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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]]. | 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]]. | ||
The MediaWiki software that is the wiki software used here for WikiIndex uses a special wiki markup language that is quite intuitive and very easy to learn. However one can also use HTML tags. That's handy in case wiki syntax doesn't provide a needed formatting feature. | |||
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. | |||
== Basic text == | == Basic text == | ||
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* There is no need to encode HTML characters like <, >, & or " | * There is no need to encode HTML characters like <, >, & or " | ||
== Bold, italic, and fixed-width text == | |||
To mark text as | To mark text as '''bold''' or ''italic'' put inverted commata (') before and after those parts – two for italic and three for bold For example: | ||
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''''' | |||
<nowiki>''italic''</nowiki>, | |||
<nowiki>'''bold'''</nowiki>, | |||
<nowiki>'''''bold+italic'''''</nowiki>. | |||
Note that MediaWiki (like most Wikis) processes pages line-by-line, so if you want three bold lines of text, so you will have to format every line separately. | |||
== Headings == | == Headings == | ||
Headings are delimited by | Headings are delimited by 1–6 equal signs (=). They basically correspond to HTML's <nowiki><h1></nowiki> through <nowiki><h6></nowiki> tags. | ||
<pre>= Headline | <pre>= Headline of first order = | ||
== Headline | == Headline of second order == | ||
=== Headline | === Headline of third order === | ||
==== Headline | ==== Headline of fourth order ==== | ||
===== Headline | ===== Headline of fifth order ===== | ||
====== Headline | ====== Headline of sixth order ======</pre> | ||
== Lists == | == Lists == | ||
Lists are made by preceding list items by asterisk signs (*) for bulleted lists or number signs (#) for numbered lists. | |||
Simple lists: | Simple lists: | ||
<pre> | <pre> | ||
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== Indented text == | == Indented text == | ||
To indent paragraphs preceed them with colon signs (:); use several colons to obtain several levels of indentation. | |||
Simple indented text: | Simple indented text: | ||
<pre> | <pre> | ||
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== Preformatted text == | == Preformatted text == | ||
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. | Individual lines can be displayed as preformatted (with 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. | ||
<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> | <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> | ||