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Naming pages

Here are some important notes about naming pages:

• Notice that in URLs spaces in the title are converted into underscores ( _ ). If you type spaces rather than underscores in your title, it won't work.
• On pages themselves, a page title can have a lowercase letter first, <code>like this</code>--but the link points to a page that has the first letter uppercase, <code>Like_this</code> .
• You can still use the old page naming convention, which consists of mashing words together and capitalizing them, LikeThis.
• Don't use single quotes in titles. Sorry, but <code>Plato's Republic</code> won't work as a page name.
• In sum, examine the following examples.
• Good URLs:

:<code>http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/My_new_page</code>

:<code>http://www.wikipedia.com/wikiBacteria</code>

:<code>http://www.wikipedia.com/wikiJimboWales</code>

:<code>http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Platos_Republic</code>

• Bad URLs:

:<code>http://www.wikipedia.com/wikiMy new page</code>

:<code>http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/my_new_page</code>

:<code>http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/bacteria</code>

:<code>http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/jimbowales</code>

:<code>http://www.wikipedia.com/wikiPlato's_Republic</code>

• Good links:

:<code>my new page</code>

:<code>My new page</code>

:<code>JimboWales</code>

:<code>Platos Republic</code>

:<code>Plato's Republic</code>

• Bad links:

:<code>my_new_page</code> (underscores not necessary)

:<code>My_new_page</code> (underscores not necessary)

:<code>jimbowales</code> (needs two capital letters)

:<code>Plato's Republic</code> (will not link to the page you want it to link to)

• See naming conventions when choosing names for pages!

Demonstration area

::What follows is an area for demonstrating the various effects possible using Wikipedia, such as bold, italics, numbered lists, etc., etc. Click "edit" on this page (i.e., the page you are now reading!) to see how these effects were achieved.

New paragraphs are made by simply pressing the "enter" or "return" key twice. If you press it just once,

like this,

a new paragraph will not be made (as you can see).

:This line is indented.

::This line is indented even farther.

This line is indented, but since I didn't use a colon ( : )

at the beginning of the line, it appears as a monospace font.

In other words, if you begin a paragraph with a space, that

line will be both indented and in a monospace font.

(Also, this line will not wrap! It will simply increase the width of your window.)

:This line is in italics.

:And so is this one!

:And this!

:This line is bold.

:So is this one!

:Here is an old style link: HomePage

:Here is a new style link: Larry Sanger (see Free Links)

:the text of this link is different from the name of the page it links to

:it really doesn't MatterWhat youType in the...link description. It's all linked!

:An external link: http://www.nupedia.com/about.shtml

:Another external link: Nupedia about page

Here is a numbered list:

:#Neither is this line

Here is a bulleted list:

*Here's an item

• Here's another item

**We can do bullets within bullets, as it were

• Pretty nifty, huh?

You can make a line on a page: ----

Or two, if you wish:

There are two ways to display, rather than parse, wiki code:

(We made liberal use of the <code><code></code> tag on this page.)

:You can (and should!) create subpages: Talk

:You can link to other subpages: Charlize Theron/Filmography or even charlize Theron/Filmography but please, not Charlize Theron/filmography .

We can do tables:

<table border=1>

<tr>

<td>Item one</td>

<td>Item two</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>Item three</td>

<td>Item four</td>

</tr>

</table>

Fancy table:

<table border=1>

<tr>

<td>Item one</td>

<td>Item two</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td rowspan=2>Item three</td>

<td>Item four</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>Item five</td>

</tr>

</table>

Here's another way to make a table:

||||||Heading||

||cell 1||cell2||cell 3||

||cell 1||||spanning 2 columns||

:(We haven't implemented that way of doing tables, as you can see.)

A few special characters

<table width=30% border=2>

<tr><td>129<td>ü</tr>

<tr><td>130<td>é</tr>

<tr><td>160<td>á</tr>

<tr><td>161<td>í</tr>

<tr><td>162<td>ó</tr>

<tr><td>163<td>ú</tr>

<tr><td>164<td>ñ</tr>

<tr><td>165<td>Ñ</tr>

</table>

You can make ^superscripts and _subscripts and you can control the font size and color!

*f(x) = a₀ + a₁x₁ + a₂x₂² + a₃x₃³ + ...

*f(x) = a₀ + a₁x₁ + a₂x₂² + a₃x₃³ + ...

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