User:Bryceman99/Coaching/Basic formatting

The goal of this lesson is to get familiar with basic ways to format Wikipedia pages, using wiki markup. Some of the tasks should be very easy, but others may require you to figure out how to do them by exploring other pages and articles and seeing how things are done there; if something is difficult, don't be afraid to check out lots of Wikipedia pages and try to see how other people have handled these formatting issues.

Preparation

Go through the Wikipedia tutorial if you have not already.

Exercises

For each question below, edit this page to do the task asked in the question, then save the page to save your result. I will leave comments to your responses later. Send me a message whenever you finish, or if you are stumped by any of these and don't know what to do.

Links

1. In the space below here, type out a link to Wikipedia's article about Manga.

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That's not right; what I mean is an internal link that displays the text "Manga" as well as linking, and doesn't have that little arrow. Like the kinds of links you see in all articles. Also, this link is for "Magna", not "Manga"; be careful about spelling! Anyway, try out the tutorial and them come back to this, it should be easy then. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 12:42, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

2. In the space below here, type out a link to Wikipedia's article about Manga, but instead of displaying the article name, make it display the words "check out this article" (but so that it still goes to the Manga article if you click it).

3. In the space below here, type out a link that goes directly to the "International markets" section of the article about Manga. You can make the link display however you like.

4. In the space below here, type out a link to your user talk page.

5. In the space below here, type out a link to any page, but make it show up in bold letters. Next to it, type a link to the same page but in italics, and another link to the same page in bold italics.

Bullets, numbering, and indenting

1. In the space below here, make a bulleted list of five ice cream flavors.

2. In the space below here, make a numbered list of five colors.

3. In the space below here, type out any sentence, and then another sentence below it. The sentence below should be indented deeper than the sentence on top.

Footnotes

For this section, you will first need to read this short New York Times article.

1. In one paragraph below here, summarize the article in your own words. Make sure to include at least once specific fact (ie, a particular number or something).

2. Using <ref></ref> tags, put at least two footnotes in the paragraph (one footnote for the specific fact, and at least one more footnote to cover the rest of the information; the second footnote will probably go at the end of the paragraph). The footnotes should have links that point to the New York Times article you read. After making footnotes, create a References section at the bottom of this page, so that the footnotes will show up there.

3. Go to the Lolcat article and click the "edit" button so you can see the code in that article. Look at how the {{cite web}} template is used in that article, within <ref></ref> tags. Then, come back to the paragraph you wrote here, and re-write your footnotes using the {{cite web}} template, filling in as much information as you can (at the very least, you should be able to fill in the |url=, |title=, |date=, |accessdate=, |work=, and |author= parts).

4. Go to the second search result here (a direct link to the article is this). Using that article as a source, add a footnote (with <ref></ref> tags and the {{cite web}} template) to the sentence below (you will have to figure out what to list for the author, date, title, publisher, etc.)

Hunter X Hunter was originally released in 1999.

Using cleanup tags

1. Imagine that this sentence is in an article and it is lacking a source. Put a tag at the end of this sentence to show "citation needed". (Hint... if you don't know how to create this tag, take a look at any of the articles in Category:All articles with unsourced statements; they all have "citation needed" tags.)

2. Now imagine that this entire page is an article and it doesn't have any sources. Place a large cleanup template at the top of this article, stating that this page needs references. (Hint... if you don't know how to make this tag, look at any of the articles listed here.)