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Writing a Wiki Article
Formatting
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|Bullet list
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* one
* two
* three
** three and one-third
** three and two-thirds
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- one
- two
- three
- three and one-third
- three and two-thirds
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|Numbered list
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# one
# two<br>spanning several lines<br>without breaking the numbering
# three
## three point one
## three point two
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- one
- two
spanning several lines
without breaking the numbering - three
- three point one
- three point two
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| Mixture of bulleted
and numbered lists
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# one
# two
#* two point one
#* two point two
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- one
- two
- two point one
- two point two
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|Definition list
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;Definition
:item 1
:item 2
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- Definition
- item 1
- item 2
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|Preformatted text
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preformatted text is done with
a space at the
beginning of the line
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preformatted text is done with a space at the beginning of the line
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Notes:
Paragraphs
MediaWiki ignores normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can also start a new line with the HTML tags <br> or <br/>.
HTML
Some HTML tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example <code>, <div>, <span> and <font>.
Links
You will often want to make clickable links to other pages.
Description | You type | You get |
Internal link | [[Main Page]] | Main Page |
Category link | [[:Category:Help]] | Category:Help |
Piped link | [[Main Page|different text]] | different text |
Anchor link | [[#External links|Anchor link]] | Anchor link |
External link | http://mediawiki.org | http://mediawiki.org |
Internal link to image file | [[media:example.jpg]] | media:example.jpg |
External link, different title |
[http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki] | MediaWiki |
External link, unnamed |
[http://mediawiki.org] | [1] |
External link, same host unnamed |
[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename] | [2] |
Interwiki link | [[Wikipedia:MediaWiki]] | Wikipedia:MediaWiki |
mailto | mailto:info@example.org | mailto:info@example.org |
mailto unnamed | [mailto:info@example.org] | [3] |
mailto named | [mailto:info@example.org info] | info |
redirect | #REDIRECT [[Main Page]] | → Main Page |
See also Detailed Help from Media Wiki