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As an editor, it's always courteous to sign messages on any talk pages when leaving messages. There's a couple of different external help pages that may be helpful to learn more about this topic: |
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* [[mw:Help:Signatures]] - the mediwiki.org "Help" page. |
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* [[wikipedia:Help:Signatures]] - the en.wikipedia.org "Help" page. |
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== Tildes == |
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{{wikipedia|Tilde}} |
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When editing [[wikitext]] on talk pages (i.e. with "Edit source"), the following rules apply for tildes. |
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* Three tildes in a row (i.e. "<code><nowiki>~~~</nowiki></code>") puts the editor's username |
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* Four tildes in a row (i.e. "<code><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></code>") puts the editor's username and a timestamp (whatever the time is on the server when you save your changes) |
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* Five tildes in a row (i.e. "<code><nowiki>~~~~~</nowiki></code>") puts '''only''' the timestamp. |
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See [[mw:Help:Signatures]] for more information about how tildes work with [[wikitext]]. |
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Latest revision as of 08:07, 4 October 2020
- Parent: Help:Contents
As an editor, it's always courteous to sign messages on any talk pages when leaving messages. There's a couple of different external help pages that may be helpful to learn more about this topic:
- mw:Help:Signatures - the mediwiki.org "Help" page.
- wikipedia:Help:Signatures - the en.wikipedia.org "Help" page.
See below for more about how "~~~
" (3 tildes) and "~~~~
" (4 tildes) and "~~~~~
" (5 tildes) are expanded in wikitext
Tildes
When editing wikitext on talk pages (i.e. with "Edit source"), the following rules apply for tildes.
- Three tildes in a row (i.e. "
~~~
") puts the editor's username - Four tildes in a row (i.e. "
~~~~
") puts the editor's username and a timestamp (whatever the time is on the server when you save your changes) - Five tildes in a row (i.e. "
~~~~~
") puts only the timestamp.
See mw:Help:Signatures for more information about how tildes work with wikitext.