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Wiki Markup is used to format the text shown on wiki pages. Text characters such as asterisks, single quotes and equal signs can be used to perform a special function in the wiki, depending on their position in the source text.
- For example, to format a word in bold, you include it in three single quotes like '''this'''. It is traditional to format the first appearance of the article's name in bold, without using a page link back to itself.
- To start a new paragraph, use two line breaks to leave an empty line. Any single line breaks will be ignored when formatted but you can use the <br> HTML tag to start a new line.
- The page title is automatically added as a level 1 heading. Additional headings should therefore start at level 2 (using three equal signs). An article with four or more headings will automatically create a table of contents.
| Description
| You type
| You get
|
| applies anywhere
|
| Italic text
| ''italic''
| italic
|
| Bold text
| '''bold'''
| bold
|
| Bold and italic
| '''''bold & italic'''''
| bold & italic
|
| Escape wiki markup
| <nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki>
| no ''markup''
|
| only at the beginning of the line
|
Headings of
different levels
|
==level 1==
===level 2===
====level 3====
=====level 4=====
|
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
|
| Horizontal rule
|
----
|
|
| Bullet list
|
* one
* two
* three
** three and one-third
** three and two-thirds
|
- one
- two
- three
- three and one-third
- three and two-thirds
|
| Numbered list
|
# one
# two<br>spanning several lines<br>without breaking the numbering
# three
## three point one
## three point two
|
- one
- two
spanning several lines
without breaking the numbering
- three
- three point one
- three point two
|
Mixture of bulleted
and numbered lists
|
# one
# two
#* two point one
#* two point two
|
- one
- two
- two point one
- two point two
|
| Preformatted text
|
preformatted text is done with
a space at the
beginning of the line
|
preformatted text is done with
a space at the
beginning of the line
|
