Help:Contents
You can format your text using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in italic, you include it in two single quotes like ''this''
Text formatting markup
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 | |||
Indent text | :Indent text | Indent text | |
Headings of different levels. Use of a heading created by single equal signs is discouraged as it appears with the same formatting and size as the page title, which can be confusing. An article with four or more headings will automatically create a table of contents. |
==level 1== |
Level 1Level 2Level 3Level 4 | |
Horizontal rule |
---- |
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Bullet list |
* one |
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Numbered list |
# one |
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Mixture of bulleted and numbered lists |
# one |
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Definition list |
;Definition |
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Preformatted text |
preformatted text is done with |
preformatted text is done with a space at the beginning of the line | |
Blockquotes |
Body <blockquote> quote quote quote quote quote quote </blockquote> text text text text text text text text text text text text |
Body
text text text text text text text text text text text text |
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>.
How to link
There are four sorts of links in MediaWiki:
- internal links to other pages in the wiki
- external links to websites
- inter-wiki links (links to other wikis)
- inter-language links to other language versions of the same wiki
To add an internal link, enclose the name of the page you want to link to in double square brackets. When you save the page, you'll see the new link pointing to your page. If the page exists already, it is displayed in blue, empty pages are displayed in red. Selflinks to the current page are not transformed in URLs but displayed in bold.
The first letter of the target page is automatically capitalized and spaces are represented as underscores (typing an underscore in the link will have a similar effect as typing a space, but is not recommended, since the underscore will also be shown in the text).
Description | You type | You get |
Internal link | [[Main Page]] | Main Page |
Piped link | [[Main Page|different text]] | different text |
External link | http://mediawiki.org | http://mediawiki.org |
External link, different title |
[http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki] | MediaWiki |
External link, numbered |
[http://mediawiki.org] | [1] |
Anchor link | [[#See also]] | #See also |
Category link | [[:Category:Help]] | Category:Help |
Internal link to image file | [[media:example.jpg]] | media:example.jpg |
Interwiki link | [[Wikipedia:MediaWiki]] | Wikipedia:MediaWiki |
mailto link | [mailto:[email protected] email me] | email me |
redirect | #REDIRECT [[Main Page]] | → Main Page |
More advanced
Description | You type | You get |
Piped link, different title |
[[Main Page|<span title="different title">different text</span>]] | different text |
External link, same host unnamed |
[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename] | [2] |
mailto named with subject line and body | [mailto:[email protected]?Subject=URL%20Encoded%20Subject&body=Body%20Text info] | info |
Interwiki examples
The following are some examples of interwiki prefixes which are available by default:
prefix | destination URL | usage example |
commons | http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ | commons:MediaWiki
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mediazilla | http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ | mediazilla:1209
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metawikipedia | http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ | metawikipedia:Main Page
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mediawikiwiki | http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ | mediawikiwiki:Help:Contents
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wikibooks | http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/ | wikibooks:Main Page
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wikimedia | http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/ | wikimedia:Main Page
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wikinews | http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/ | wikinews:Main Page
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wikiquote | http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/ | wikiquote:Main Page
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wikisource | http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/ | wikisource:Main Page
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wikispecies | http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/ | wikispecies:Main Page
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wiktionary | http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ | wiktionary:Main Page
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wikipedia | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ | wikipedia:Main Page
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How to avoid auto-links
By default, when you write a URL as is, it will be transformed in an external link.
To avoid that effect, put the URL between <nowiki> start & end tags as in:
<nowiki>http://mediawiki.org</nowiki>