Wikitravel talk:Help Travel Guide
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Can somebody who knows basic wiki markup write a brief listing of the basics that we need? I've forgotten how to do half the things I used to know by heart and I keep messing up my formatting when I try to do anything more complicated than bullets :(
Could we please have explanations of the following markup:
- headers and how to make them bigger
- bold/italic etc
- lists
- 'stepped' lists
- numbered lists
- links to other articles
- links with different text to the actual link
- external links
- how to insert an image
- how to 'wrap' the text around the image
KJ 23:10, 6 Aug 2003 (PDT)
- Hi. Evan started doing this at Wikitravel:Wiki markup. You can get there from Wikitravel:Help --> Wikitravel:How to edit a page and it's the first link in the first graph. Maybe we need to move this link up? Hope this helps (I'm a wiki newbie myself, so trying to learn as I go along).
- A good page it is too... but I didn't see it at all because it was linked as 'wiki markup' - I thought it just went to a brief explanation or something. I know WHAT the markup is - I just forget how to use it. lol I'd suggest linking it directly to the help page - I know that's where I looked for it. Call the link 'How to use Wiki Markup in an article' to be totally obvious! KJ
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.... OLD days....
.... Um, can I ask whether this is the old travel shop that I remember from ~ 1970 ? The agency I remember, as a kid, had a Hawaiian Tiki with a fountain in the window.... My father worked for Wardair on the 26th floor of the CN building nearby ... I, with my father, used to (if I have this right...) used to walk past your window often ... the image sticks in my mind ....I was about nine or nen at the time ... um, am I right .... ?
al graham jr.
- Hi! Sorry, we're not the company you're thinking of. I know "Wiki" is a common word in Hawaii, but in our case it refers to the kind of software used to run the site (it was named after the wikiwiki buses from the Honolulu airport)... Hope you have a look around anyway! Majnoona 14:23, 10 Apr 2005 (EDT)
Some updates
I didn't want to mess with the help page directly, but it seems that it could use a bit of cleanup and a brief explanation as to what some of the guidelines are. I've got a proposed update at User:Wrh2/Help if anyone has any comments. The major changes are just removing a dead link, reorganizing some of the sections, and adding a description to most of the links. This also more closely follows the help outline used on Wikimedia, which may be better known to people. -- Wrh2 00:26, 18 May 2005 (EDT)
- I went ahead and updated, but please revert the changes if I've overstepped my bounds. Hopefully the descriptions next to the links are useful, and I think having the article templates more readily available should be useful. -- Wrh2 00:02, 19 May 2005 (EDT)
- I think an overhaul was a long time coming; thanks for getting it started. I've kind of re-organized some thing again; notably the headers. I also have some very particular ideas about lists; I think putting huge lists on a page is less than helpful. When we started Wikitravel, I put "meta" information into 4 main sections:
- Project description (about, goals, faq, etc.)
- Help on the software (how to edit, how to undo, Wiki markup, recent changes, etc.)
- Manual of style; how we format and organize the guides (spelling, bold, article templates, etc.)
- Project policy; how we work together as people (admin policy, deletion policy, etc.)
- Wikitravel:Help was the index for the second kind of page. I think it's still pretty good to keep it focussed on that, and refer to rather than include the other kinds of meta-page indexes. In particular, we also have Wikitravel:utilities, which lists all the meta pages. --Evan 07:25, 19 May 2005 (EDT)
Map coordinates
Exact or even approximate map coordinates should be submitted with each location/article. That way users could find these locations using their GPS, Google Earth or a similar mapping application. It would be best if standard 'tags' were used to identify coordinates in an article: e.g., geobloggers and flikr uses the geotagged key word with the following format for coordinates: "geo:lat=49.000", "geo:lon= -123.000"
- Yes. I want to add Turtle to the system, and let people set Basic Geo (WGS84 lat/long) Vocabulary data, as well as others. Probably something that will be happening in the next couple of months. --Evan 21:27, 15 Aug 2005 (EDT)
Email address displayed
Please help! I'm new and for some reason my email address is displayed in the list of recent contributors at the bottom of one of the pages. I've removed my email address from my account but it is still there at the bottom of that page aaaaarrrrgh! How do I remove it? Thanks.
- Hi, is it Catherine? I guessed from your IP that you were referring to New Zealand. The problem was that the page was cached with your email address set as your real name. I've cleared the cached version for you.
- Meanwhile, welcome to Wikitravel! -- Mark 06:37, 3 Nov 2005 (EST)
Thanks so much! Cheers, Catherine.
getting help
I'm a new user, and I've put some things into the page for Antwerp. I would like to re-use an image that is used for the german page for Antwerp (de:Antwerpen) but I have no clue how to do this. In the german pages I could add it but it would be nice to add it to the english and french page. I further do not dare to copy images/maps from other sites due to copyrights. It would be nice to have a better explanation of it! --Twopeak
- Right now, you have to download it and upload it again. At some point in the future we'll have a Wikitravel commons to share images across the different language versions. --Evan 16:42, 3 Nov 2005 (EST)
Adding a picture from Wikicommons
Ok, what's the code used (if there is one) to link a picture from Wikicommons?
khrystene 1:38 6 jan 2006 CET -5degC
Rugby World Cup 2007
Hi I'm new at I have just started the Rugby World Cup 2007 guide, similar to World Cup 2006. But it needs a lot of help, please make any changes that you think might help it. Thanks
