Help:Editing
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This page is a short tutorial of the MediaWiki markup language; what you type to create wiki content.
To create a new page, type the name you want to use for it in the "search" box (left side of the page with the default skin), or create a wiki link to it from another page and click that link.
Use the "discussion" tab on each page to come to consensus about that page's content.
The "Summary" line at the bottom of an editing page lets people see at a glance, on the Recent changes page, what you did.
Use the "Show preview" button at the bottom of the editing page to view your changes while you're making them. Press the "Save page" button only when you've got an update ready for others to view.
To create a link to another page in this wiki, enclose the page name, listed at the top of the page, in double square brackets. To change the text shown for the link, put it after the page name and a vertical bar ("|").
- [[Wolfekipedia]] => Wolfekipedia
- [[Wolfekipedia|Claire's Wiki]] => Claire's Wiki
To link to a web page not in this wiki, just paste the URL, or, enclose the URL in single square brackets with the text you want to appear separated from it by a space:
- http://clairewolfe.com/blog.html => http://clairewolfe.com/blog.html
- [http://clairewolfe.com/blog.html Wolfesblog] => Wolfesblog
Put 2 apostrophes on each side of text to italicize it. Three apostrophes to make it bold. Five apostrophes to make it bold and italic:
- ''italic'' => italic
- '''bold''' => bold
- '''''bold & italic''''' => bold & italic
Newlines are usually ignored, just as in HTML. Blank lines separate paragraphs. Use an HTML <br> to create a line break without a paragraph break.
You should "sign" your comments on talk pages. Three tildes gives your signature. Four tildes gives your signature with the date. Five tildes gives only the date:
- ~~~ => Bill St. Clair
- ~~~~ => Bill St. Clair 09:05, 10 February 2007 (EST)
- ~~~~~ => 09:05, 10 February 2007 (EST)
Enclosing text in nowiki HTML tags turns off formatting. Enclosing it in tt HTML tags shows it in a fixed width (teletype) font:
- <nowiki>[[Example page]]</nowiki> => [[Example page]]
- <tt>fixed width</tt> => fixed width
Use one or more asterisks at the beginning of the line to create a bulletted list. The more asterisks, the more the indentation:
| You type | You see |
|---|---|
| * level one * more level one |
|
See the Table page for information about creating a table like the one above.
Templates are a good way to save yourself typing. If you find yourself typing the same phrase, e.g. a link, more than once, you might consider putting that text in a template. For example, look at the Template:MentalMilitiaForum page, which enables:
- {{MentalMilitiaForum}} => Mental Militia Forums
- {{MentalMilitiaForum|the forum}} => the forum
And the Template:tmmtopic page enables:
- {{tmmtopic|13011.0|new wiki tag}} => new wiki tag
Also see the List Of All TMM Wiki Templates
That should get you started. There's a lot more documentation in the For editors section of the MediaWiki User's Guide.
Feel free to use the Sandbox to play with wiki markup.
