User:Pat Palmer/sandbox/examples

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About WP

One side effect of Wikipedia's style of operation is that certain articles have fallen under the control of a specific author, or small group of authors, who are driven by a narrow viewpoint and who abuse the complex rules of the wiki to prevent relative outsiders to introducing needed changes to the article. Since their identity is unknown, no one can really challenge their claims of expertise about a topic. They may cite books written by non-experts as authoritative, for example. Because they operate marginally within the rules of the wiki and may be well-known in the community because highly active, they are nearly impossible to defeat. Although this unethical but allowed "trolling" activity only occurs on a relatively small percentage of articles, it does mean that certain important topics are relatively biased and open debate is suppressed by, for example, immediately archiving dissenting remarks left on the article's Talk page, making it seem to readers as though there is no disagreement. This does not occur on Citizendium, where article Talk pages are not supposed to be archived except due to length or to remove abusive content.

Ad verbiage

The Citizendium wants to be a small, supportive community of collaborators who work on articles which could not be developed in Wikipedia, that are different from what Wikipedia now offers, though not necessarily either better or worse. Please understand that we love Wikipedia; most of us consult it several times per day. But we also understand its limitations, and that's why we support The Citizendium also, not as a competitor but as supplement. We acknowledge and honor Wikipedia's successes in seeking to be a complete compendium of everything; it would be futile to duplicate that effort. We also believe that the philosophy of "less is more" sometimes applies, where an important aspect of a topic can be emphasized without trying to include everything known about a given topic in a single article.

The Citizendium provides a different kind of collaborative environment than Wikipedia now offers. We use real names, and we have a modest number of active authors so that it becomes possible to know each other well. We strive for objectivity and quality--and civility. We consider ourselves to be a community. To help address control issues, we're open to having multiple articles developed on a single topic (to be located via a disambiguation page). For those who want more fully lead the direction of an article, we allow "lead authors" on articles. Led articles can still be collaborations, but the declared article leaders are the ones who get to guide the direction and emphasis of the article.

We have no problem whatsoever with people using The Citizendium as a staging area for an article to be copied elsewhere later (such as to Wikipedia, where it will likely be seen by more eyes). This is legal, with the following caveats: the article remains behind on The Citizendium (may not simply be deleted), and at its new home, attribution is given to The Citizendium as per our site license. In fact, we find these cases interesting to watch over time, to see how the two parallel articles evolve in their different hosts.

Help top-level from MediaWiki

Help:Contents

How to

make references smaller

<div class="references-small">

include Google searches

• One+Way+Encryption

• Google:One+Way+Encryption
• Google search on "one way encryption"

turn off indexing, TOC

• __NOTOC__
• __NOINDEX__

lower case

pat palmer is from {{lc:Pat Palmer}}

site notice

• Site Notice

magic words - ISBN, PMID, RFC

• ISBN 978-1-59017-374-9
• PMID 11209037
• RFC 5620

Refer to a tab

''(additional links are available on the [[/Timelines|timelines subpage]])''<br>

code snippets

minimal 2-column table

{|
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| BBB
|}

AAA

BBB

creating subpages (quickie manual)

• How to create a subpages article manually
• User_talk:Pat_Palmer/sandbox/How_to_create_a_subpages_article_manually

To create a CZ subpages article called My_Article:

• create My_Article and add {{subpages}} as its first line

1. use CZ:Templates to create Template:My_Article/Metadata and populate it with metadata
2. create Talk:My_Article and add {{subpages}} as its first line

1. optionally, create My_Article/Related_Articles (optional) and add {{subpages}} as its first line
2. optionally, create My_Article/Bibliography (optional) and add {{subpages}} as its first line
3. optionally, create My_Article/External_Links (optional) and add {{subpages}} as its first line

1. optionally, create My_Article/Definition

Image gallery

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  Photo of Eugene Daub, scultor, circa 2005.

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  Life-sized bust of Claude Shannon by Eugene Daub, located in Gaylord, MI.

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  Lewis & Clark bas relief by Eugene Daub in Montana Senate chamber (over Speaker's podium), Helena, MT.}

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  Eugene Daub standing in front of the original cast of "We Proceeded On".

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  Front of 75mm silver commemorative medal for the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial, sculted by Eugene Daub, 2005.

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  Front and back of 75mm silver commemorative medal for the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial, sculted by Eugene Daub, 2005.

Image examples

• {{Image|Walt Whitman.jpg|right|300px|Walt Whitman by photographer George C. Cox. 1887 in New York}}
• {{Image|Big_and_little_dipper.jpg|right|350px|Constellations ''Ursa major'' and ''Ursa minor'' with Polaris, the North Star}}
• [[:Image:Jumbo_Peak_3482.JPG]] - just the link shows up, no image, link goes to image+metadata page
• [[Media:Jumbo_Peak_3482.JPG]] - just the link shows up, no image, link goes straight to the image
• Instant Commons photo link:

[[File:Jumbo_Peak_3482.JPG|thumb|A picture from Dark Peaks which is in Wikimedia Commons is now embedded in this Wiki]]

[[File:Jumbo_Peak_3482.JPG|thumb]]

Widgets

WIDGET
Audio:
YouTube:
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Interwiki

Interwiki links, such as [[Wikipedia:aardvark]], which renders as Wikipedia:aardvark. See Special:Interwiki for all of them.

Magic word tests

• ''{{FULLPAGENAME}}'' (last modified {{CURRENTTIME}}, {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} UTC). {{SITENAME}}, {{int:sitesubtitle}}. Retrieved <citation>{{CURRENTTIME}}, {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}</citation> from {{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid={{REVISIONID}}}}

Pton consolidation text from WP

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Princeton,_New_Jersey&oldid=1131816406

References

• Digital_object_identifier - needs a complete overhaul
• Polymicrogyria - look at the bottom two refs (next to last is a DOI)

This is a bullet list (of external links, maybe):

• https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/105.2.551
• ISBN 0-7382-0042-5
• Antebellum Henry County by Roger Raymond Van Dyke, West Tennessee Historical Society, Papers 1947-2015, Vol 33, 49pp, last access 1/25/2021

This is a test of the "cite book" ref including DOI.

This is a test of the "cite book" ref with no DOI.

This is a test of the VanDyke regular reference inline

This is a sentence.

Table for a nice blue box

In addition to the text below, this article comprises the following material, located on the Timelines and Addendum subpages:- the states of Europe - a table of facts and statistics about the countries of Europe; the languages of Europe - a taxonomy of European languages; and, chronological background - events in the history of Europe which bear upon its present constitution.

Write-a-thon

• Monthly_Write-a-Thon (and re-enable table at top of landing page)

Workgroups

See User:Pat Palmer/sandbox/workgroups

Workgroup header templates

• Template:Workgroup - frame
• Template:WorkgroupNotice - banner
• Template:WG_articles - colored table
• Template:Wk gp tbl - white background table

Special note:

• Template:Workgroup - Discussion page (OLD) and Discussion page (NEW) differ; work on spacing to make smaller?