Help:Editing

Basics

• MediaWiki page on formatting
  

All the basic formatting, like bold, italics, and linking.

Bold: Wrap text in triple apostrophes, like this: '''Example'''

Example

Italic: Wrap text in double apostrophes (NOT quotation marks), like this: ''Example''

Example

Link to page: Wrap the title in double brackets, like this: [[Example]]

Example

More about linking is covered in the Linking section.

External link: Wrap the URL in brackets, like this: [http://xyndros.ath.cx/ Link Title]

Link Title

Include template: Wrap the template title (without the "Template:") in double curly brackets, like this: {{Example}}

This would be an example of a template, but i don't know how to make them, so its just a page. For a list of the 5 templates currently on this wiki, go [[Templates|here]

Section header: Wrap the section title with two equal signs on each side, like this: ==Example== For subsections, place three equal signs instead of two. Articles will gain a table of contents when it has four or more sections.

For help, see the source of this page, and you will learn (click on view: source)

Lists

Bulleted list

To make a bulleted list, place a star before each list item. You can place two stars before each item to make a sublist.

Example:

• Example
• Example
  • Example
  • Example

Numbered list

To make a numbered list, place a number sign before each list item. As with bulleted lists, you can place two to make a sublist.

Example:

1. Example
2. Example
   1. Example
   2. Example

Unmarked list

To make an unmarked list, place a colon before each list item. Two colons, sublist, etc.

Example:

Example

Example

Example

Example

Tables

Read this.

Signing your posts

To sign your posts on a talk page, simply add ~~~~ at the end of your post. It is possible to create a custom signature; see Special:Preferences.

Pictures

Example of left-aligned picture with caption

You can place images right in the middle of the text using [[Image:Example.jpg]].

But use [[Image:Example.jpg|thumb|left|(caption)]] where (caption) is some text to be placed under it, so it doesn't mess up the page.

Linking

Before	After
[[A]]	A
[[a|b]]	b (link to a, labeled b)
[[a]]b	ab
[[a|b]]c	bc
a[[b]]	ab

Redirects

Redirect pages are made when there are multiple names for a single thing, to send an acronym to the full name article, to correct common spelling errors and when an the orignaly searched for article is a sub article of a different article.

To create a redirect create the page that is incorrect and use #REDIRECT [[NAME OF CORRECT PAGE]]

after creating a page with that code on it anyone who searches for the incorrect page should be automatically redirected to the correct page.

Do not redirect to a redirect, it will not work.

Placing a page in a category

To place a page within a category you would need to find the bottom of the page being edited, type

Category:Wiki

the second word being the category of course, then wrap it in two sets of brackets. (see the edit page for how this is done) Example: