Wiki Cheatsheet

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DO NOT BE AFRAID OF WIKI MARKUP! Once you have explored the editing code, you will find it becomes easier. Here is a cheatsheet to help with the basics.


Formatting

WIKI CHEATSHEET
Character Formatting
YOU WANT YOU TYPE YOU GET COMMENT
Italic text ''italic'' italics two single quote marks
Bold text '''bold''' bold three single quote marks
Bold & italic text '''''bold & italic''''' bold & italic five single quote marks
Strike text <strike>strike text</strike> strike text -
No wiki markup <nowiki>no ''italics markukp''</nowiki> no ''italics markup'' This disabled the single quotes
Subscript H<sub>2</sub>O H2O
Superscript Number<sup>exponent</sup> Numberexponent
Section Formatting
YOU WANT YOU TYPE YOU GET COMMENT
Level 2 Heading ==Level 2== Level 2 Level 1 Heading reserved for Page Name
Level 3 Heading ===Level 3=== Level 3 each successive use of "=" makes smaller heading
Horizontal Rule ---- Text before
Text after
Four hyphens (----) create a solid line across the page.
Bullet List *First Bullet
  • First Bullet
One asterik * is an unindented bullet
**Second (indented) Bullet
  • Second Bullet
Two or more asteriks ** indent the bullet
Numbered List # a numbered line
  1. a numbered line
  2. the second numbered line
A single hashtag # will create a first ordered numbered line.
Subsequent hashtagged lines will continue a numbered sequence.
## an indented numbered line
  1. an indented numbered line
  2. the second indented numbered line
Two hashtags ## will indent the numbered line under a first order numbered line.
Subsequent lines with two hashtags will continue a numbered sequence.
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YOU WANT YOU TYPE YOU GET COMMENT



























See Also

While we build our own Cheatsheet on this page, try some of these already established formatting pages on Mediwiki and Wikipedia

  1. Help with Formatting on Mediawiki
  2. Help with Wiki Markup on Wikipedia
  3. Wikipedia Cheatsheet
  4. Handy online Table Generator
  5. Help with Formatting Tables on Mediawiki

Additional Resources

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