Joshualouie711

"If we create 1000 pages a month, we will be able to hit 100,000 pages in only 8 years."--Jimbo Wales, 2001

To-do list

1. Wu Sangui: Copyedit
2. Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute: Trim excessive detail, NPOV

Comparison of Encyclopaedia Britannica and Wikipedia

	Encyclopaedia Britannica (print)	Encyclopaedia Britannica (online)	English Wikipedia
First edition	6 December 1768	1994	25 January 2001
Contributors	4,411		29,835,859 (plus IPs)
Articles	~40,000	~120,000	5,316,623
Editions	15		866,007,638
Word count	44,000,000	55,000,000	3,180,000,000
Cost	>$1,000 (used print edition)	$70 per year (subscription) Pop-up advertising (no subscription)	$0
Last updated	2010; subsequently went out of print	Unknown	1.43 seconds ago, on average
Open-source	No	Partially; all edits must be approved	Yes

Tip of the Day

Tip of the day...

Displaying one page within another = Transclusion

Including the contents of a template page on a different page (by surrounding the page name with double braces, i.e. "{{}}" and leaving out the "Template:" prefix) is called transclusion.

This allows the other page to be automatically updated whenever the template page is updated.

Besides templates, pages in the following namespaces can be transcluded:

• Category:
• Help:
• Portal:
• User:
• Wikipedia:

The only difference between transcluding these and templates is that you must include the prefix (followed by a colon) with the page's name inside the double braces.

Images also can be transcluded, but this is done using double square brackets instead of braces.

Here are some examples of transclusion:

{{Pic of the day}} · {{Help:Contents}} · [[Image:Wikipedia-logo.png]]

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