Help:Add to Glossary: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 16:04, 24 August 2020

Go to the "Glossary acronyms" in the left navigation, then edit page using 'edit source'.

Once there you can add a new line of content in the format:

;ABBR:full text of abbreviation

so it looks like this

or

After that, any time the abbreviation is used on another page, it will automatically be applied with the full description as a hover link.

This will take half an hour or so to actually show up as it seems to search the pages and remember things!

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-Go to the Glossary in the left navigation, then edit page using 'source editing'.
+Go to the "Glossary acronyms" in the left navigation, then edit page using 'edit source'.
 Once there you can add a new line of content in the format:
-''';'''''ABBR''''':'''''Abbreviation Content Here''
+''';'''''ABBR''''':'''''full text of abbreviation''
-[[File:editing a glossary item.jpg|thumb|300x300px]]
+so it looks like this[[File:glossary list.jpg|thumb|500x500px]]
-so it looks like this
 ;GIS:Geographic Information Services
+or
+;GPS:Global Positioning System
+[[Glossary|See the full Glossary here.]]
 After that, any time the abbreviation is used on another page, it will automatically be applied with the full description as a hover link.
@@ Line 12: / Line 15: @@
 This will take half an hour or so to actually show up as it seems to search the pages and remember things!
-[[File:Glossary Hover Effect.png]]
+[[File:glossary view.jpg]]
-<bs:pageaccess groups="sysop,bureaucrat,editor-phil-bendle-editor-news,editor-pages,editor-other" />