User:Foo2

Since Ninjamask and I (Foo2) have been cleaning up the wiki pages, trying to use practical templates to make the look more consistent, I will be putting together a list of tips (as reminder to myself), but quite possibly also useful for the wikipedians out there as well.

Todo

Add link to the templates...
Mention how to make the most of the link related templates with real-world examples.
Tips & Ideas on "nice" layout.
...

Using templates to manage links more easily

As you can see the templates significantly reduce the information noise, and are easier to handle than the full URLs. This should also help avoid typos.

{{short}} - AniDB short links

http://anidb.info/p13        ->   {{short|p13}}
http://anidb.net/post59971   ->   {{short|post59971}}

{{AniDBLink}} - AniDB links

[http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=userpage user page] 
  ->   {{AniDBLink|userpage|user page}}
http://www.anidb.net/cgi-bin/animedb.pl?show=file&size=247822336&hash=7762
  ->   {{AniDBLink|file|size|247822336|hash|7762}}

Wikipedia references

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page How to edit a page]
  ->   [[Wikipedia:How to edit a page|How to edit a page]]

{{OldThreadLink}} - Old Forum links

http://forum.anidb.net/viewtopic.php?t=5653      ->   {{OldThreadLink|5653}}
http://www.anidb.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=933   ->   {{OldThreadLink|933}}

{{t}} - Links to the Bugtracker

[http://tracker.anidb.info/view.php?id=498 convert to html]   ->   {{t|498|convert to html}}

... more to come ...

Consistent Capitalization of Names

Where possible spell these terms exactly as shown:

AniDB
MyList
Avdump
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Avoiding HTML, when Wiki Code exists

The wiki very much supports HTML tags in the textareas, but since it comes with it's own set of convenient "tags", it is a good idea to use the latter, if possible:

<b>...</b>   ->   '''...'''
<i>...</i>   ->   ''...''

...

Tips

How to colour text?

Use the {{colour}} template to colour text, this way you can avoid having to use ... or ..., e.g.

{{colour|blue|blah blah blah}}      ->  HTML colour name used to colour "blah blah blah" blue.
{{colour|#FF8000|oink oink oink}}   ->  HTML colour code used to colour "oink oink oink" orange.

Note

"Manually" colouring text is actually *not* recommended style-wise, but if you really need to colour text the template should help.

Note	The template has problems colouring more than one line, i.e. several paragraphs, so be sure to double-check its usage.

Use of

Empty lines in the Wiki code do *not* require a   at the end of the previous paragraph, i.e.

blah<br>

more blah

is redundant, remove the  :

blah

more blah

--- everything is still very much todo ---