Electowiki:The electowiki handbook

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Electowiki runs on the MediaWiki engine, just like Wikipedia and many other wikis, so for help with basic markup and editing, you can consult existing pages on those topics:

The rest of this page is for help with Electowiki-specific features (or lack thereof).

Automatic citations

Wikipedia has the ability to automatically generate a citation from a unique identifier. We don't have that functionality (yet?), so your options are:

  1. Enter your URL or unique identifier into Citer and it will generate wiki markup for a citation that you can copy and paste into the article.
  2. Open Wikipedia's Sandbox and use their citation generator tool to create a citation, then copy and paste into the article. Copying from VisualEditor to VisualEditor works.
  3. Fill out the citation template manually


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