Help:Editing

From http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting

You can format your text using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in italic, you include it in two single quotes like ttnowikithis/nowiki/tt

Text formatting markup

Description	You type	You get
applies anywhere
Italic text	ttnowikiitalic/nowiki/tt	italic
Bold text	ttnowikibold/nowiki/tt	bold
Bold and italic	ttnowikibold italic/nowiki/tt	bold italic
Escape wiki markup	ttnowikinowikino markup/nowiki/nowiki/tt	nowikino markup/nowiki
only at the beginning of the line
Headings ofbr / different sizes	ttnowiki==level 1==/nowiki/ttbr / ttnowiki===level 2===/nowiki/ttbr / ttnowiki====level 3====/nowiki/ttbr / ttnowiki=====level 4=====/nowiki/tt	Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
Horizontal rule	ttnowiki----/nowiki/tt
Bullet list	42; onebr 42; twobr 42; threebr 42;#42; three and one-thirdbr 42;#42; three and two-thirdsbr	one two three three and one-third three and two-thirds
Numbered list	35; onebr / 35; twobr / 35; threebr / 35;#35; three point onebr / 35;#35; three point twobr /	one two three three point one three point two
Mixture of bulletedbr / and numbered lists	35; onebr / 35; twobr / 35;#42; two point onebr / 35;#42; two point twobr /	one two two point one two point two
Definition list	59;Definitionbr / 58;item 1br / 58;item 2br /	Definition item 1 item 2
Preformatted text	nbsp;nbsp;preformatted text is done withbr / nbsp;nbsp;a space at thebr / nbsp;nbsp;beginning of the linebr /	preformatted text is done with a space at the beginning of the line

Paragraphs

Mediawiki ignores normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can also start a newline with the HTML tag ttnowikibrnbsp;//nowiki/tt.

HTML

Some HTML-Tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example ttnowikicode/nowiki/tt, ttnowikidiv/nowiki/tt, ttnowikispan/nowiki/tt and ttnowikifont/nowiki/tt.

Admin tip: If you trust your users you can allow full HTML by setting code$wgRawHtml = true;/code in LocalSettings.php. Switch off HTML completely with $wgUserHtml = false;.

More advanced formatting

Beyond the basic text formatting markup shown above, there are some more advanced formatting tricks:

• Links
• Images
• Tables

External Links

MetaWiki: Help:Editing