Wiki Editing
<span style="color:red">red writing</span> red writing shows as red writing
<span style="color:#0f0">green writing</span> green writing shows as green writing
<span style="color:#0000FF">blue writing</span> blue writing shows as blue writing
List of functions
(apart from the last two examples, these pieces of wikitext are created by typing abc, selecting it and clicking the buttons on the toolbar)
Icon | Function | What it shows when editing | What it shows on the page |
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Bold or strong emphasis | '''abc'''
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abc | |
Italic or emphasis | ''abc''
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abc | |
Internal link | [[meta:Sandbox|abc]]
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abc | |
External link | [abc.com]
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Section heading | == abc ==
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abc | |
Insert image | [[Image:abc.png]]
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File:Abc.png | |
Insert media | [[Media:abc.ogg]]
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Media:abc.ogg | |
Mathematical formula | <math>abc</math>
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<math>abc</math> | |
Ignore wiki formatting | <nowiki>abc '''[[Bold text]]'''</nowiki>
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abc '''[[Bold text]]''' | |
Sign talk comments (with time stamp) | ~~~~
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Gareth Aus 22:49, 11 February 2006 (UTC) | |
Horizontal line | ----
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Organizing your writing — sections, paragraphs, lists and lines
What it looks like | What you type |
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Start sections with header lines Note: Single equal signs give the highest level heading, like the page title; usually projects have the convention not to use them. New section Subsection Sub-subsection
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== New section == === Subsection === ==== Sub-subsection ==== |
A single newline has no effect on the layout. But an empty line starts a new paragraph, or ends a list or indented part. (<p> disables this paragraphing until </p> or the end of the section) (In Cologne blue, two newlines and a div tag give just one newline; in the order newline, div tag, newline, the result is two newlines.) A semicolon at the start of a line is not rendered, but has the effect of rendering the newline. A colon in such a line is not rendered, but has the effect of starting a new, indented line, see definition list.
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A single newline has no effect on the layout. But an empty line starts a new paragraph. |
You can break lines without starting a new paragraph.
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You can break lines <br/> without starting a new paragraph. |
marks the end of the list.
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* Unordered Lists are easy to do: ** start every line with a star, *** more stars means deeper levels. * A newline * in a list marks the end of the list. * Of course, * you can * start again. |
marks the end of the list.
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# Numbered lists are also good ## very organized ## easy to follow # A newline # in a list marks the end of the list. # New numbering starts # with 1. |
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* You can even do mixed lists *# and nest them *#* or break lines <br/>in lists |
Definition list
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; word : definition of the word ; longer phrase : phrase defined
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A manual newline starts a new paragraph.
In the case of a semicolon and some text in front of the colon, the first colon starts a new line (indented as before) even though it is in the wikitext not at the start of the line, see definition list. |
: A colon indents a line or paragraph. A manual newline starts a new paragraph. |
When there is a need for separating a block of text
This is useful for (as the name says) inserting blocks of quoted (and cited) text. |
<blockquote> The '''blockquote''' command will indent both margins when needed instead of the left margin only as the colon does. </blockquote> |
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<center>Centered text.</center> |
A horizontal dividing line:
this is above it... ...and this is below it. If you don't use a section header, you don't get a TOC entry. |
A horizontal dividing line: this is above it... ---- ...and this is below it. |
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