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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. | 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. | ||
== Basic text == | |||
Most text does not require any special changes for wiki form. A few basic rules are: | |||
* Do not indent paragraphs. | |||
* Leave a single blank line between paragraphs. | |||
* To create a horizontal line, type 4 or more hyphen (-) characters. | |||
* There is no need to encode HTML characters like <, >, & or " | |||
== Bold and italic text == | == Bold and italic text == | ||