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Creating an article

Search for the article and if there is not a good match there will be a red link which leads to the article creation page.

Naming References

To reference the same article multiple times, on the first use wrap it in a ref tag with a name attribute, on subsequent usages you can reference it by that name in another ref tag. For example:

Things happened<ref name="smith2000things">CITATION</ref>. Some of the things were good<ref name="smith2000things" />.

where the CITATION is the full citation curly brace business.

Citation Gadget

There is a Citation expander gadget which greatly simplifies the process of adding citations to articles. It is enabled though Preferences then Gadgets. Once it has been enabled, to add a citation of a journal article, you just need to add <ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1000/ABC123}}</ref> and then click the Citations button. There are other stubs that can be used:

{{cite journal |doi=10.1000/ABC123}}
{{cite book |isbn=978-1-23-456789-0}}
{{cite web |url=https://example.com}} (questionable)

Note: bear in mind when using the citation gadget that

it takes a while to do its magic, but it will do magic so be patient,
and you still need to wrap the citation in a <ref></ref> for this to format the citation correctly.

Infobox

Here is the infobox for the Vega and Vega-Lite visualisation grammars page.

{{short description|Graphics software tools}}
{{Infobox software
| name = Vega and Vega-Lite
| title =
| logo = {{multiple images|direction=vertical|image1=Vega Logo.svg|image2=Vega-Lite Logo.svg|align=center}}
| logo caption = Vega (top), Vega-Lite (bottom)
| logo_size = 100px
| logo_alt =
| screenshot =
| caption =
| screenshot_size =
| screenshot_alt =
| collapsible =
| author =
| developer = [[Jeffrey Heer]], Arvind Satyanarayan, Dominik Moritz, Kanit Wongsuphasawat, and community
| released = {{Start date and age|2013|04|02|df=yes}}
| discontinued =
| latest release version = 5.25.0
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2023|04|27|df=yes}}<ref>{{cite web|title=vega Releases|url=https://github.com/vega/vega/releases|website=Github.com}}</ref>
| latest preview version =
| latest preview date = <!-- {{Start date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|df=yes/no}} -->
| programming language = [[JavaScript]]
| operating system =
| platform =
| size =
| language =
| language count = <!-- DO NOT include this parameter unless you know what it does -->
| language footnote =
| genre = [[Data visualization]], [[JavaScript library]]
| license = [[BSD License|BSD]]
| alexa =
| website = {{URL|vega.github.io}}
| standard =
| AsOf =
}}

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Appearance

There is a Syntax highlighter gadget which makes editing articles much easier.
There is a style guide page for presenting algorithms with pseudocode.

Wikidata

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Aezarebski

Table 1: Aezarebski edit counts to main.
Year	Edits
2020	13
2021	27
2022	21
2023	16
2024	26