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Species Pages
Temnothorax

Stenamma

Fulva-rudis-texana_complex

NE_US_Myrmica

Testing/Drafts/Examples
Link to mczbase records; see text under type material heading of Acropyga_parvidens

Lat/long details
 * Help:Geolocation
 * example on page

Table of contents (TOC)


 * do not display:
 * float to right, two ways, one sometimes looks better than the other in how it renders the page:
 * see:

whitespace edited text takes any amount of whitespace between two characters on the same line and renders it as a single space; the following edit text (with the space removed between the & and n) adds additional space (oddly, this edit text will not display on the rendered page when wrapped in nowiki tags)

& nbsp;

copyright symbol the following (with no space between the & and c) displays &copy;

& copy;

specifications for other symbols and special characters: mediawiki symbol formating

forces a new line, all the edit text under 'clear' is shown below whatever is above it; this for example prevents a displayed image from having any text or headings display to its side

table in identification section
 * Dicroaspis
 * Anomalomyrma helenae
 * Social_Parasitism
 * table generator

Images
Link to more images: Additional montage images for this species can be found here
 * Cardiocondyla emeryi
 * Solenopsis_geminata

images of pdfs for text from older publications, can be displayed using formatting similar to that used for key images:
 * stacked images of textAncyridris rupicapra  and     Belonopelta attenuata
 * 3 pages (images) side by side: Propodilobus_pingorum and []

larger caste images in gallery with forced new line for next entry on page. Two formats:
 * Monomorium subapterum
 * Camponotus auriventris (Vladimir Zryanin image)

Clear right for a thumb image float ''Lepisiota_capensis

Wild Images upload and display formatting:
 * Trachymyrmex_arizonensis
 * File:Wild T. arizonensis and S. arizonica.jpg

two ways of presenting MCZ ent uploaded images, also see above about linking to MCZbase specimens:
 * File:Linepithema_keiteli_MCZ-ENT00521567_d.jpg
 * []

removing the pipe from the beginning of the 2nd image details, as shown below, forces the second image to appear to the right side of the 1st image; the ending |} serves as a line break with anything after it placed below the images;

Video
Extension:EmbedVideo

video player documention -

vimeo example - Leptogenys falcigera

you tube information/examples


 * Phorid Flies
 * with parameters to control size and position of frame Lasius niger
 * centered - Pheidole_megacephala added |frame|center to get this to work

Species Groups
Tetramorium examples - a diverse group with many species groups if there are keys, links are provided to and from group pages
 * Tetramorium species groups - one page to unite them all
 * Afrotropical Tetramorium species groups - a regional summary page
 * Tetramorium bicarinatum species group - a group summary, this group is in 3 regions
 * Tetramorium flabellum species group - a group summary for a group in one region
 * Key to Afrotropical Tetramorium species groups - a key to species groups for the groups in a region
 * Key to Afrotropical Tetramorium aculeatum species group - a worker group-key, this is from a single region
 * Key to Strumigenys nitens group - a worker group-key, for the entire group (region is irrelevant)

group species pages have the following categories

Templates
specific names, examples of their use

data templates, can search using template terms to find examples of their use on a page; template term is |mean_colony_size_source= ; search for  mean colony size


 * Life History Traits
 * Carebara overbecki colony size example
 * Flight Month
 * Strongylognathus italicus example

Columns
we use a template to making columns: Template:Div col the documentation:this page

The template creates wiki specific markup, as detailed in the documention. There does not have everything I would want for formatting options. There are other column generating templates available. The column template we use is CSS based, and makes good compromises to allow for auto-scalable (by browser and device) rendering of the information. More complex columns are table based and tables can easily break things. For example, they may render wrong or entirely break a page across different browsers and devices. Tables that fail in their standards-compliance will likely also fail in terms of meeting accessibility standards.

example here The Ants of India

Links

 * Sandbox/Help work
 * wikipedia picture of the day
 * user page with good editing and writing pages links: see lower down on page under the heading Wikipedia stuff
 * tip of the day tips about editing wikimedia/wikipedia. There is also a tips category and a page with a long list of tips.

Offsite Links
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