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| Simple editing is one of the major benefits of using a wiki. Users can edit pages without knowing HTML, and still use many of the formatting features of HTML. Please feel free to experiment in the [[Sandbox]].
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| ===Basic Text===
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| Most text does not require any special changes for wiki form. A few basic rules are:
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| * Do not indent paragraphs.
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| * Leave a single blank line between paragraphs.
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| * To create a horizontal line, type 4 or more minus/dash/hyphen (-) characters.
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| * There is no need to encode HTML characters like <, >, or &.
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| ===Bold, Italic and Fixed-width Text===
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| To mark text as <b>bold</b>, <i>italic</i> or <code>fixed-width</code>, you can use the HTML <nowiki><b></nowiki>, <nowiki><i></nowiki> and code tags. For example:
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| <nowiki><b> bold </b></nowiki>,
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| <nowiki><i> italic </i></nowiki>,
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| <nowiki><b> <i> bold+italic </i> </b></nowiki>.
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| Note that MediaWiki (like most Wikis) processes pages line-by-line, so if you want three bold lines of text, you will need to use three separate <nowiki><b>...</b></nowiki> tags. Also note that unclosed or unmatched tags are not removed from the page.
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| MediaWiki also implements the old "quote style" of text formatting, which is used on several wikis. Briefly:
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| <pre>
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| ''Two single quotes are italics'',
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| '''three single quotes are bold''',
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| '''''five single quotes are bold and italic.'''''
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| </pre>
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| looks like:
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| ''Two single quotes are italics'',
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| '''three single quotes are bold''',
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| '''''five single quotes are bold and italic.'''''
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| ===Headings===
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| Headings are delimited by 1-6 equal signs (=). They basically correspond to HTML's <h1> through <h6> tags.
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| <pre>= Headline size 1 =
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| == Headline size 2 ==
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| === Headline size 3 ===
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| ==== Headline size 4 ====
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| ===== Headline size 5 =====
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| ====== Headline size 6 ======</pre>
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| ===Lists===
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| Simple lists:
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| <pre>
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| * Text for a bulleted list item.
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| ** Text for second-level list.
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| *** Text for third level, etc.
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| </pre>
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| ...which looks like:
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| * Text for a bulleted list item.
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| ** Text for second-level list.
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| *** Text for third level, etc.
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| Numbered lists:
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| <pre>
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| # Text for a numbered list item.
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| ## Text for second-level list.
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| ### Text for third level, etc.
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| ## Another Text for the second level.
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| </pre>
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| ...which looks like:
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| # Text for a numbered list item.
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| ## Text for second-level list.
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| ### Text for third level, etc.
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| ## Another Text for the second level.
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| ===Indented Text===
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| Simple indented text:
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| <pre>
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| : Text to be indented (quote-block)
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| :: Text indented more
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| ::: Text indented to third level
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| </pre>
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| ...which looks like:
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| : Text to be indented (quote-block)
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| :: Text indented more
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| ::: Text indented to third level
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| ===Preformatted Text===
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| Individual lines can be displayed as preformatted (fixed-width or "typewriter"-font) text by placing one or more spaces at the start of the line. Other wiki formatting (like links) will be applied to this kind of preformatted text.
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| <nowiki>Additionally, multi-line sections can be marked as pre-formatted text using lines starting with <pre> (to start pre-formatted text), and </pre> (to end preformatted text). The <pre> and </pre> tags are not displayed. Wiki links and other formatting is not done within a preformatted section. (If you want wiki formatting, use spaces at the start of the line instead of the <pre> and </pre> tags.)</nowiki>
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| For instance:
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| <pre>
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| Pre-formatted section here. No other link
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| or format processing
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| is done on pre-formatted sections.
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| For instance, [[Gazelle]] is not a link here.
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| </pre>
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| and:
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| This is the starting-spaces version of
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| preformatted text. Note that links like
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| [[Gazelle]] still work.
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