Wikipedia:Tips

Wikipedia's tips library

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Here you can digest how to use Wikipedia in bite-sized morsels. The tips listed below were created for the Tip of the day project, or the Styletips project, but are listed here by title and organized by subject area for your convenience.

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Pretty tables

When using tables in articles, consider using class="wikitable" at the top of the table, like so: {| class="wikitable". This puts a grey border around all the cells, gives heading cells a grey tint, and uses many other common formatting settings without having to spell them all out.

Here are additional resources suitable for new as well as expert contributors:

Introduction to tables – a four part quick introduction
How to use tables – when and how tables should be used on Wikipedia
Table accessibility – Manual of Style guidelines
Table customising and styles – Styles and tricks to customise tables

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