Help:Testing

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Editing overview

Starting a new page

  1. Page name

Images and other uploaded files

  1. Image description page

Special characters

Formatting

  1. Formula
  2. Table
  3. EasyTimeline syntax

Referencing

  1. Link
  2. Piped link
  3. Interwiki linking
  4. Variable
  5. URL

Organizing

  1. Sections
  2. Templates
  3. Category
  4. Redirect
  5. Renaming (moving) a page
  6. Namespace

Saving effort (not having to write something, or copy and paste)

  1. Automatic conversion of wikitext
  2. Editing toolbar

HTML in wikitext

Fixing mistakes and vandalism

  1. Reverting a page to an earlier version

Communicating

  1. Edit summary
  2. Talk page
  3. Edit conflict
  4. Minor edit

Testing Before commiting to a change, one should test it first.

Changes to a page

There is a preview button near the submit button. One should check to make sure that the links are correct and the spelling is correct

Spelling

LinuxQuestions.org appears to have a spelling checker in their modified version of MediaWiki, one can use Konqueror or Firefox with a spelling check extension to check spelling within the browser window. There are several spelling utilities they may be useful (e.g. the Google toolbar has a spellcheck feature).

Testing features

This applies anyway for tests that depend on settings which are different per project, such as:

  • tests depending on other content, such as templates, images
  • tests depending on project-specific variables such as namespace prefixes

It can be done:

  • on user pages and subpages
  • using Preview - this can not be used to test how a change in a page affects another page, such as when changing a template; when used to test it only shows the rendered webpage, not the new wikitext itself, except for automatic conversion of special characters to their decimal numeric codes.

A test involving variable {{PAGENAME}}, e.g. a link to an image or another page with a name containing {{PAGENAME}}, can be done on the Talk page, since the value of the variable is the same on that page.

Sysops testing the available links and how things work for ordinary logged-in users can log in under another name, or in a project for which they are not a sysop.

Test wiki

http://test.wikipedia.org/.

An advantage is that is does not interfere with, or clutter, the regular projects. The project may be reset, or history may otherwise be lost, so one has to save elsewhere what one wants to keep.


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Help contents
Reading
Go|Search|Stop words|URL|Namespace|Page name|Section
Backlinks|Link|Piped link|Interwiki link|Redirect|Category|Image page
Logging in and preferences
Logging in|Preferences|User style|Special page
Keeping track of changes
Recent changes (enhanced)|Related changes|Watching pages|Page history
Diff|Edit summary|Minor edit|User contributions
Editing
Filling the page|Starting a new page|List|Table|Special characters
Template|Magic words|Renaming (moving) a page|Editing shortcuts
Talk page|Testing
Advanced
Advanced templates|Array|Parameter default|Variable|Substitution
Displaying a formula|EasyTimeline|Inputbox|Uploading files|Calculation
Lists of resources
Categories|Stub types|Infoboxes|Templates|Shortcuts

This page is a copy of the master help page at Meta (for general help information), with Wikipedia-specific templates inserted. To update the general help, edit the master help page for all projects at m:Help:Testing. For Wikipedia-specific help, there are two templates - the main template, Template:Ph:Testing, is the extra text at the bottom of this page, before the links to other help pages. Template:Phh:Testing appears at the top of this help page and is useful for Wikipedia-specific lead text. You are welcome to copy the exact wikitext from the master page at Meta and paste it into this page at any time.


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