Those three pretty boxes on the right were copied from User:Jimbo Wales

 Shift+Alt+P to Preview Changes; Shift+Alt+S to Save Changes

By default, I get no TOC even tho there are more than 3 sections.

I got a TOC by adding the magic word __TOC__ (2 underscores before and after TOC).

Did not need __FORCETOC__.

https://www.mediawiki.org/key/Manual:Table_of_contents

@Mwr0: If it's only for your own use then it's not done with a template but with a setting in the preferences for your account. See Help:Section#Editing before the first section. If you want others to get such a link on a specific page without changing their preferences then I didn't know we had such a template but I did a search on "template:edit lead" and found Template:Edit section on page four of the search results. If you don't know the top section is called the lead then it may be harder to find the template. It shouldn't be used on articles. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:31, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

But using {{Edit section}} as the first thing on the page doesn't put the [Edit] in the right place.

Answer: (Top)Preferences → Gadgets → Appearance → Add an [edit] link for the lead section of a page

• Special:RecentChanges
• Special:Contributions/XX
• Special:Contributions/newbies

• Special:Statistics
• Help:Pageview_stats
• http://stats.grok.se/
• http://stats.grok.se/en/201211/User:Mwr0/SortableTurnout
• http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Talk:Antisemitic_Canard

Magenta <HR> follows (made with a <div style=...></div>); thickness is given N pixels:
<div style="border-style:solid;border-color:magenta;border-width: 2px 0px 0px 0px;"></div>

((Can border a DIV, a {{Hidden}}'s header and/or content))

All 3 ways of striking text work: striking <space>test<space> within outer text

• <S> — outer test text
• <STRIKE> — outer test text
• strike template — outer test text

…MWR note… formatting hints by example (ellipses (&hellip;))
...MWR note... formatting hints by example (three periods)
(there is no vertical ellipse)
Use {‍&zwj;{ ("zero-width joiner") for two of { in a row (or bracket with <nowiki>...</nowiki>)
Use }‍&zwj;}‍ for two of } in a row (or bracket with <nowiki>...</nowiki>)
Or USE the double-parens templates! {{((}} and {{))}}

The following are named HTML character entities of the form &name;

frasl,pi: 3⁄π Pi Π piv ϖ oline ‾ real ℜ image ℑ trade ™ copy © macr(macron) ¯ para ¶
crarr ↵ lArr ⇐ uArr ⇑ rArr ⇒ dArr ⇓ hArr ⇔ ?how to combine? circ aˆ tilde a˜
lsquo rsquo ‘X’ left/right single quotes
ldquo rdquo “X” left/right double quotes
sbquo bdquo ‚X„ "single/double low-9 quotation marks"
lsaquo rsaquo ‹X› "left/right single angle quotation marks"
lang ⟨ and rang ⟩ are "bra" and "ket".
⇒⇒⇒lt < and gt > are "bra" and "ket"?
dagger † Dagger ‡ permil ‰

The following are numeric HTML character entities of the form &#ddd; (decimal) or &#xxxxx; (hex)

cat(🐈)=x1F408 🐈 (bold doesn't embolden; big, large work) ~ paragraph(¶=Alt+0182) 182=¶ 0182=¶ hex 00B6=¶
2nd,3rd,4th roots x221A=√ x221B=∛ x221C=∜
Modifier characters ... aˆcˉ
Combining characters x0300..x036F:
à(grave accent) ê(circumflex) Q̄(modifier letter macron) Q̅(overline) n̷ (short solidus) x̿(double overline) q͏z(grapheme joiner)(??)
x0363..x036F combiners (a e i o u c d h m r t v x) Aͯ cͣ Bͩ

WikiTable, collapsed, collapsible: 1st column header will have [Show] or [Hide] added to it.
Vertical spacing here ...

Without style=margin:, about 32px above top and 18px below bottom.

With 1px and 1px specified is more like 19px and 4px.

First line of text following the table.

Color in header shows up in the header itself but not in the table of contents.
{{hidden}} follows. Note that |expanded=false is the same thing as |expanded=true (it's non-null)

outside of Hidden

text on an HR line (4 dashes) goes to next line. {color} does not affect the HR

backgroundcolor does not affect the HR

How to include link to help section:

Small Caps Here | with pipe character  Done Hmph.  Not done Whoo. Template:Done
? B Thank you

Parens and up to three curly (squirrely) brackets Template:!(

All pages with titles containing mwr via {intitle|mwr}.

All pages with titles beginning with mwr via {lookfrom|mwr}.

All pages with titles beginning with user:mwr via {lookfrom|user:mwr}.

Columns with {col-begin}, {col-break}, {col-end} (indented with empty column) —

Below this text is a Hidden, using content={{template-name}}.
(Attempt to add subst: in those squirrels failed.)
Headers IN THAT TEMPLATE yield edit links to EDIT THE TEMPLATE!!
Since Hidden, Contents shows that header, but clicking it does not take you to that header
until after you use [show] to expand the Hidden.

Under 6 dashes ; next is 5 dashes

All pages with titles beginning with Template:tra

That was 4

That was 6

—These all now work —
larger-larger DEMO ("10% larger") •
big-big DEMO ("15% larger") •
large-large DEMO ('simply large') •
huge-huge DEMO (has unexplained sizing params) •
smaller-smaller DEMO ("15% smaller") •
resize-resize 0.8em DEMO
resize-resize 50% DEMO

A little definition list...

State

Queensland

Postcode

Cairns 4870

Townsville 4810

{search|confabulation} yields (

)

• wp=Wikipedia
• gwp=GoogleWikipedia
• g=Google
• bwp=BingWikipedia
• b=bing
• eb=EcyclopediaBritannica
• 1911=EB1911
• co=BartlebyLexis
• gct=GoogleComputerTerm@PCWorld
• sw=ScienceWorld@Wolfram

This one doesn't treat template: as a Cirrus search keyword {search|template:source} (

)

This one does {search link|template:source} template:source

• Wikipedia#Policies_and_laws
• Wikipedia:List_of_policies_and_guidelines
• mw:Help:CirrusSearch
• Wikilink Help:Searching Help:Searching and {main|Help:Searching}
  Main page: Help:Searching
• Special:Search

• Category:Search templates
• Category:Wikipedia templates (heirarchical listing)
• Category:Wikipedia help templates

{find sources multi/all|Christen Gerhart}
Google · Google Books · Google Scholar · JSTOR · Free Google Images · Archive.org · Bing · Google News recent · New York Times · Wikipedia Reference Search · DuckDuckGo · VGRS · Google Newspapers

Template:look from  • Template:lookfrom (same) • Template:in title  • Template:intitle (same)

test of template link template {{tl|tl}} — {{tl}} — can generate links!

{Special:Prefixindex/Template:x} actually lists first ?741? starting Template:x —

{lookfrom|Template:} produces link to search pages listing all starting with Template: — All pages with titles beginning with Template:

{intitle|Template dead} produces link to search Wikipedia pages with 'Template' in title and 'dead' in title or body, but does not find Template:deadlink (bug?!) —All pages with titles containing Template dead —All pages with titles containing Template,dead —All pages with titles containing Template:dead

{{intitle}} example of {{intitle|Wales Welsh}} FAILS — All pages with titles containing Wales Welsh

• Is a search for intitle:Wales Welsh
• instead of intitle:Wales intitle:Welsh (which has zero matches)
• works if {{intitle|Wales,Welsh}} — >>> All pages with titles containing Wales,Welsh

A better intitle example would be {{intitle|Welsh rugby}} which of course FAILS

• Is a search for intitle:Welsh rugby same as search for rugby intitle:Welsh
• Should be a search for intitle:Welsh intitle:rugby
• Trying {{intitle|Welsh intitle:rugby}} produces — All pages with titles containing Welsh intitle:rugby
• Don't ask me what the {{intitle}} 'OR' example does — All pages with titles containing Welsh OR rugby
• Or if this searches for both words in the title — All pages with titles containing Welsh AND rugby
• works if {{intitle|Welsh,rugby}} — >>> All pages with titles containing Welsh,rugby

Trying {intitle|Template AND intitle:source} now All pages with titles containing Template AND intitle:source

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<ref>{{cite web
 |url= 
 |title= 
 |author= 
 |date= 
 |website= 
 |publisher= 
 |access-date= 
}}</ref>

<ref>{{cite journal
 |last1= 
 |first1= 
 |last2= 
 |first2= 
 |date= 
 |title= 
 |journal= 
 |volume= 
 |issue= 
 |pages= 
 |publisher= 
 |doi= 
 |url= 
 |access-date= 
}}</ref>

<ref>{{cite book
 |last= 
 |first= 
 |author-link= 
 |title= 
 |publisher= 
 |series= 
 |date=  
 |doi= 
 |isbn= 
}}</ref>

<ref>{{cite book
 |last1        = 
 |first1       = 
 |last2        = 
 |first2       = 
 |author-link1 = 
 |author-link2 = 
 |editor       = 
 |title        = 
 |trans-title  = 
 |url          = 
 |access-date  = 
 |edition      = 
 |series       = 
 |volume       = 
 |date         = 
 |publisher    = 
 |location     = 
 |isbn         = 
 |doi          = 
 |page         = 
 |pages        = 
 |chapter      = 
}}</ref>

{{convert|original_value|original_unit|conversion_unit|abbr=on}}

{{convert|orig_val1|range|orig_val2|original_unit|conversion_unit|abbr=on}}

{{convert|60|and|170|kg|lb|abbr=on}}
{{convert|18|°C|°F}}
{{convert|3.21|kg|lb}}

<ref name="NAMEOFREF" />

{{blockquote |text= |sign= }}

<blockquote>
<p>QUOTED PARAGRAPH</p>
<p>NAME, SOURCE, REFERENCE</p>
</blockquote>

{{About|USE1}}

{{About|USE1||PAGE2}}

{{About|USE1|USE2|PAGE2}}

{{About|USE1|USE2|PAGE2|USE3|PAGE3|USE4|PAGE4|USE5|PAGE5}}

{|
|-
! scope="col" |COLUMN1
! scope="col" |COLUMN2
|-
|ROW1
|ROW1/COL2
|-
|ROW2
|ROW2/COL2
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! scope="col" |COLUMN1
! scope="col" |COLUMN2
|-
|ROW1
|ROW1/COL2
|-
|ROW2
|ROW2/COL2
|}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;margin:0px;"
|- 
! style="width:20em;" |COLUMN1
! style="width:20em;" |COLUMN2
|- 
|ROW1
|ROW1/COL2
|-
|ROW2
|ROW2/COL2
|-
|}

{{col-begin|width=100%}}
{{col-break|width=}} 
{{col-end}}

 * {{subst:uw-vandalism1|PageName}} ~~~~ (unintentional vandalism/test)
 * {{subst:uw-delete1|PageName}} ~~~~ (unintentional removal of content)
 * {{subst:uw-vandalism2|PageName}} ~~~~ (suitable for intentional nonsense or disruption)
 * {{subst:uw-delete2|PageName}} ~~~~ (variant for removal of content)
 * {{subst:uw-vandalism3|PageName}} ~~~~ ("please stop" for use after level 2 warning)
 * {{subst:uw-delete3|PageName}} ~~~~ (please stop removing content)
 * {{subst:uw-vandalism4|PageName}} ~~~~ (last warning for vandalism)
 * {{subst:uw-delete4|PageName}} ~~~~ (last warning for removing content)
 * {{subst:uw-vandalism4im|PageName}} ~~~~ (only warning; for severe or grotesque vandalism only)
 * {{subst:uw-delete4im|PageName}} ~~~~ (only warning; for many blankings in a short period of time)

{{rp|page=}}

This is {Quote}

Cry "Havoc" and let slip the dogs of war.

— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, act III, scene I

And <blockquote>

Cry "Havoc" and let slip the dogs of war.

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, act III, scene I

But look at → Category:Quotation_templates!!!
Especially {Rquote}!

Nothing can make the next section lines up OK.

[ Next line shows using {!xt} vs. {xt} vs. {bxt} ]
{Special:Prefixindex/whatever} vs. {look from|whatever} vs. {in title|whatever}

The up-to-date listing below is from {{Special:Prefixindex/User:mwr0/}}
(Default is 3-across alphabetization... took a stab, columns(equals)1 works!)
(Which means that it alphabetizes DOWN the columns.)

[ Expand Section does not check that the date you give it is valid. ]

This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (March 25, 2015)

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