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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.
The MediaWiki software (the wiki software that is used here at 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 ==
== Bold and italic text ==
To mark text as '''bold''' or ''italic'' put inverted commata (') before and after those parts – two for italic and three for bold For example:
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>'''''bold+italic'''''</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.
Note that MediaWiki (like most Wikis) processes wiki syntax line-by-line, so if you want three bold lines of text, so you will have to format every line separately.


== Headings ==
== Headings ==
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