MediaWiki_Markup

This page forms a quick reference for editing. It is based of the more
detailed version at
Wikipedia.

Text Formatting

When making a website, you can format the contents of that page using
HTML tags. A tag consists of two parts; the start and the end. Different
tags have different effects on text. An example of a HTML tag is
<b>your text</b>, which appears as your text. Wiki markup uses
tags, but not neccessarily the same ones as HTML. For example, although
<b>your text</b> is HTML code, it will still produce your text if
you put it into a Wiki page. Below is a general outline of the Wiki
syntax; some code uses the HTML tag structure.

Format & Appearance	Code
Bold	'''text'''
Italics	''text''
Underline	<ins>text</ins>
Strikethrough	<del>text</del>
Indent	:text Used when replying to a message on a Wiki page.
Unordered List	*text
Ordered List	#text
Code	<code>text</code>
Syntax highlighted text	<syntaxhighlight lang="text">text</syntaxhighlight> Other languages you might want to use are edl, html4strict, html5, c, and cpp. All supported languages can be found here.

Hyperlinks

Link Type	Code	Preview
Link to page on wiki	[Main_Page\](Main Page)	Main Page
Link to page on wiki (renamed)	[Main_Page\](Home)	Home
Link to external page (with external page icon)	[http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]	Wikipedia
Link to external page (without external page icon)	<span class="plainlinks">[http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]</span>	Wikipedia
Link to non-existing page on wiki	[NONEXISTINGPAGE\](NONEXISTINGPAGE)	NONEXISTINGPAGE

See here
for more link types.

Tables

{| border="1" class="wikitable"
|+ Heading
! Column
! Column
! Column
|-
! Row
| Example || Example
|-
! Row
| Example
| Example
|}

Produces:

Column	Column	Column
Row	Example	Example
Row	Example	Example

Heading

Similarly,

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Heading
! Column !! Column !! Column
|-
| Row || Example || Example
|-
| Row || Example || Example
|-
| Row || Example || Example
|}

Produces:

Column	Column	Column
Row	Example	Example
Row	Example	Example
Row	Example	Example

Heading

See here for more information
about tables.

See Also

• Article maintenance
• Contribution Guidelines