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This is '''way more''' than Romans need to know. I'll try to simplify it over the next few days.
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==Editing: Basic steps ==
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This is one of the [[NovaRoma:Help_files | Nova Roma wiki help files]].
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This is a quick guide for editing for Romans who are new to wikis.
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*If you just want to '''edit an existing article''':
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**Please read section 1 "Editing: Basic steps" carefully.
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**Use the other sections as a reference for doing fancier things.
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*If you want to '''create a new article''', it is just the same, but please also read about [[NRWiki:Article Names|how to name articles]].
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'''N.B.:''' This isn't everything that you can do, but it is probably enough for most articles. More topics are covered in '''[[NovaRoma:Advanced Wiki Editing for Romans|Advanced Wiki Editing for Romans]]'''.
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==Editing: Basic steps==
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===The Fourfold Way===
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{{NovaRoma:Fourfold way}}
  
 
===Start editing===
 
===Start editing===
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When you have finished, press '''Show preview''' to see how your changes will look -- '''before''' you make them permanent.  Repeat the edit/preview process until you are satisfied, then click '''Save page''' and your changes will be immediately applied to the article.
 
When you have finished, press '''Show preview''' to see how your changes will look -- '''before''' you make them permanent.  Repeat the edit/preview process until you are satisfied, then click '''Save page''' and your changes will be immediately applied to the article.
  
== Wikitext markup -- making the page look the way you want==
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== Links ==
  
<!-- This is the part everybody wants, therefore transcluded and not just linked.-->
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You will often want to make clickable ''links'' to other pages.
  
===Emphasis===
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===Link to another article in the wiki===
  
#''Emphasis'': put two apostropes around the bit you want to emphasize <nowiki>''emphasis''</nowiki> (usually italic)
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To '''link to another article in this wiki''', just type the article title inside''' <nowiki>[[double brackets]]</nowiki>'''.
#'''More emphasis''': put three apostropes around the bit you want to emphasize <nowiki>'''More emphasis'''</nowiki> (usually bold)
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# '''''Lots of emphasis''''': put five apostropes around the bit you want to emphasize <nowiki>'''''Lots of emphasis'''''</nowiki> (usually bold italic)
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To link to the article "Choosing a Roman name", you would enter
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<nowiki>[[Choosing a Roman name]]</nowiki>
  
===New paragraph===
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and it would appear in your article like this: [[Choosing a Roman name]].
  
Use an empty line to start a new paragraph. A simple return is ignored, but two returns (a blank line) starts a new paragraph.
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To make it fit smoothly in a sentence, you can make the first letter (only) lower case. If you type:
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We have an article about <nowiki>[[choosing a Roman name]]</nowiki>
  
===Section headings and subsection headings===
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It will look like this: "We have an article about [[choosing a Roman name]]".
  
Divide your article into sections by putting your heading on a new line and surrounding it with double equals signs:  
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If you want to link to an article but you '''don't want to use the article's title''', you can use the '''pipe character |'''. Start your link the same way, with the article title in double brackets, but then add the pipe character and then the words that you want to appear as your link.
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We have an article about <nowiki>[[choosing a Roman name | picking a name]]</nowiki>.
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Appears as: "We have an article about [[choosing a Roman name | picking a name]]".
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Many articles here have titles like "Coin (Nova Roma)". If you '''don't want the "(Nova Roma)" part to appear''', just make a normal link, add a pipe character and then add '''nothing'''. If you type
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<nowiki>[[Coin (Nova Roma)|]]</nowiki>
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you will get this: "[[Coin (Nova Roma)|Coin]]".
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If you add any letters right against the end of your link, they will become part of the link. If you type
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  <nowiki>We have also minted several [[coin (Nova Roma)|]]s.</nowiki>
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you will get this: "We have also minted several [[coin (Nova Roma)|coin]]s."
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===Link to things outside the wiki===
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To link to something outside the wiki, just enter the URL. If you type
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<nowiki>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newroman/</nowiki>
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you get a link that looks like this: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newroman/
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If you want to give that link a name you must put it in '''''single''''' '''square brackets''' and add the name after the address, just leaving a space. So if you type this:
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<nowiki>[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newroman/ a group for new citizens]</nowiki>
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it will look like this: "[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newroman/ a group for new citizens]".
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If you use the '''single square brackets''' and '''no link name''', you will get a number. If you type 
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<nowiki>[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newroman/]</nowiki>
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you will see this "[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newroman/]".
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===Category links===
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You can add your article to a '''category''' by putting in a ''category link''.
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A '''category''' is a special kind of page. It will automatically show an alphabetical list of all the articles that have a link to that category. Every article in that category has a link like this inside it:
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<nowiki>[[Category:Nova Roma]]</nowiki>
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*Put a category link anywhere in the article, usually at the bottom or at the top.
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*The link to the category ''automatically'' appears at the bottom of the article.
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*An article can be in any number of categories.
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To make a '''link to a category''' ''without adding the article to the category'', just add a leading colon, like this:
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<nowiki>[[:Category:Nova Roma]]</nowiki>
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It will look like this: "[[:Category:Nova Roma]]"
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Of course, it now acts like a normal ''inside the wiki link'', so all the other rules apply:
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<nowiki>[[:Category:Senators (Nova Roma)|]]</nowiki>
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Appears as: "[[:Category:Senators (Nova Roma)|Senators]]"
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===Date links===
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'''N.B.''' We have a special system for recent years. Put double ''braces'' around recent years in the common system. The wiki will convert these to consular dates with the common dating as hover text.
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If you type  <nowiki>{{2006}}</nowiki>
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it will become "{{2006}}".
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Otherwise, always put '''<nowiki>double brackets</nowiki>''' around '''dates'''.
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The Wiki reformats linked dates to match the reader's date preferences. These three dates will show up the same if you choose a format in your [[Special:Preferences|Preferences]]:
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* [[July 20]], [[1969]]
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* [[20 July]] [[1969]]
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* [[1969]]-[[07-20]]
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Always put '''<nowiki>double brackets</nowiki>''' around '''years AUC''' (in Roman numerals).
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===Redirection links===
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You can automatically forward readers from one article to another. For example, a reader who searches for "[[eagle]]" will be forwarded automatically to the article on [[Aquila heliaca]].
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The article "Eagle" contains just this:
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<nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Aquila heliaca]]</nowiki>
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The redirection happens automatically. If you add a redirect to an existing article, everything else in that article will be deleted, so use redirects carefully.
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==Dividing the text==
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===Making paragraphs===
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Leave an empty line to start a new paragraph. A single return is ignored, but two returns (a blank line) starts a new paragraph. Do not use <nowiki><p></nowiki>.
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===Making sections===
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Divide an article into sections by putting a heading on a new line and surrounding it with double equals signs:  
 
  <nowiki>==Section heading==</nowiki>
 
  <nowiki>==Section heading==</nowiki>
  
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  <nowiki>===Sub-section heading===</nowiki>
 
  <nowiki>===Sub-section heading===</nowiki>
  
*make smaller divisions with more equals signs.
 
*Don't skip levels, like from two to four equals signs.
 
 
*Start with two equals signs; don't use single equals signs.
 
*Start with two equals signs; don't use single equals signs.
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*make smaller divisions with more equals signs.
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*Don't skip levels: two equals signs should be followed by three equals signs, not four equals signs.
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A table of contents will be generated automatically for any article with four or more headings.
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Do not use <nowiki><h1>, <h2> etc.</nowiki>.
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==''Italics'' and '''bold'''==
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You can put words into ''italics'' or '''bold''' by surrounding them with apostrophes (or single quotes).
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''Italics'' are used for words in another language (e.g. Latin). They are '''not''' used for emphasis.
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'''Bold''' is used for emphasis.
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The emphasise a word in a foreign language, you can use '''''bold italics'''''.
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#Put '''two''' apostrophes around the bit you want to make italic: <nowiki>''Non-English word''</nowiki> --> ''Non-English word''.
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#Put '''three''' apostrophes around the bit you want to make bold: <nowiki>'''Emphasised word'''</nowiki> --> '''Emphasised word'''.
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#Put '''five''' apostrophes around the bit you want to make bold and italic: <nowiki>'''''Emphasised non-English word'''''</nowiki> --> '''''Emphasised non-English word''''' (usually bold italic).
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It is considered ''bad form'' to use ALL CAPS for emphasis.
  
===Lists===
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==Lists==
  
====Unordered lists====
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===Unordered lists===
  
 
*Start every list item on a new line.
 
*Start every list item on a new line.
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  *This list looks like this:
 
  *This list looks like this:
  
====Ordered lists====
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===Ordered lists===
  
 
#Start every list item on a new line.
 
#Start every list item on a new line.
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  #Start every list item on a new line.
 
  #Start every list item on a new line.
  #Put an asterix in front of each item.
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  #Put a number sign in front of each item.
 
  #This list looks like this:
 
  #This list looks like this:
  
====Definition lists====
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===Definition lists===
  
 
*Put each item to define on a new line
 
*Put each item to define on a new line
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  ;Item to define : A nice definition that can be as long or as short as you want.
 
  ;Item to define : A nice definition that can be as long or as short as you want.
  
=== Links ===
 
  
You will often want to make clickable ''links'' to other pages.
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==Using footnotes==
 
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{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
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|-
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!What it looks like
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!What you type
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|-
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|
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Here's a link to a page named [[Official position]].
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You can even say [[official position]]s
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and the link will show up correctly.
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|<pre><nowiki>
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Here's a link to a page named [[Official position]].
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You can even say [[official position]]s
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and the link will show up correctly.
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</nowiki></pre>
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|-
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|
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You can put formatting around a link.
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Example: ''[[Wikipedia]]''.
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|<pre><nowiki>
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You can put formatting around a link.
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Example: ''[[Wikipedia]]''.
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</nowiki></pre>
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|-
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The ''first letter'' of articles is automatically capitalized,
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so [[wikipedia]] goes to the same place as [[Wikipedia]].
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Capitalization matters after the first letter.
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|<pre><nowiki>
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The ''first letter'' of articles is automatically capitalized,
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so [[wikipedia]] goes to the same place as [[Wikipedia]].
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Capitalization matters after the first letter.
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</nowiki></pre>
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|-
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[[The weather in London]] is a page that doesn't exist
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yet. You could create it by clicking on the link.
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|<pre><nowiki>
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[[The weather in London]] is a page that doesn't exist
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yet. You could create it by clicking on the link.
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</nowiki></pre>
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|-
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|
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You can link to a page section by its title:
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*[[List of cities by country#Morocco]].
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If multiple sections have the same title, add
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a number. [[#Example section 3]] goes to the
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third section named "Example section".
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|<pre><nowiki>
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You can link to a page section by its title:
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*[[List of cities by country#Morocco]].
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If multiple sections have the same title, add
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It's of utmost importance that for all claims in a scholarly article of our website we use references in footnotes. It does not only assures our readers they are reading a high quality, researched and verified article, but it greatly hepls them in further research, to find the ancient sources, the latest scholarship, authors etc., so that they can conduct researches themselves, or deepen their understanding and Romannes.
a number. [[#Example section 3]] goes to the
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third section named "Example section".
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</nowiki></pre>
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|-
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|
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You can make a link point to a different place
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with a [[Help:Piped link|piped link]]. Put the link
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target first, then the pipe character "|", then
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the link text.
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*[[Help:Link|About Links]]
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To create a footnote, determine the point in the page content where the footnote is desired and enter the markup with the citation or note inside the '''<nowiki><ref></nowiki>'''TEXT OF THE FOOTNOTE'''<nowiki></ref></nowiki>''' tags.  
*[[List of cities by country#Morocco|
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A numeral indicating the footnote and the footnote iself will automatically appear on the page at the point where you put this tag: '''<nowiki><references/></nowiki>''' For example:
Cities in Morocco]]
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|<pre><nowiki>
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You can make a link point to a different place
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with a [[Help:Piped link|piped link]]. Put the link
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target first, then the pipe character "|", then
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the link text.
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*[[Help:Link|About Links]]
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<nowiki>This is the text on the page that needs a footnote in the "references" section below.<ref>''LibreOffice For Starters'', First Edition, Flexible Minds, Manchester, 2002, p. 18</ref>
*[[List of cities by country#Morocco|
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<references/></nowiki>
Cities in Morocco]]
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</nowiki></pre>
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|-
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You can make an external link just by typing a URL:
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http://www.nupedia.com
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You can give it a title:
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It will look like this:
[http://www.nupedia.com Nupedia]
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Or leave the title blank:
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This is the text on the page that needs a footnote in the "references" section below.<ref>''LibreOffice For Starters'', First Edition, Flexible Minds, Manchester, 2002, p. 18</ref>
[http://www.nupedia.com]
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<references/>
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<pre><nowiki>
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You can make an external link just by typing a URL:
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http://www.nupedia.com
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You can give it a title:
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'''Attention''': there must be no space before or after the '''<nowiki><ref></nowiki>'''TEXT OF THE FOOTNOTE'''<nowiki></ref></nowiki>''' tags. If there is a space there, the text will show error.
[http://www.nupedia.com Nupedia]
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Or leave the title blank:
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==Special characters==
[http://www.nupedia.com]
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</nowiki></pre>
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|-
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|
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You can [[Help:Redirect|redirect]] the user to another page.
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|<pre><nowiki>
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#REDIRECT [[Official position]]
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</nowiki></pre>
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|-
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[[Help:Category|Category links]] don't show up, but add the page
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to a category. [[Category:English documentation]]
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Add an extra colon to actually link to the category:
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''Now that Mediawiki (the software that makes this wiki go) supports UTF-8, many of these can be entered directly into articles, without the HTML markup.   
[[:Category:English documentation]]
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|<pre><nowiki>
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Category links don't show up, but add the page
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to a category. [[Category:English documentation]]
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Add an extra colon to actually link to the category:
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[[:Category:English documentation]]
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</nowiki></pre>
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|-
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The Wiki reformats linked dates to match the reader's date
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preferences. These three dates will show up the same if you
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choose a format in your [[Special:Preferences|Preferences]]:
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* [[July 20]], [[1969]]
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* [[20 July]] [[1969]]
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* [[1969]]-[[07-20]]
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|<pre><nowiki>
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The Wiki reformats linked dates to match the reader's date
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preferences. These three dates will show up the same if you
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choose a format in your [[Special:Preferences|]]:
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* [[July 20]], [[1969]]
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* [[20 July]] [[1969]]
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* [[1969]]-[[07-20]]
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</nowiki></pre>
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===Images===
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{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
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|-
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!What it looks like
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!What you type
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|-
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|
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A picture, including alternate text:
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[[Image:Nova_Roma_Flag.jpg|Nova Roma flag]]
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|<pre><nowiki>
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A picture, including alternate text:
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[[Image:Nova_Roma_Flag.jpg|Nova Roma flag]]
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</nowiki></pre>
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|-
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|
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You can put the image in a frame with a caption:
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[[Image:Nova_Roma_Flag.jpg|frame|The Nova Roma flag]]
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|<pre><nowiki>
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You can put the image in a frame with a caption:
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[[Image:Nova_Roma_Flag.jpg|frame|The Nova Roma flag]]
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</nowiki></pre>
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|-
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|
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[[Image:Nova_Roma_Flag.jpg|frame|left|The Nova Roma flag]]
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You can put the image in a frame with a caption and make text wrap around it:
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|<pre><nowiki>
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[[Image:Nova_Roma_Flag.jpg|frame|left|The Nova Roma flag]]
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You can put the image in a frame
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with a caption and make text wrap around it:
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</nowiki></pre>
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|}
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===Special characters===
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''Now that Mediawiki (the software that makes this wiki go) supports UTF-8, many of these can be entered directly into articles, without the HTML markup.  On many wikis, a tool appears under the edit box to make this easier.  See [[Help:Special characters]].''
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<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
 
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
 
<tr valign="top">
 
<tr valign="top">
 
<td>
 
<td>
'''Umlauts and accents:''' <br>
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'''Umlauts and accents:''' <br/>
À Á Â Ã Ä Å<br>
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À Á Â Ã Ä Å<br/>
Æ Ç È É Ê Ë<br>
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Æ Ç È É Ê Ë<br/>
Ì Í Î Ï Ñ Ò<br>
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Ì Í Î Ï Ñ Ò<br/>
Ó Ô Õ Ö Ø Ù<br>
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Ó Ô Õ Ö Ø Ù<br/>
Ú Û Ü ß à á<br>
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Ú Û Ü ß à á<br/>
â ã ä å æ ç<br>
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â ã ä å æ ç<br/>
è é ê ë ì í<br>
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è é ê ë ì í<br/>
î ï ñ ò ó ô<br>
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î ï ñ ò ó ô<br/>
œ õ ö ø ù ú<br>
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œ õ ö ø ù ú<br/>
 
û ü ÿ
 
û ü ÿ
 
</td>
 
</td>
<td><br>
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<td><br/>
<tt><nowiki>&amp;Agrave; &amp;Aacute; &amp;Acirc;  &amp;Atilde; &amp;Auml;  &amp;Aring;  </nowiki></tt><br>
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<tt><nowiki>&amp;Agrave; &amp;Aacute; &amp;Acirc;  &amp;Atilde; &amp;Auml;  &amp;Aring;  </nowiki></tt><br/>
<tt><nowiki>&amp;AElig;  &amp;Ccedil; &amp;Egrave; &amp;Eacute; &amp;Ecirc;  &amp;Euml;  </nowiki></tt><br>
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<tt><nowiki>&amp;AElig;  &amp;Ccedil; &amp;Egrave; &amp;Eacute; &amp;Ecirc;  &amp;Euml;  </nowiki></tt><br/>
<tt><nowiki>&amp;Igrave; &amp;Iacute; &amp;Icirc;  &amp;Iuml;  &amp;Ntilde; &amp;Ograve; </nowiki></tt><br>
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<tt><nowiki>&amp;Igrave; &amp;Iacute; &amp;Icirc;  &amp;Iuml;  &amp;Ntilde; &amp;Ograve; </nowiki></tt><br/>
<tt><nowiki>&amp;Oacute; &amp;Ocirc;  &amp;Otilde; &amp;Ouml;  &amp;Oslash; &amp;Ugrave; </nowiki></tt><br>
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<tt><nowiki>&amp;Oacute; &amp;Ocirc;  &amp;Otilde; &amp;Ouml;  &amp;Oslash; &amp;Ugrave; </nowiki></tt><br/>
<tt><nowiki>&amp;Uacute; &amp;Ucirc;  &amp;Uuml;  &amp;szlig;  &amp;agrave; &amp;aacute; </nowiki></tt><br>
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<tt><nowiki>&amp;Uacute; &amp;Ucirc;  &amp;Uuml;  &amp;szlig;  &amp;agrave; &amp;aacute; </nowiki></tt><br/>
<tt><nowiki>&amp;acirc;  &amp;atilde; &amp;auml;  &amp;aring;  &amp;aelig;  &amp;ccedil; </nowiki></tt><br>
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<tt><nowiki>&amp;acirc;  &amp;atilde; &amp;auml;  &amp;aring;  &amp;aelig;  &amp;ccedil; </nowiki></tt><br/>
<tt><nowiki>&amp;egrave; &amp;eacute; &amp;ecirc;  &amp;euml;  &amp;igrave; &amp;iacute; </nowiki></tt><br>
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<tt><nowiki>&amp;egrave; &amp;eacute; &amp;ecirc;  &amp;euml;  &amp;igrave; &amp;iacute; </nowiki></tt><br/>
<tt><nowiki>&amp;icirc;  &amp;iuml;  &amp;ntilde; &amp;ograve; &amp;oacute; &amp;ocirc;  </nowiki></tt><br>
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<tt><nowiki>&amp;icirc;  &amp;iuml;  &amp;ntilde; &amp;ograve; &amp;oacute; &amp;ocirc;  </nowiki></tt><br/>
<tt><nowiki>&amp;oelig;  &amp;otilde; &amp;ouml;  &amp;oslash; &amp;ugrave; &amp;uacute; </nowiki></tt><br>
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<tt><nowiki>&amp;oelig;  &amp;otilde; &amp;ouml;  &amp;oslash; &amp;ugrave; &amp;uacute; </nowiki></tt><br/>
 
<tt><nowiki>&amp;ucirc;  &amp;uuml;  &amp;yuml;                                          </nowiki></tt>
 
<tt><nowiki>&amp;ucirc;  &amp;uuml;  &amp;yuml;                                          </nowiki></tt>
 
</td>
 
</td>
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<tr valign=top>
 
<tr valign=top>
 
<td>
 
<td>
'''Punctuation:'''<br>
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'''Punctuation:'''<br/>
 
¿ ¡ « » § ¶<br>
 
¿ ¡ « » § ¶<br>
 
† ‡ • - – —
 
† ‡ • - – —
 
</td>
 
</td>
<td><br>
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<td><br/>
<tt><nowiki>&amp;iquest; &amp;iexcl;  &amp;laquo; &amp;raquo; &amp;sect; &amp;para; </nowiki></tt><br>
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<tt><nowiki>&amp;iquest; &amp;iexcl;  &amp;laquo; &amp;raquo; &amp;sect; &amp;para; </nowiki></tt><br/>
 
<tt><nowiki>&amp;dagger; &amp;Dagger; &amp;bull;  &amp;ndash; &amp;mdash;          </nowiki></tt>
 
<tt><nowiki>&amp;dagger; &amp;Dagger; &amp;bull;  &amp;ndash; &amp;mdash;          </nowiki></tt>
 
</td>
 
</td>
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<tr valign="top">
 
<tr valign="top">
 
<td>
 
<td>
'''Commercial symbols:'''<br>
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'''Commercial symbols:'''<br/>
 
™ © ® ¢ € ¥ £ ¤
 
™ © ® ¢ € ¥ £ ¤
 
</td>
 
</td>
<td><br>
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<td><br/>
 
<tt><nowiki>&amp;trade; &amp;copy; &amp;reg; &amp;cent; &amp;euro; &amp;yen; &amp;pound; &amp;curren;</nowiki></tt>
 
<tt><nowiki>&amp;trade; &amp;copy; &amp;reg; &amp;cent; &amp;euro; &amp;yen; &amp;pound; &amp;curren;</nowiki></tt>
 
</td>
 
</td>
 
</tr>
 
</tr>
<tr valign="top"><td>'''Greek characters:''' <br>
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<tr valign="top"><td>'''Greek characters:''' <br/>
α β γ δ ε ζ<br>
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α β γ δ ε ζ<br/>
η θ ι κ λ μ ν<br>
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η θ ι κ λ μ ν<br/>
ξ ο π ρ σ ς<br>
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ξ ο π ρ σ ς<br/>
τ υ φ χ ψ ω<br>
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τ υ φ χ ψ ω<br/>
Γ Δ Θ Λ Ξ Π<br>
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Γ Δ Θ Λ Ξ Π<br/>
Σ Φ Ψ Ω<br>
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Σ Φ Ψ Ω<br/>
 
</td>
 
</td>
<td><br>
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<td><br/>
<tt><nowiki>&amp;alpha; &amp;beta;    &amp;gamma; &amp;delta;  &amp;epsilon; &amp;zeta;            </nowiki></tt><br>
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<tt><nowiki>&amp;alpha; &amp;beta;    &amp;gamma; &amp;delta;  &amp;epsilon; &amp;zeta;            </nowiki></tt><br/>
<tt><nowiki>&amp;eta;  &amp;theta;  &amp;iota;  &amp;kappa;  &amp;lambda;  &amp;mu;    &amp;nu; </nowiki></tt><br>
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<tt><nowiki>&amp;eta;  &amp;theta;  &amp;iota;  &amp;kappa;  &amp;lambda;  &amp;mu;    &amp;nu; </nowiki></tt><br/>
<tt><nowiki>&amp;xi;    &amp;omicron; &amp;pi;    &amp;rho;    &amp;sigma;  &amp;sigmaf;          </nowiki></tt><br>
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<tt><nowiki>&amp;xi;    &amp;omicron; &amp;pi;    &amp;rho;    &amp;sigma;  &amp;sigmaf;          </nowiki></tt><br/>
<tt><nowiki>&amp;tau;  &amp;upsilon; &amp;phi;  &amp;chi;    &amp;psi;    &amp;omega;          </nowiki></tt><br>
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<tt><nowiki>&amp;tau;  &amp;upsilon; &amp;phi;  &amp;chi;    &amp;psi;    &amp;omega;          </nowiki></tt><br/>
<tt><nowiki>&amp;Gamma; &amp;Delta;  &amp;Theta; &amp;Lambda; &amp;Xi;      &amp;Pi;              </nowiki></tt><br>
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<tt><nowiki>&amp;Gamma; &amp;Delta;  &amp;Theta; &amp;Lambda; &amp;Xi;      &amp;Pi;              </nowiki></tt><br/>
 
<tt><nowiki>&amp;Sigma; &amp;Phi;    &amp;Psi;  &amp;Omega;                                      </nowiki></tt>
 
<tt><nowiki>&amp;Sigma; &amp;Phi;    &amp;Psi;  &amp;Omega;                                      </nowiki></tt>
 
</td>
 
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===Templates===
 
 
Templates let us put things onto pages automatically.
 
  
Some categories of articles use special templates.
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==Related Topics==
  
You add them by putting the template's name in <nowiki>{{double braces}}</nowiki>.
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*[[NovaRoma:Images for Romans|help article for images]]
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*[[NovaRoma:Templates | help article on templates]]. Templates let us put things like dates onto pages automatically.

Latest revision as of 10:07, 31 July 2013

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This is one of the Nova Roma wiki help files.

This is a quick guide for editing for Romans who are new to wikis.

  • If you just want to edit an existing article:
    • Please read section 1 "Editing: Basic steps" carefully.
    • Use the other sections as a reference for doing fancier things.
  • If you want to create a new article, it is just the same, but please also read about how to name articles.

N.B.: This isn't everything that you can do, but it is probably enough for most articles. More topics are covered in Advanced Wiki Editing for Romans.

Contents

Editing: Basic steps

The Fourfold Way

The Fourfold way is the basic set of steps used for all edits.

Step 1. Click the edit tab to start making your edits.

Step 2. Enter a note in the edit Summary so others know what you have done. A summary might be as simple as "fix typos", "add links" or "add photo". Not leaving a summary is very bad form.

Step 3. Show preview to check your changes. If it isn't right, go back and do more editing. Every time you save, you create a version of the page that will be saved forever. Unnecessary saves create unnecessary load when backing up the database. Be kind to the server and preview before saving.

Step 4. When you have checked everything, click Save page.

Start editing

To start editing a page, click on the "edit" link at the top of the page. This will bring you to the edit page: a page with a text box containing the wikitext: the editable source code from which the server produces the webpage. (If you just want to experiment, please do so on your user page.)

Editing is simple

In most cases you will just type (or paste) words, sentences, paragraphs or whole articles. It is just like typing. You can read below about making headings, lists and other fancy things.

Summarize your changes

You should write a short edit summary in the small field below the edit-box.

Minor edits

There is a check box that marks an edit as "minor". Minor edits are generally spelling corrections, formatting, and minor rearrangement of text. Other users may choose to hide minor edits when viewing Recent Changes.

Preview before saving

When you have finished, press Show preview to see how your changes will look -- before you make them permanent. Repeat the edit/preview process until you are satisfied, then click Save page and your changes will be immediately applied to the article.

Links

You will often want to make clickable links to other pages.

Link to another article in the wiki

To link to another article in this wiki, just type the article title inside [[double brackets]].

To link to the article "Choosing a Roman name", you would enter

[[Choosing a Roman name]] 

and it would appear in your article like this: Choosing a Roman name.

To make it fit smoothly in a sentence, you can make the first letter (only) lower case. If you type:

We have an article about [[choosing a Roman name]]

It will look like this: "We have an article about choosing a Roman name".

If you want to link to an article but you don't want to use the article's title, you can use the pipe character |. Start your link the same way, with the article title in double brackets, but then add the pipe character and then the words that you want to appear as your link.

We have an article about [[choosing a Roman name | picking a name]].

Appears as: "We have an article about picking a name".

Many articles here have titles like "Coin (Nova Roma)". If you don't want the "(Nova Roma)" part to appear, just make a normal link, add a pipe character and then add nothing. If you type

[[Coin (Nova Roma)|]] 

you will get this: "Coin".

If you add any letters right against the end of your link, they will become part of the link. If you type

 We have also minted several [[coin (Nova Roma)|]]s.

you will get this: "We have also minted several coins."

Link to things outside the wiki

To link to something outside the wiki, just enter the URL. If you type

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newroman/ 

you get a link that looks like this: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newroman/

If you want to give that link a name you must put it in single square brackets and add the name after the address, just leaving a space. So if you type this:

[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newroman/ a group for new citizens]

it will look like this: "a group for new citizens".

If you use the single square brackets and no link name, you will get a number. If you type

[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newroman/]

you will see this "[1]".

Category links

You can add your article to a category by putting in a category link.

A category is a special kind of page. It will automatically show an alphabetical list of all the articles that have a link to that category. Every article in that category has a link like this inside it:

[[Category:Nova Roma]]
  • Put a category link anywhere in the article, usually at the bottom or at the top.
  • The link to the category automatically appears at the bottom of the article.
  • An article can be in any number of categories.

To make a link to a category without adding the article to the category, just add a leading colon, like this:

[[:Category:Nova Roma]]

It will look like this: "Category:Nova Roma"

Of course, it now acts like a normal inside the wiki link, so all the other rules apply:

[[:Category:Senators (Nova Roma)|]]

Appears as: "Senators"

Date links

N.B. We have a special system for recent years. Put double braces around recent years in the common system. The wiki will convert these to consular dates with the common dating as hover text.

If you type  {{2006}}

it will become "K. Buteone Po. Minucia cos. MMDCCLIX a.u.c.".


Otherwise, always put double brackets around dates.

The Wiki reformats linked dates to match the reader's date preferences. These three dates will show up the same if you choose a format in your Preferences:

Always put double brackets around years AUC (in Roman numerals).

Redirection links

You can automatically forward readers from one article to another. For example, a reader who searches for "eagle" will be forwarded automatically to the article on Aquila heliaca.

The article "Eagle" contains just this:

#REDIRECT [[Aquila heliaca]]

The redirection happens automatically. If you add a redirect to an existing article, everything else in that article will be deleted, so use redirects carefully.


Dividing the text

Making paragraphs

Leave an empty line to start a new paragraph. A single return is ignored, but two returns (a blank line) starts a new paragraph. Do not use <p>.

Making sections

Divide an article into sections by putting a heading on a new line and surrounding it with double equals signs:

==Section heading==

Make subsection headings the same way, but use three equals signs:

===Sub-section heading===
  • Start with two equals signs; don't use single equals signs.
  • make smaller divisions with more equals signs.
  • Don't skip levels: two equals signs should be followed by three equals signs, not four equals signs.

A table of contents will be generated automatically for any article with four or more headings.

Do not use <h1>, <h2> etc..

Italics and bold

You can put words into italics or bold by surrounding them with apostrophes (or single quotes).

Italics are used for words in another language (e.g. Latin). They are not used for emphasis.

Bold is used for emphasis.

The emphasise a word in a foreign language, you can use bold italics.

  1. Put two apostrophes around the bit you want to make italic: ''Non-English word'' --> Non-English word.
  2. Put three apostrophes around the bit you want to make bold: '''Emphasised word''' --> Emphasised word.
  3. Put five apostrophes around the bit you want to make bold and italic: '''''Emphasised non-English word''''' --> Emphasised non-English word (usually bold italic).

It is considered bad form to use ALL CAPS for emphasis.

Lists

Unordered lists

  • Start every list item on a new line.
  • Put an asterix in front of each item.
  • This list looks like this:
*Start every list item on a new line.
*Put an asterix in front of each item.
*This list looks like this:

Ordered lists

  1. Start every list item on a new line.
  2. Put a number sign in front of each item.
  3. This list looks like this:
#Start every list item on a new line.
#Put a number sign in front of each item.
#This list looks like this:

Definition lists

  • Put each item to define on a new line
  • Put a semicolon before each item
  • Put a colon between each item and its definition


Item to define 
A nice definition that can be as long or as short as you want.
;Item to define : A nice definition that can be as long or as short as you want.


Using footnotes

It's of utmost importance that for all claims in a scholarly article of our website we use references in footnotes. It does not only assures our readers they are reading a high quality, researched and verified article, but it greatly hepls them in further research, to find the ancient sources, the latest scholarship, authors etc., so that they can conduct researches themselves, or deepen their understanding and Romannes.

To create a footnote, determine the point in the page content where the footnote is desired and enter the markup with the citation or note inside the <ref>TEXT OF THE FOOTNOTE</ref> tags. A numeral indicating the footnote and the footnote iself will automatically appear on the page at the point where you put this tag: <references/> For example:

This is the text on the page that needs a footnote in the "references" section below.<ref>''LibreOffice For Starters'', First Edition, Flexible Minds, Manchester, 2002, p. 18</ref>	
<references/>

It will look like this:

This is the text on the page that needs a footnote in the "references" section below.[1]

  1. LibreOffice For Starters, First Edition, Flexible Minds, Manchester, 2002, p. 18


Attention: there must be no space before or after the <ref>TEXT OF THE FOOTNOTE</ref> tags. If there is a space there, the text will show error.

Special characters

Now that Mediawiki (the software that makes this wiki go) supports UTF-8, many of these can be entered directly into articles, without the HTML markup.

Umlauts and accents:
À Á Â Ã Ä Å
Æ Ç È É Ê Ë
Ì Í Î Ï Ñ Ò
Ó Ô Õ Ö Ø Ù
Ú Û Ü ß à á
â ã ä å æ ç
è é ê ë ì í
î ï ñ ò ó ô
œ õ ö ø ù ú
û ü ÿ


&Agrave; &Aacute; &Acirc; &Atilde; &Auml; &Aring;
&AElig; &Ccedil; &Egrave; &Eacute; &Ecirc; &Euml;
&Igrave; &Iacute; &Icirc; &Iuml; &Ntilde; &Ograve;
&Oacute; &Ocirc; &Otilde; &Ouml; &Oslash; &Ugrave;
&Uacute; &Ucirc; &Uuml; &szlig; &agrave; &aacute;
&acirc; &atilde; &auml; &aring; &aelig; &ccedil;
&egrave; &eacute; &ecirc; &euml; &igrave; &iacute;
&icirc; &iuml; &ntilde; &ograve; &oacute; &ocirc;
&oelig; &otilde; &ouml; &oslash; &ugrave; &uacute;
&ucirc; &uuml; &yuml;

Punctuation:
¿ ¡ « » § ¶
† ‡ • - – —


&iquest; &iexcl; &laquo; &raquo; &sect; &para;
&dagger; &Dagger; &bull; &ndash; &mdash;

Commercial symbols:
™ © ® ¢ € ¥ £ ¤


&trade; &copy; &reg; &cent; &euro; &yen; &pound; &curren;

Greek characters:

α β γ δ ε ζ
η θ ι κ λ μ ν
ξ ο π ρ σ ς
τ υ φ χ ψ ω
Γ Δ Θ Λ Ξ Π
Σ Φ Ψ Ω


&alpha; &beta; &gamma; &delta; &epsilon; &zeta;
&eta; &theta; &iota; &kappa; &lambda; &mu; &nu;
&xi; &omicron; &pi; &rho; &sigma; &sigmaf;
&tau; &upsilon; &phi; &chi; &psi; &omega;
&Gamma; &Delta; &Theta; &Lambda; &Xi; &Pi;
&Sigma; &Phi; &Psi; &Omega;


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