyphoid]]?  You could also post something to WikiChanges, the page that exists specifically to ask for changes to the wiki, though I don't know if he checks that anymore.<br>~ S.
+::I suppose it kinda depends on your definition of "problem", huh? ;)  Obviously anchors have always been *technically* broken, it's just a question of whether there's a workaround.  There used to be one that worked OK even if it was silly; it's in the rules, but now it doesn't.  So we can complain because the system is broken, or we can look for a solution.  I sort of enjoy playing with the markup in an effort to find ways to work around these sorts of issues, but you and Trithne etc. apparently don't.   So.  If you guys aren't going to look for a new way to link to anchors from the wiki -- notwithstanding the fact that it *should* work another way -- then might I suggest that you email [[Xyphoid]]?  You could also post something to [[WikiChanges]], the page that exists specifically to ask for changes to the wiki, though I don't know if he checks that anymore.<br>~ S.
 :I've sent at least two emails about this problem and another specifically indicating I would track down the exact line that needed changing and how to fix it, presuming Xyphoid could tell me what version of the software this board uses. All were met with silence. So, as my attempts to help actually solve the problem have gone nowhere, I'm left with nothing but futile bitching about how colossally and unnecessarily stupid it is. This simple feature could make this wiki so much more useful. - [[Wordman]]

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