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Help:Editing Cheatsheet
Just to make things easier, we've included a quick reference sheet below that can be used to quickly determine how to do various formatting things in mediawiki.
What it looks like | What you type | Notes |
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Bloomington | [[Bloomington]] | Regular article link with the article title as the link text |
our town | [[Bloomington|our town]] | Alternate link text link. You can use a | between the article title and the alternate link text. |
Indiana University website | [http://www.indiana.edu/ Indiana University website] | Link to external URL. The first space seperates the URL from the link text. |
Wikipedia article on Bloomington | [[WikiPedia:Bloomington,_Indiana|Wikipedia article on Bloomington]] | Interwiki link. The colon charcter seperates the wiki name from the article name. For WikiPedia, this goes to the English version by default. |
Bold text | '''Bold text''' | Make text within the triple single quotes boldface. |
Italics | ''Italics'' | Make text within the double single quotes italics. |
Section header |
== Section header == | Top level section header |
Sub-level section header | === Sub-level section header === | Header below top level header |
Sub-Sub-level section header | ==== Sub-Sub-level section header ==== | Lowest level header. Do not skip directly from top level header to this header. |
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*Item 1 |
Create an unordered list of items |
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#Planes |
Create an ordered (numbered) list of items |
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*Fruits |
Multilevel unordered list |
A space at the beginning of a line |
A space at the beginning of a line |
Putting a space before content at the beginning of a line creates a box around that content with a dashed border. |
Chrobb 17:44, 2 March 2006 (GMT) | ~~~~ | User timestamp signature. The four tildes (~) is what does it. Putting a dash or two in front of it is good form. Like this: -- ~~~~ |
Mark | ~~~ | Just the username |
10:22, 9 May 2006 (EDT) | ~~~~~ | Timestamp |
Prevent wiki processing | <nowiki></nowiki> | Put these nowiki tags around anything that you want to be interpreted literally and not be interpreted as wiki shorthand. |
[[Image:Showalter-odd-fish.jpg]] | Putting a full size image on a page. | |
[[Image:Showalter-odd-fish.jpg|thumb|100px]] | Thumbnailed image | |
[[Image:Showalter-odd-fish.jpg|thumb|100px|left]] | Thumbnailed image left aligned | |
[[Image:Showalter-odd-fish.jpg|thumb|100px|left|Showalter Fountain Fish]] | Thumbnailed image with caption "Showalter Fountain Fish" | |
[[Image:Showalter-odd-fish.jpg|thumb|100px|left|[[Showalter Fountain]] Fish]] | Image with caption containing link to Showalter Fountain article. | |