Help/Help with Macros

Macros are magic things you insert into a page to perform some special function. They look [[LikeThis]].

• [[Anchor(anchorname)]] — defines an anchor. Use [#anchorname Link Text] to jump to said anchor. Note that everything is case senstive and that the anchor is defined with double brackets [[]] but called with single [] brackets.
  

• [[Comments(Leave your comments here)]] — makes a comments box, but with text other than "Comments", like at the bottom of this page.
  

• [[Date]] — current date, e.g. [[Date]] Note: These macros are not really relevant on Davis Wiki. They are useful when you want to write a time relative to different timezones.
  

• [[Date(1)]] — tomorrow's date (I guess), e.g. [[Date(1)]]
  

• [[DateTime]] — current date/time: [[DateTime]]
  

• [[FootNote(This is the footnote text)]] — creates a Footnote ¹
  

• [[FootNote]] — lists the page's footnotes (footnotes appear at the bottom of the page if [[FootNote]] isn't used)
  

• [[heart]] — creates a ♥
  

• [[Image(image_name.jpg, thumbnail, noborder, left/right, "Caption including ["Wiki" links]")]] — see Help with Images
  

• [[Include(pagename)]] — Includes the contents of page pagename into the current page. People have been using the following, as well:
  

• [[LinksHere]] provides a list of pages that link to the current page
  

• [[[LinksHere(pagename)]] provides list of pages that link to an arbitrary wiki page
  

• [[MailTo(somebody AT yahoo DOT com)]] — obscures an email address (sort of) from people who aren't logged in (like those harvesting email addresses for spam), looks like <somebody AT yahoo DOT com> to you. See MoinMoin's page on MailTo.
  

• [[PageCount]] How many pages are in the wiki? 7864; that's how many.
  

• [[paypal]] — "Make a Donation" paypal button
  

• [[RandomPage(n)]] — where n is a number of links to randomly selected wiki pages
  

• [[RandomQuote(pagename)]] — also works for random images. The page that this references should just be a list of whatever you want to randomly select.
  

• [[Stats(Username)]]
  

• [[stop]] — creates a box to link it to a "/Talk" page. Used when there is a big dispute among users on the content of a page.
  

• [[TableOfContents]] creates a table of contents based on the = title = headers on the page. It indents based on the number of equal signs.

• [[BR]] — force a hard return (but trouble when formatting near images and thumbnails)
  

• [[nbsp]] — adds a single blank space.