My "Tips and Tricks" Page.

Please feel free to add/expand/correct!

Style Edit

• Dashes. Use "& n d a s h;" This yields " – ". We use it for offsetting parenthetical statements – such as this – to comply with MA's style guidelines.

Linking Edit

Internal Linking Edit

• Linking to a section (anchor) in an article: [[Borg drone#Borg drone technology]] yields Borg drone#Borg drone technology.
• Generic episode. {{e|Faces}} yields "Faces".
• Series-specific. {{VOY|Faces}} yields VOY: "Faces".
• Films. {{film|7}} yields Star Trek Generations.
• Multiples. {{VOY|Faces|Drone}} yields VOY: "Faces", "Drone".
• Ships. {{USS|Voyager}} yields USS Voyager.

External Linking Edit

• External links, type 1. [http://google.com] yields [1] – an unlabeled, numbered link.
• External links, type 2. [http://google.com Google] yields Google – a labeled link.
• External Wikipedia links. {{w|Star Trek}} yields Star Trek – an unlabeled, non-obvious link (though I've noticed if you zoom in, you can see a "Wikipedia" icon. Neat!
• An explicit Wikipedia link.  {{wikipedia|Memory Alpha|Memory Alpha}} yields Memory Alpha at Wikipedia.
• A link to another Wikia wiki. [[w:c:stexpanded|Worf]] yields Worf – a "Wikia internal" link.

Links with special characters Edit

Note: I copied – verbatim – the following from Morder's sub-page, User:Morder/Strange. Thank you, Morder!

• If you want to add an external url within a template param that contains an = sign [note: or other special character]...you'll have to format it with &#x3D
• Example: Museum of the Confederacy

[Here are the common characters found in Web links]

&#x20; <space>
&#x21; !
&#x22; "
&#x23; #
&#x24; $
&#x25; %
&#x26; &
&#x27; '
&#x28; (
&#x29; )
&#x2A; *
&#x2B; +
&#x2C; `
&#x2D; -
&#x2E; .
&#x2F; /
&#x3A; :
&#x3B; ;
&#x3C; <
&#x3D; =
&#x3E; >
&#x3F; ?