Help:Editing

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 (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 <, >,