Help:Format
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Formatting Reference Page
For a more exhaustive presentation, see: PESWiki:How to edit a page
(This is Sterling's at-a-glance code page.)
| Table of contents |
Formatting
= Section Heading =
== Subsection Heading ==
See also Help:Headers
*bullet
**sub bullet
#numbered list
##subnumbered list
---- horizonal line
: indent (colon + space)
; Definition list : list of definitions
Begin line with space to be formatted inside a light purple box. Don't forget to manually carriage return
line break<br>
(extra space)
→ (right arrow)
Emphasis
''bold'''
<b>bold</b>
''italics''
<em>italics</em>
'''''bold italics'''''
<b><em>bold italics</b></em>
<nowiki><strike>strike out</strike>
<u>underline</u>
<font size="4">text</font> (3 = normal; 1-7)
<small>small text</small>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<center>Center text</center>
<tt>monospace text</tt>
Linking
[[link within wiki]] (will display "link within wiki") (refers to a file name)
[[link|hyperlinked text]] (will display "hyperlinked text")
[[#section link]] (within page)
http://website.com (will automatically hyperlink)
[http://externalsite.com text to display] (space after url)
[http://url.com] (numbered footnote)
#REDIRECT [[Main_Page]] (first line of page)
Date Insert
{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}, {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}}, {{CURRENTYEAR}}; {{CURRENTTIME}} GMT
Images
[[Image:Wiki.png]] (will show image)
[[Image:Wiki.png|alt text]]
[[Image:Wiki.png|frame|right|Caption Text]] (float right)
[[Image:Wiki.png|right|]] (no caption)
[[:Image:Wiki.png]] (link to image)
[[:Image:Wiki.png|text displayed]] (link to image)
Tables
Can use regular HTML or XHTML or Wiki-pipe
see: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table
Method 1
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{| border=1
| 1 || 2
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| 3 || 4
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| 5 || 6
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Method 2
For a column with just one row.
(remove line spaces)
{{Col-begin}}
{{col-break}}
Column 1 contents
{{col-break}}
Column 2 contents
{{col-end}}
Other
<nowiki>disable format</nowiki>
__NOTOC__ (forces auto table of contents to disappear)
{{TOCright}} - moves table of contents right
<!-- comment not displayed in page, only in edit view -->
[[Special:Contributions/UserName]]
{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}
{{PAGENAME}}
{{localurl:pagename}}
{{US patent|3048777}}
Characters
See Wikipedia: How to edit a page > Character formatting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page#Character_formatting) for the following abilities:
- Special Punctuation
- Commercial symbols
- Umlauts and accents
- Greek characters
- Math characters
- Complicated formulas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TeX_markup
