Shelton1234

Learning to make tables

Thanks to users like Tra and T on the village pump! --Shelton1234 21:54, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. The reference for now (before it moves to an archive page) is: Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Wiki-fy a Schedule Table. After your question moves to the archive, it should still be findable with this Google search. --Teratornis 04:45, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Except that I just discovered, to my dismay, that Werdnabot automatically deletes the the Village pump archives. Therefore, to see your question in the future, one would have to use the page history. --Teratornis 19:11, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

The table editing instructions I promised

Here they are. All standard disclaimers apply. Most of the links will be broken, because they refer to local help pages on my wiki, or they are interwiki links to Wikipedia articles, which of course would need to be plain wikilinks here. You're going to edit this heavily anyway. --Teratornis 04:56, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

How to edit the telephone directory

Before you can edit this page, you must first create an account and log in to Wikipedia. You should also practice a little wiki editing by making your user page. (If your name appears in red in the telephone directory, that means you have not made your user page yet. Blue names correspond to people who have made their user page.) If you need help, contact redacted for assistance.

1. When you are ready to add or update your information on this page, click the edit link at the top of the section you want to edit.

• Clicking on a section edit link causes less wikitext to appear in your edit window (you will see only the wikitext for that section). That should be less confusing than if you click the edit tab at the top of the page (which edits the whole page at once, and will display a lot of wikitext).

The telephone directory information on this page is in a set of tables, and that is probably what you want to edit. Ordinarily you will not edit the top of the table code, which defines the style class and column headings, and looks like this:

{| class="wikitable" !Name !Extension !Direct Dial !Home Phone !Cell Phone !IM Name !IM Service !Work E-mail !Personal E-mail |- Instead you will probably edit a particular row in the table, which gives contact information for one person. A table row with comments identifying the table cells extends over several lines of wikitext, and looks like this: |- <!--Name --> |redacted <!--Extension --> |xxx <!--Direct Dial --> |No DID <!--Home Phone --> |xxx-xxx-xxxx <!--Cell Phone --> |xxx-xxx-xxxx <!--IM Name --> | <!--IM Service --> | <!--Work E-mail --> |mailto:xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <!--Personal E-mail -->|mailto:xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx |--- Each pipe (|) character delimits a cell in the table. Text to the right of the pipe sign appears in the table as the cell's contents. Most rows in the table do not have comments identifying their cells, for example: |---- |redacted |xxx |xxx-xxx-xxxx |xxx-xxx-xxxx |xxx-xxx-xxxx |xxxxxxx |AIM |[[Special:Emailuser/xxxxxx|xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx]] |mailto:xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx and you have to identify the cells by their position.

If you need to edit your home phone number, for example, scroll down to find the table cell with your name. Your name should appear in the form of a user name template such as {{xxxxxx}}, which expands to Template:xxxxxx on the rendered page. To find the cell containing {{xxxxxxx}}'s home phone number, count down four cells from the cell containing {{xxxxxxxx}}'s name (as cell number one). The other table rows have the same number of cells, in the same positions relative to the person's name.

After you edit something in the table, click the Show preview button below the edit window. Your browser will show how the page will look with your edits, above the edit window. You may need to edit and preview several times to get the page to look the way you want. The page will not actually change until you click the Save page button.

When you are happy with your edits, type a summary of your edits in the Summary field, and click the Save page button.

If you mess up the page, contact redacted and we can revert the page to the previous good revision. Any user can do this, but reverting pages is best left to the experienced users.

Note: I used an HTML ordered list rather than the compact wiki ordered list to make the numbered steps, because the wiki ordered list does not work properly with the interwoven <nowiki> tags showing the table code samples. --Teratornis 04:59, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

It's odd that there is no item 2. The item numbering is correct in my original wiki page. Oh well. --Teratornis 05:02, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you vrey much! --Shelton1234 15:27, 12 March 2007 (UTC)