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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.


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== 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 ==