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Wikipedia has '''related sites''' for non-encyclopedic content. | |||
==Related sites== | |||
Battlestar Wiki is for prose articles about subjects considered [[encyclopedia|encyclopedic]] (along with some topics that would typically be found in an [[almanac]]), as well as content that could be considered [http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html Lurker's Guide-like] or words that you could find in a [[Wikipedia:dictionary|dictionary]]. | |||
Any article that simply defines a word, or short phrase, as you would find in a typical [[dictionary]], and that isn't considered a ''Battlestar'' unique word or phrase (such as [[Red Line]], [[volton (TOS)]], or [[frak]]) and cannot be expanded into an encyclopedic entry, should be contributed to [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia]]'s sister project, [[Wiktionary:Main page|Wiktionary]]. | |||
Original source text, such as from a [[Wikipedia:public domain|public domain]] book that you want to post to make it more accessible, should be contributed to one of Wikipedia's other sister projects, [[Wikisource:Main page|Wikisource]]. | |||
For a list of all related projects, see the [[Meta:Complete list of Wikimedia projects|Complete list of Wikimedia projects]]. | |||
===Linking to the related sites=== | |||
Say you have an uncommon word in an article that you write, that you think people might not understand -- and it is not ''Battlestar'' specific. So you're tempted to try and link to it on [[Battlestar Wiki]], but there isn't enough to say about that word to make a real encyclopedia entry. | |||
Link to its Wiktionary entry. (If Wiktionary doesn't have it yet, do everyone a favor and add it, even if it's just a brief definition. Other Wiktionarians will help flesh it out.) | |||
Instead of the whole URL, you can use a wiki link similar to a regular Wikipedia link but with a special prefix. For example, | |||
:<tt><nowiki>[[ | :<tt><nowiki>[[wiktionary:house]]</nowiki></tt> | ||
will link to the Wiktionary definition of the word "house". In your article it will appear as: | |||
: | :[[wiktionary:house]] | ||
you can hide the "wiktionary:" part by adding a "pipe" (vertical bar) character: | |||
:<tt><nowiki>[[wiktionary:house|]]</nowiki></tt> | |||
as explained on the [[Wikipedia:Tutorial (Wikipedia links)|previous page]], so that the result is: | |||
:[[wiktionary:house|house]] | |||
The other projects have similar shortcuts. For more examples, see [[Wikipedia:How to link to Wikimedia projects|How to link to Wikimedia projects]]. | |||
==Experiment== | |||
Try it! Here's the [[/sandbox/]] for this page. | |||
[[Battlestar Wiki:Tutorial (External links)|Continue]] with the tutorial. | |||
[[ | [[Category:Wikipedia tutorial|*4]] | ||