Help:How to make a Tool page
This wiki offers a couple of templates that help maintain a consistent style, categorization and automatic linking through semantic information. If you want a new page to be a Tool page, the minimum information you need to add is the categorization as a tool. All other templates are optional, though we strongly encourage using them to improve findability.
Using the visual editor to add tool templates to a page
Depending on how you ended up on the page creation form the default should already be the default. Otherwise, the visual editor can be found under the "Create" tab on the top right/middle of the page. A step-by-step guide of how to add all the right templates and information can be seen in the galleries below.
Adding the category
Adding the infobox
Now you can add a list of related topic pages, separated by commas. As of now, there is no autocomplete option for that. If you are not sure about the title of the pages you want to link to, you can verify it on the Topic category overview page.
Adding the Tool Queries
Type "Tool Queries" into the search bar. The template should appear in the autocomplete list. Choose the template and click "Insert". Do not add anything under "add more information". The queries will be automatically filled when another page refers to your page in their infobox. The Tool Queries template should now appear on the bottom of your page.
Adding further content
All other content can now be added and formatted as you wish. See the Cheatsheet from MediaWiki for formatting help.
Using the source code editor to add tool templates to a page
- Adding the tool category:
[[Category:Tools]]
- We recommend adding this at the bottom of the page,
- This makes the page show up on the Tools overview page
- Adding the infobox:
{{Tool Infobox|Related topics= }}
- You can enter a list of related topic pages after "Related topics=", separated by commas.
- We recommend putting this at the top of your page article
- Adding the footer queries:
{{Tool Queries}}
- We recommend adding this at the bottom of the page
Elements of a Tool page
How to turn a page a tool page if it already in a different category?
You can change the categorization of a page by removing any existing infobox/footer templates and category tags from a page and instead replace with (at least) the tool tag as specified above. This will put the page in the tool category and remove it from the other categories.