Wiki Style Guide

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Most of what can be done below can be done easier in the regular editor as opposed to Edit Source.

Text Formatting

This is how you format text with the source editor. You can do most of this with normal editor.

Italics

''Word'' = word

Two apostrophe on each side.

Bold

'''Word''' = word

Three apostrophe on each side.

Bold & Italic

''''Word'''' = word

Four apostrophe on each side.

No Wiki Markup

<nowiki>''markup'' </nowiki> = ''markup''

Negates any formatting you put in.

Section Formatting

Headings

==Section Level 2==

===Section Level 3===

etc.

The headings divide the sections of the wiki, examples being the "Text Formatting" and "Section Formatting" headers for this page. It goes down to Level 6 with six (======) on each side. Having more than 3 headings on a page will auto-generate a table of contents.

Divider Lines

---- makes the below line.


Bullet Points & Lists

You can start a bullet point or numbered list with a * or # respectivly.

  • List
  1. List

Would be

* List

# List

Adding more * or #s would indent it further in.

* List

** Moar indent

Like this

  • List
    • Moar indent

If you try to do ** or more without having the first * of the list it will look like

    • This

You can also do Definition lists like this

;item 1

: definition 1

;item 2

: definition 2-1

: definition 2-2

item 1
definition 1
item 2
definition 2-1
definition 2-2
All of these list types should work together. See here for more on lists.
Indents

: Makes an indent

Indent
Double indent with two (:: and a space after it)

More colons indent it further.

HTML Tagging

Preformatted text

Aka this block ^

Can be done by typing a space at the beginning of a line or by

<pre> This </pre>

 This 

Regular text formatting like Bold, italics, etc works inside of this.

Underline and Strikethrough

<ins>Text</ins> or <u>Text</u> will make this:

Text .

<del>Text</del> or <s>Text</s> will make this:

Text

Quotes

<q>Quote</q>

Quote

This does nothing special besides adding quotation marks to the text, so I would just use them normally instead of the extra code.

Source Comments

<!-- This is a comment -->

Adding the <!-- and ending it with a > makes a comment that only page editors can see when using the "Edit Source" button.

Symbols

Symbols can be added with HTML formatting, using this Wikipedia page to get the symbol name from the "Names" Category on the table there.

&copy; would make this symbol : ©

All you need is &symbolname; (and symbol, the symbol name, and a semicolon).

Tables

They made a better tutorial than one I can write.

Navboxes and Infoboxes

Copy and edit the values from the code on these pages. Infobox Template: Page (Ignore everything under the comment in Source edit.

Navbox Template: Page (This is just to show how it is formatted, to make your own you will need to make a page called Template:Navboxname and format it like this one.)

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