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This is a copy of my sandbox on another (private) wiki. I will edit it to fit Wikipedia as I can.

Carissa's Handy Guide to Wiki, Grammar, and More

Introduction

Hello!
I am Carissa.

This is my sandbox:

• Not your sandbox
• Not his sandbox
• Not her sandbox
• Not their sandbox
• And, certainly, not Cthulhu's sandbox

Carissa's Grammar Pro Tips

Apostrophes

Everyone knows the apostrophe. Most people use the apostrophe. Many people use it incorrectly. Here are some basic rules when it comes to our old friend, the apostrophe:

1. The apostrophe is used to indicate the possessive tense:
   • This is Carissa's Sandbox.
   1. When indicating plural possessive, the apostrophe can be placed at the end of a plural word ending with s:
      • The Smiths' house is red and white.
      • My friends' cars are all better than mine.
2. The apostrophe is used to indicate an omission, especially in a conjunction.
   • Don't forget to brush your teeth!
   • We're going to Peking Palace for Sushi Friday.
3. The apostrophe is not an indicator of plural tense, even if the word is an acronym:
   • PDUs not PDU's
   • ISOs not ISO's
   • monkeys not monkey's
   • babies not baby's
4. The apostrophe is not an indicator of present tense:
   • runs not run's
   • eats not eat's

Commas

Let's talk about commas. Commas can be tricky. Some people use them too much, which is known as a comma splice, and some don't use them at all. While one could probably write a book on commas, here are some quick tips on the ever-confusing comma:

1. Commas are used to separate items in a list of three or more. There is some debate as to weather a comma is neseccary before the conjunction, this is known as the Oxford Comma, but either way is acceptable.
   • Carol, Carissa, Holly and Ashley all sit in the same row.

   or

   • Carol, Carissa, Holly, and Ashley all sit in the same row. (Oxford Comma)
2. Commas are used to separate two separate clauses in a compound or complex sentence.
   • I love sushi, but I sometimes get Chinese when we go to Peking Palace. (Compound Sentence)
   • When most of us show, we have at least eight for lunch. (Complex Sentence)
3. Commas are used to separate parenthetical phrases.
   • Dredge, one of my favorite bands, is not very well-known.
4. Commas are used to specify a subject.

Homonyms

A homonym is a word which is phonetically similar or identical to another. These words are often mistakenly interchanged.

Accept, Except:

accept

(v.) to receive

except

(usually prep.) excluding

(also v.) to exclude

I will accept all the documents except that one.

Please except that document from the list.

Affect, Effect:

affect

(usually v.) to influence

effect

(usually n.) result

(also v.) to bring about

The change did not affect the network, and it is still inoperable.

Only the CIO can effect such a dramatic change.

Allusion, Illusion:

allusion

(n.) an indirect reference

illusion

(n.) a misconception or false impression

Did you catch my allusion to Shakespeare? Mirrors give the room an illusion of depth.

Capital, Capitol:

capital

(n) The most important city or town of a country or region, usually its seat of government

(n.) wealth or resources

(n.) human resources considered in terms of their contributions to an economy

(adj.) first and foremost

(adj.) of or relating to financial assets

capitol

(n.) a building where lawmakers meet

The capitol has undergone extensive renovations.

The capital budget is adequate for the company's employees.

Principle, Principal:

principal

(n.) the head of a school, an organization, or a sum of money.

principle

(n.) meaning a basic truth or law

The principal taught us many important life principles.

Than, Then:

than

(conj.) used, as after comparative adjectives and adverbs, to introduce the second member of an unequal comparison

then

(adv.) denoting subsequent items

Carol is taller than Carissa.

Shifflet showed up, and then the silence was but a fond memory.

There, Their, They're:

there

(adv.) specifying location

(also) an expletive

their

possessive pronoun referring to two or more individuals or a group

they're

contraction of they are

I put the documentsthere when I'm finished.

There are too many directories in SharePoint.

The team sent in their deliverables.

They're waiting for a responce.

To, Too, Two:

to

(prep.) used for expressing motion or direction toward a point, person, place, or thing approached and reached

used for expressing limit of movement or extension

used for expressing contact or contiguity

used for expressing a point of limit in time

too

(adv.) also, as well

two

(n.) the written expression of the number 2

(adj.) amounting to, of, or relating to the number 2

Too many engineers couldn't go to the meeting, so only two were there.

Your, You're:

your

(pron.) possessive form of you

you're

contraction of you are

You're going to break your computer if you continue to use the CD tray as a cup holder.

Stay tuned for more Grammar Pro Tips!

Wiki Stuff

Arrows

Remove the spaces in the second column to output the first.

Categories

Apply categories to your page as appropriate.

[[:Category:Desired Category]]

Files

Insert pictures or other files with the [[File:filename]] or [[Image:imagename]] tag after uploading your file.

Images

You can do the following after the image name, before the closing brackets:

• resize your image with |numberpx or |percentage.
  • Note: Through arduous testing, I have discovered images over 670px in width will not print correctly!
• give your image a frame with |frame.
  • Note: Framed images take up more space!
• align your image with |right, left, or center.
• align your image in a table (helpful in Firefox) by building a table:
  {|align=right,left, or center
  |-

|[[Image:yourimage]]
|}

• give your image a mouseover (or caption when using a frame) with |your text here.
  • for a mouseover with a frame, use |alt=your text here
• make your image a thumbnail which links to the original with |thumb

Example:

Note: Tags do not have to be in any specific order, but aligned images may interfere with text if not in a table. Images with no alignment tag usually position to the left, unless other text or images interfere. I have found with the wiki technical documents, placing the |frame and |none qualifiers tends to eliminate text wrapping issues as the images are large enough when outside of a table for the default position and tags to enforce the formatting.

Tomatoes in my dad's garden. (This text was inputed AFTER the images, but was not placed after the images due to image alignment.)

Images in tables also tend to position a lot easier.

Fonts

Bold

'''Bold'''

Italicized

''Italicized''

Strikethrough

<s>Strikethrough</s>

Underlined

<u>Underlined</u>

Bold, Italicized, Strikethrough and Underlined

'''''<s><u>Bold, Italicized, Strikethrough and Underlined</u></s>'''''

Colored

<font color=desired color/color code>Your Text Here</font>

Size=3

<font size=desired size numeral>Your Text Here</font>

Times New Roman

<font face=desired font>Your Text Here</font>

All of the above

<font color=desired color size=desired size numeral face="desired font">'''''<u>Your Text Here</u>'''''</font>

Headings

=Heading Level 1=

==Heading Level 2==

===Heading Level 3===

====Heading Level 4====

=====Heading Level 5=====

======Heading Level 6======

Headings are created by insering = on either side of the heading text. The number of =s correspond to the heading level. Generally, you should start with level 2 within your document, as level 1 is your title's heading level. You can use up to level 6. Headings are adventageous because you can edit the text included in them. Selecting a higher level header will allow edits of the sub-headers as well.

Links

External Links

Link by placing square brackets [] around the address to produce a numbered link [1].

By placing a space after the address, you can designate the link text.

You can also add mailer links Carissa with [mailto:email address]. As with the other external links, without link text, this will generate a numbered link.

Internal Links

Link to another page on the wiki by placing double square brackets arount the page's name [[Page Name]] User:TigerisLagoona.

If the linked page does not exist, the link will be red, and will take you to a page to created the missing article.

By placing a pipe | after the page name, you can designate the link text.

You can link to other headings in the same document with a # after the opening brackets [[#''Heading'']] #Headings. You can still alter the outputted text with a pipe.

You can even get fancy and link to headings in another page Technical_writer#Skill_set. Just type [[PageName#Heading]]. The same naming rules still apply.

You can also link to an entire category Category:Help [[:Category:CategoryName]]

Lists

Bulleted Lists:

• Look like this
  • Have levels
    • Which can continue
    1. Levels can be bulleted or numbered

• Can be indented

• Are great for making multiple points

Bullet with *

Number with #

Indent with :

The number of *s indicate the bullet level.

Combine as needed.

Note: There is little difference between the second level and the first indentation.

Definition Lists:

Definition Lists

Look like this

Do not have any numbers or bullets by default

• but can if you insert them

1. as shown

Are used to define

Can have multiple definitions

and levels

The item to be defined uses ;.

The definition uses :.

Bullet with :*.

Number with :#.

The number of :s indicate the definition level.

Combine as needed...

Numbered Lists:

1. Look like this
   1. Have levels
      1. Which can continue
      • Levels can be numbered or bulleted

   1. Can be indented

   Can have unnumbered items

2. Are great for instructions

Indent with :

Number with #

Include, but don't number with #:

Bullet with *

The number of #s indicates the numbering level.

Combine as needed...

Numbering Preformatted Text

Nowiki

Use <nowiki>your text here</nowiki> to omit your text from wikitext formatting.

Example: '''This is how you make words bold'''

Note: nowiki does not work on HTML.

Preformatted Text

To make preformatted text,
Simply add a space
Before each line.
←
Groovy

See also: Numbering Preformatted Text

Tables

Table Opener: {|class="wikitable" border="1"

Table Header: !

Table Column: |

Table Row: |-

Table Closer: |}

See Also: Images

Our standard table layout is as follows:

{|class="wikitable" border="1" width="100%"

!Description

!Item

|-

|This wasp, commonly known as the Long-Tailed Wasp, has a long egg tube which she bores into a tree to lay her eggs.

|[[File:Long-Tailed Wasp.jpg|600px]]

|}

• Headers are used when needed.
• 600px is the max width for pictures inside of tables.

Transclusions

The "Chunking" method makes life easier by being able to include other pages as part of your wikified document.

This is My User Page.

  Tigeris Mystrea Lagoona is a nickname adopted, at the age of ten, when Carissa first got the internet. It was 1996, and the internet was young. 
The preferred conduit, at the time, was AOL. My how things have changed.

FOR THE RECORD...

Faygo Shower

A Juggalo spraying any person with Faygo in any manner.

This is the end of My Table Sandbox.

To include other pages, simply put that page name in braces, as such: {{:PageToBeTranscluded}}.

You can specify certain parts of the transcluded page to show only on the page itself, and not when transcluded with <noinclude>Text to be omitted</noinclude>.

Adversely, you can specify certain parts to only show when transcluded with <includeonly>Text to show only on the page which is transcluding this chunk</includeonly>.

Here's the kicker. If you only want a portion of your chunk to be transcluded, wrap that chunk in <onlyinclude>The only text to be transcluded</onlyinclude>.

Comments? Questions? Silliness?

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