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Formatting

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Template

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|- |Bullet list | * 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

|- |Numbered list | # one
# two<br>spanning several lines<br>without breaking the numbering
# three
## three point one
## three point two
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1. one
2. two
   spanning several lines
   without breaking the numbering
3. three
   1. three point one
   2. three point two

|- | Mixture of bulleted
and numbered lists | # one
# two
#* two point one
#* two point two
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1. one
2. two
   • two point one
   • two point two

|- |Definition list | ;Definition
:item 1
:item 2
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Definition

item 1

item 2

|- |Preformatted text |   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