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This is the current revision of this page, as edited by Zakolantern (talk | contribs) at 05:31, 29 January 2009. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.

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Sorry for the lousy formatting of the userboxes; I was lazy. In essence, I wrote a short bio, then found userboxes, and decided to just use those to say everything. This might get cleaned up eventually, but not promises. I know the Userboxtop formatting exists, I am just not currently using it.


How to link to word definitions

Wikipedia has a sister project that presents hundreds of thousands of word definitions. It's called Wiktionary. Let's say you are writing a sentence and you want to create a link to the definition of a word, the understanding of which is crucial to understanding that article. But in this hypothetical situation, you don't want to link to the Wikipedia page for that word because doing so would be overkill. So, using our Source Editor, here's how you would provide a link to the definition of "understanding" on Wiktionary:

both [[wiktionary:understanding|]] and [[wikt:understanding|]] will display like this:

understanding

and will link to the definition of the word "understanding".

Notice that the "pipe trick" (|) was used in the links above.

To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}
This user lives in San Francisco.
This user lives in or hails
from Oakland.
This user lives in or hails from Providence.
BThis user attends or attended
Brown University.
This user's favourite subject is
Politics
This user's favorite subject is computing.
OAKThis user is a fan of the
Oakland Athletics
This user has visited one or more of the United States' National Parks.
This user enjoys reading anything.
This user enjoys reading the newspaper.
NewspaperThis user reads The New York Times.
NewspaperThis user reads San Francisco Chronicle.
This user enjoys reading magazines.
This user enjoys reading fiction.
This user enjoys reading science fiction.
This user enjoys the works of
Isaac Asimov.
1.618... This user is under the influence of Philip K. Dick.
This user enjoys reading humorous literature.
Law & OrderThis user is a fan of Law & Order.L&O
This user is not a number, he is a free man.
trekThis user is mildly embarrassed to have a Star Trek userbox, but really, who are they kidding?
FGThis user thinks Family Guy is freakin' sweet.
Good news, everyone! This user is a fan of Futurama!
d'oh!This user thinks The Simpsons is simply... excellent.
TCRThis user knows the population of elephants has tripled in the past six months.
1, 2, 3...This userbox is a test. Please tell this user if you don't see it.
This user overuses userboxes.