User:Jonesey95/Tools

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I use this page as a parking lot for templates that I need to remember how to use.

Convenience link: Special:MassPurge

Display a given page in a specific skin

e.g. Vector, Timeless, Monobook

?useskin=vector-2022

?useskin=vector

?useskin=timeless

?useskin=monobook

?useskin=minerva

?useskin=modern

?useskin=cologneblue

?safemode=1

?dtenable=1  (enable beta Discussion Tools)

?useparsoid=1 (use Parsoid to render) 

?useparsoid=0 (force old renderer)

?vectornightmode=1  (force night mode in Vector, scheduled to work in May 2024)

?minervanightmode=1&useskin=minerva  (force night mode)

Report Parsoid problems at mw:Parsoid/Parser Unification/Known Issues.

Null edit all articles with a given template?

To be used sparingly, but it might be useful for templates that do not have a ton of usage: if you want to speed up the filling process, (1) install "User:Frietjes/masspurge.js" (done in vector.js) and (2) go to Special:MassPurge and (3) put "Template:Infobox royalty" (or the template you want to purge) in the top box and (4) press the top purge button. if it works, the bottom box will fill up with the list of all the transclusions and it will start purging each one.

You can also paste a list of articles in the bottom box instead of putting a template in the top box.

This works will purge one article every four or five seconds.

Categories to watch

Category search tools

Backlog checklist

More information Category, Current status ...
Backlog status (Purge)
Category Current status
CS1 errors: arXiv‎  Done
CS1 errors: ASIN  Done
CS1 errors: bibcode‎  Done
CS1 errors: coauthors without author  Done
CS1 errors: DOI  Not done
CS1 errors: invalid parameter value  Not done
CS1 errors: ISBN‎‎  Not done
CS1 errors: ISSN‎‎  Not done
CS1 errors: LCCN‎  Done
CS1 errors: OCLC  Done
CS1 errors: OL  Done
CS1 errors: parameter link‎  Not done
CS1 errors: PMC‎  Done
CS1 errors: PMID‎  Done
CS1 errors: translated title‎‎  Not done
Pages with empty citations‎  Done
Pages with citations having redundant parameters‎  Done
Pages with citations using unnamed parameters‎  Done
Pages with citations using unsupported parameters‎  Done
URL–wikilink conflict  Not done
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GOCE Coordinator Tasks

Typing a pipe character

To type a pipe character within a template or elsewhere, use this template: {{!}}

See Help:Template#Pipe.

GOCE notice for Talk page

The syntax for the article's Talk page template is:

{{GOCE |user={{subst:REVISIONUSER}} |date={{subst:date}} |small= }}

It looks like this:

WikiProject iconGuild of Copy Editors
WikiProject iconThis article was copy edited by Jonesey95, a member of the Guild of Copy Editors, on April 12, 2013.

The syntax for the requester's Talk page template is:

{{GOCEtb
| article = foobar
| sign = message here. ~~~~
}}

It looks like this:

Template:Clarify

{{Clarify}} Looks like this:[clarification needed]


Use {{Dead link}} or {{dl}} when you find a dead link to a website within a paragraph or a reference citation. Doing so will place a note by the URL and add the article to one of the Category:Articles with dead external links categories.

Append this template directly after the link or template, leaving the original link intact. Not doing so will prevent detection from automated tools. If the citation contains multiple URLs (e.g. chapterurl and url) in a template, and only one is broken, you can use <!-- hidden text --> to explain which one is broken.

If the article uses clickable footnotes, then this tag should be placed just before the </ref> that contains the dead link. The notice will then correctly appear in the reference section (instead of in the body of the text, which is not recommended).

Template:Convert

Examples of the Convert template:

  • {{convert|32|F|C}} results in 32 °F (0 °C)
  • {{convert|32|ft|m}} results in 32 feet (9.8 m)
  • {{convert|32|PD/sqmi|PD/sqkm}} results in 32 inhabitants per square mile (12/km2)
  • {{convert|60|and|170|kg|lb}} results in 60 and 170 kilograms (130 and 370 lb)

WP:MOS shortcuts

Template:Multiple issues

The syntax for the template is:

{{Multiple issues|
{{Issue 1}}
{{Issue 2}}
{{Issue 3}}
...
}}

WP:Template_messages/Cleanup

List of Cleanup messages.

WP:COATRACK

The syntax for the template is:

{{coat rack}}

References need expanding or improvement

The syntax for the template is:

{{refimprove}} or {{refimprove section}}

WP:HAT

How to make a redirect

To create a basic redirect manually, set #REDIRECT[[target page name here]] as the only body text of the page. For instance, if you were redirecting from "UKUK" to "United Kingdom", this would be the entire body of the "UK" pageUK:

#REDIRECT [[United Kingdom]]

Template:Reflist

How to create a nice-looking list of references. A good multi-column list is

{{reflist|30em}}

(using |2 is deprecated).

WP:DE-ORPHAN

Edit summary to use when you de-orphan an article: Successfully de-orphaned! Wikiproject Orphanage: [[WP:ORPHAN|You can help!]]

I can't believe that searching for Wookieelink in Wikipedia shows zero results.

How to exclude an article from Category:Articles with incorrect citation syntax

To exclude a Template documentation article from a subcategory of Category:Articles with incorrect citation syntax because it is a demonstration of how a template can generate an error, insert

|no-tracking=yes

into the citation.

If it's a custom cite template, the following needs to be included in the template code, in the {{cite web}} (or other cite template) code:

|no-tracking={{{no-tracking|}}}

After the above is added, the template documentation may need a null edit, after which the template needs one more null edit for it to be removed from the error category (or you can wait for the job queue to get around to it, if you're the patient type).

How to see CITEREF

Trying two things.
One author with displayauthors
{{citation |displayauthors=1 |last1=one |year=2001 |title=Title}}
one (2001), Title {{citation}}: Invalid |display-authors=1 (help) generates CITEREFone2001
One author with last2=et al.
{{citation |last1=one |last2=''et al.'' |year=2001 |title=Title}}
one; et al. (2001), Title {{citation}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |last2= (help) generates CITEREFoneet_al.2001
Jonesey95 (talk) 18:53, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
You can determine a CITEREF by viewing the page source; search for
<span id="CITEREF
and it goes from there to the next double quote. Alternatively, fill in the parameters of {{harvid}} and sandbox it:
{{harvid|one|2001}}CITEREFone2001
{{harvid|one|et al.|2001}}CITEREFoneet_al.2001
I've filled them in above. One reason not to use et al. but instead supply all the authors and set |displayauthors= is so that all of them get added to the COinS metadata. -- Redrose64

To generate a custom CITEREF, add ref={{harvid|Custom Name}} to the end of the citation.

Protection levels

Protection levels for WP articles: Wikipedia:Protection_policy#Comparison_table

Make an in-line link to an article in another Wikipedia like this:

[[:fr:Joseph_de_Carayon-Latour|Joseph de Carayon La Tour]]

It looks like Joseph de Carayon La Tour.

To link to Commons, do this: [[:commons:User:Example|Example]]

Use {{ill}}, {{ill2}}, or {{ill-WD}} to show both a redlink and an interlanguage link (ill and ill-WD will both hide the interlanguage link should the redlink turn blue). {{ill}} is used like this:

{{ill|Sigmund Jakobsen|no}} Sigmund Jakobsen [no]

  • {{ill|Charles Darwin (botanist)|lt=Darwin|fr|Charles Darwin|de|Charles Darwin|es|Charles Darwin}} produces: Darwin [fr; de; es]

A simple example:

{{ill|Sheladize|ku}}

A slightly more complex example:

{{ill|Fall of Pajajaran|id|Invasi Pajajaran oleh Banten}}

  • Fall of Pajajaran [id]

Citation Bot development version

PMC to PMID to DOI converter

To check if a given article has a DOI, PMC, or PMID, enter one of the identifiers at the PMID converter web page.

Compare two pages

Coloring text

More information What you type, What it looks like ...
What you type What it looks like

I will change the color in {{color|blue|the middle part of}} this sentence.

I will change the color in the middle part of this sentence.

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Show all pages with a given prefix

Show citation text and rendering

More information Markup, Renders as ...
Cite journal
MarkupRenders as
{{cite journal|author=Author|title=Title|journal=Journal name|pages=56-62}}

Author. "Title". Journal Name: 56–62. {{cite journal}}: |author= has generic name (help)

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More information Markup, Renders as ...
Cite book
MarkupRenders as
{{cite book|author=Author|chapter=Chapter name|title=Book Title|pages=56-62}}

Author. "Chapter name". Book Title. pp. 56–62. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)

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Purge CS1 citations

Run Citation Bot against a category

Is YYYY-MM an acceptable date format? (Feb–Apr 2014)

Hiding date errors (Sep–Oct 2013)

Cite doi templates (Sep 2014)

Hyphenated citation parameters (Jul 2014)

Medical articles: replace cite doi and cite pmid with cite journal and a previous discussion of a similar topic (Jan 2015, Mar 2014)

Month abbreviations (Jan 2014)

Excluding namespaces from CS1 error categories (Sep 2013)

Small caps only when it changes the meaning (May 2015)

Deprecation of Cite doi templates (Sep 2015)

Deprecation of Cite PMID templates (Oct 2015)

Religion in infoboxes (Apr 2016)

residence parameter in infobox person (December 2019)

home_town/hometown parameter in infobox person and related person infoboxes (August 2020)

Ethnicity in infoboxes (April 2016)

Four-digit years at the end of year ranges (July 2016)

Coordinates in infoboxes (Aug 2016) (see also Wikipedia:Coordinates in infoboxes, the mini-project page)

Future of magic links (ISBN, RFC, PMID) (Feb 2017)

This March 2017 (English Wikipedia) RfC determined that these magic links on the English Wikipedia should be replaced by the {{ISBN}}, {{PMID}}, and {{IETF RFC}} templates.

Templates should have English parameters (not an RFC, not officially closed) (Feb 2017)

Pulling short descriptions from Wikidata (February 2018)

No small font sizes in infoboxes (April 2018)

Move DYKs out of Template space (April 2018)

Deprecation of inline parenthetical referencing (within prose, outside of ref tags) (Sep 2020) (use {{Format footnotes}})

Wikipedia:Wikidata/2018_Infobox_RfC#Discussion (June 2018) – most recent RFC on wikidata in infoboxes

Wikipedia_talk:External_links/Archive_40#RFC_on_how_to_format_external_links (Sep 2020) – do not use cite templates in the External links section

Native name discussions:

Large decorative quote marks in article space (March 2020) (cquote template)

RFC on unhyphenated parameters (April 2021, first close, later overturned)

Template:BibISBN TFD; Cite ISBN TFD with link to deleted discussion about deleting all Cite ISBN templates. Example TFD for an ISBN XXX template

Non-RFC discussion about hyphenation in ISBNs (in favor of it) (May 2023)

RFC on bots fixing obsolete tags like font/center/tt/strike (March 2023)

Disallowing obsolete tags in signatures (December 2023)

Catscan searches

Template test cases and sandbox templates

Foreign-language citation templates to change to auto-substitution

See the See Also section at {{Cytuj stronę}}.

Most of these are done. Add templates with over 100 transclusions to User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force.

Help:Magic words

Help:Magic_words#Parser_functions for ifeq, ifexpr, switch, urlencode, CURRENTMONTH, formatting commands, and other magic words and parser functions.

Template for articles needing further translation

Templates I have edited (with useful code snippets)

Templates to edit

Notability guideline for lists of alumni

Generate Cite journal template from DOI

Subst a cite doi or cite jstor reference

Italicize part of an article title

How to send a mass message

Unicode character analysis

Regex for "any character until a given character"

How to show a rendered citation, including categories

Job queue takes 90+ days

Redlinked templates (wanted templates)

Project for ambitious WP programmer (or student)

Regular expression reference

Central banner notices

Phabricator bug tracking

Replacing Tidy

Safe mode

Copy edit category note

New word count script to try

Template parameter values start with colon, semicolon, asterisk, pound sign

Expand templates

Templates for responding to edit-protected requests

Check citations (references) for consistency

Editing restrictions on specific editors

Why I never touch TemplateData

See which version of Mediawiki and extensions are installed

Vanity

HTML entity codes

JSONLint

Force edit with Visual Editor

List of wikitext editors (including Visual Editor) as of mid-2020

How to see what MediaWiki page generates a system-level message

Wikipedia Library access

Templates starting with http

Character sorting order

Page count by namespace

How to use CS1 wrapper template

Foreign language template translation instead of redirect

How to add child/embed support to an infobox

Format footnotes template

Web-based color picker

Nested footnotes FAQ

Yet another reason to avoid becoming an admin, or even interacting with some admins

Redirects from typos in template space

Watch a page without watching the talk page

Message to template editor about test cases and sandbox

Apply magic word to a different page

Why unnamed parameters are bad

replace spaces or other text

Instructions for sloppy template editors

TFD about redirects to Template:End

Userbox namespace guideline

How page images are chosen

Check for errors in Module:Political party

Find hex color from image

Infobox template pages containing small tags

How to replace rail style templates

subst code to replace template including parameters

Watchlist notices / messages

How to change the number of items shown on Linter reports

Database report template

Mapframe parameters for unknown parameter check

Workarounds for newline caused by # * : ; at start of parameter value causing a new line

Purge an image that has and outdated cached image at one or more sizes

Add a period (full stop) to an argument if it does not have one

One way to close a tag in Lua

How to convert Cite Q to a real citation template

Create a database report from a query

How to remove markup from automatic short descriptions

BRFA bot tasks to remember

Module:Is infobox in lead

Examples of pages where Linter errors caused the whole page or section to change formatting after a certain point

Fix fostered content at start of table with noinclude tags

Remember the dot's syntax highlighter instructions

Filtering out pages with EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE magic word

How to fix pxpx in templates

Sockpuppets

How to force the Internet Archive to save a page

Previous TFDs for Use XX English templates

How to prevent top Search box from matching the wrong case

Linter error category id numbers

Color contrast checking tool

Text for reviewed copy edit category

100 smallest (shortest) articles needing copy edit

List transcluded templates by edit date

List of Special: pages

Invalid image options: file name used as default caption

Qwerf Linter bot and line breaks

Documentation for the "improved syntax highlighting" beta feature (as of 2025)

MassMessage info

CSS colors for dark mode

Search for line break (new line newline)

Search result page thumbnail information

How to make AutoEd scripts load in a consistent order

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