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Datsun 1200 Encyclopedia FAQ

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Organizing An Article

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Sections and subsections

Wikimedia Sections Help

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Italics, Bold and Paragraph Breaks

Wikimedia Formatting Help

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Ordered Lists, unordered Lists, and Bullet Points

Wikimedia Formatting Help

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Links

TIP: Practice typing links into articles using Edit. But don't "Save" the article, just click "Preview" to see how you are doing. Then you can cancel the Edit.

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How Do I Link To Another Encyclopedia Page?

Like this:

[[Datsun 1200]]

It will work like this link: Datsun 1200

You can also give the link a custom label, like this:

[[Datsun 1200|Custom Label]]

It will work like this link: Custom Label

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How Do I Link to a Web Page?

Like this:

http://datsun1200.com

Or, to be a little fancier:

[http://datsun1200.com click here for datsun1200.com]

... which works like this: click here for datsun1200.com

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How Do I Link to a Wikipedia Article?

Like this:

[[wikipedia:Nissan|Nissan]]

Which results in Nissan.

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How Do I Link to a Picture?

Like this:

http://datsun1200.com/uploads/thumbs/4010.jpg

NOTE: Write it all on one line, or it won't work as expected.

When you preview the page, it will look like this:

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Ref

<pre>wiki link</pre>

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Photos FAQs

How Do I Link to a Picture? (Answer in Link section)

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How to make a click-able photo?

For club Photo Album photos, do it like this:

{{Album|4010}}

Album 4010

Or for the Thumb:

{{Thumb|4010}}

Album click to view

For random internet photos:

[link_to_whatever Address_of_JPG]

For example:
[http://datsun1200.com http://datsun1200.com/images/mainpic.jpg]

Try it: Click the photo!

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How to size a photo to a specific size?

For a Photo Album photo

http://datsun1200.com/uploads/4010.jpg

Photos are automatically maxed at 400 pixels wide:

Limit the width to 400 for this Wiki so that all users get a nice size page, even if using a mobile browser.

Use Thumbs in some case, like this:

http://datsun1200.com/uploads/thumbs/4010.jpg

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Category Pages

A category page is a table-of-contents page.

Generally you won't change these, instead add your information to a regular page or a new page (see how to create a new page below). However if needed you can modify the Category page to add subcategories.

Adding the "category" to a page will cause that page to automatically be listed on the category page.

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Adding a Category to a page

Say you write a page "L-series Engine Swaps". Be sure to add the category to the bottom of the page:

[[Category:Engine Removal And Installation]]

This will list the page on the appropriate category page automatically and also provides a link near the top of the page to the category page. Now they are cross-linked and indexed.

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Where Can I see a list of Categories?

The list of top-level Categories is here: Datsun 1200 encyclopedia.

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New Pages

NOTE: Be sure to use the search button to see if your info already is in the encyclopedia somewhere. It is usually better to add your information to an existing article than to create new page/article.

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How Do I Create a New Page?

In existing articles, you may see a "red link". This is a link to an article that hasn't been created yet. Click it and you will be prompted to create the new page. Type in the info you have, then click Save. You may wish to Preview it first.

To create a brand new page, see instructions here: Create New Page

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Tables

Option 1: Paste an HTML table in. It is displayed as normal.

Option 2: Use a wiki table.

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HTML Tables

Use this option if you are good with HTML or can copy/paste an existing table.

Part Number	@	Ex. Dur	In. Dur	In. Open	In. Close	Ex. Close	Ex. Open	Lift (in)	Reference
13001-H1000	?	248	248	14	54	12	56	0.335	photo

OPTIONAL: Give the table the class "wiki_table" to give it a quick formatted look. Overide the width with [style="width:600px"]. TH can be used to make the first row pop

Part Number	@	Ex. Dur	In. Dur	In. Open	In. Close	Ex. Close	Ex. Open	Lift (in)	Reference
13001-H1000	?	248	248	14	54	12	56	0.335	photo: Album click to view

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Wiki Tables

Engine	Displacement
A12	1171 cc
A14	1397 cc

To create this table, enter this:

{| 
! Engine
! Displacement
|- 
| A12
| 1171 cc
|-
| A14
| 1397 cc
|-
|}

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FAQ

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Contents

Organizing An Article

Sections and subsections

Italics, Bold and Paragraph Breaks

Ordered Lists, unordered Lists, and Bullet Points

Links

How Do I Link To Another Encyclopedia Page?

How Do I Link to a Web Page?

How Do I Link to a Wikipedia Article?

How Do I Link to a Picture?

Ref

Photos FAQs

How to make a click-able photo?

How to size a photo to a specific size?

Category Pages

Adding a Category to a page

Where Can I see a list of Categories?

New Pages

How Do I Create a New Page?

Tables

HTML Tables

Wiki Tables