This page is designed to answer questions regarding Japanese and its use on Wikipedia. If you have trouble viewing Japanese, please see the Installing Japanese character sets page for assistance for your particular operating system.
The W3C Markup Validation Service lets editors check web pages for conformance to HTML and XHTML standards. It is helpful for catching minor problems such as duplicate section names or citation IDs. Although most major browsers will tolerate many of the errors, and will display a document successfully even if it contains errors, they may misbehave on documents that contain the errors: for example, they may go to the wrong section or citation if you click the mouse on a wikilink. Checking that a page contain..
This page explains how to create footnotes on Wikipedia pages. Footnotes are used most commonly to provide references to reliable sources in articles, although they have other uses as well. They are generated using the following tags in the editable text of a page: within the text, and or at the end where the footnote list is to appear.
An infobox is a fixed-format table designed to be added to the top right-hand corner of articles to consistently present a summary of some unifying aspect that the articles share and sometimes to improve navigation to other interrelated articles. Many infoboxes also emit metadata and are used by DBpedia for that purpose. The generalized infobox feature grew out of the original taxoboxes (taxonomy infoboxes) that editors developed to visually express the scientific classification of organisms.
