Help:WikiSyntax

You can format your text using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in italic, you include it in two single quotes like

Text formatting markup
{| class="wikitable" ! style="width:15%" |Description ! style="width:45%" |You type ! style="width:40%" |You get ! colspan="3" align="center" style="background:#A7C1F2" | character formatting - applies anywhere &lt;nowiki>no markup ! colspan="3" align="center" style="background:#A7C1F2"| section formatting - only at the beginning of the line =level 1=
 * Italic text
 * italic
 * italic
 * Bold text
 * bold
 * bold
 * Bold and italic
 * bold & italic
 * bold & italic
 * Escape wiki markup
 * bold & italic
 * bold & italic
 * Escape wiki markup
 * Escape wiki markup
 * no markup
 * Headings of different levels
 * Headings of different levels

level 6
An article with four or more headings will automatically create a table of contents.



Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6
 * Horizontal rule
 * Horizontal rule

Inserting a blank line will end the first list and start another. spanning several lines without breaking the numbering spanning several lines without breaking the numbering
 * Bullet list
 * Bullet list
 * one
 * two
 * three
 * three point one
 * three point two
 * one
 * two
 * three
 * three point one
 * three point two
 * Numbered list
 * Numbered list
 * Numbered list
 * 1) one
 * 2) two
 * 1) three
 * 2) three point one
 * 3) three point two
 * 1) one
 * 2) two
 * 1) two
 * 1) three
 * 2) three point one
 * 3) three point two
 * Definition list
 * Definition list
 * item 1
 * definition 1


 * item 2
 * definition 2-1
 * definition 2-2


 * item 1
 * definition 1
 * definition 1


 * item 2
 * definition 2-1
 * definition 2-2


 * Adopting definition list to indent text
 * Adopting definition list to indent text
 * Double indent
 * Multiple indent

This adoption may be controversial from the viewpoint of accessibility.
 * Single indent
 * Double indent
 * Multiple indent
 * Multiple indent


 * Mixture of different types of list
 * Mixture of different types of list
 * 1) one
 * 2) two
 * 3) * two point one
 * 4) * two point two
 * 5) three
 * 6) ; three item one
 * three def one
 * 1) four
 * four def one
 * this rather looks like the continuation of # four
 * and thus often used instead of


 * 1) five
 * 2) five sub 1
 * 3) five sub 1 sub 1
 * 4) five sub 2
 * item 1
 * definition 1-1
 * definition 1-2
 * item 2
 * definition 2-1
 * definition 2-2
 * definition 2-2

The usage of  and    for breaking a line within an item may also be controversial.
 * 1) one
 * 2) two
 * 3) * two point one
 * 4) * two point two
 * 5) three
 * 6) ; three item one
 * three def one
 * 1) four
 * four def one
 * this rather looks like the continuation of
 * and thus often used instead of
 * 1) five
 * 2) five sub 1
 * 3) five sub 1 sub 1
 * 4) five sub 2
 * item 1
 * definition 1-1
 * definition 1-2
 * item 2
 * definition 2-1
 * definition 2-2
 * definition 2-1
 * definition 2-2

preformatted text is done with a space at the beginning of the line This way of preformatting only applies to section formatting, and character formatting markups are still effective. preformatted text is done with a space at the beginning of the line
 * Preformatted text
 * Preformatted text
 * Preformatted text
 * }

Paragraphs
MediaWiki ignores normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can force a line break within a paragraph with the HTML tags.

HTML
Some HTML tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example,  ,   and. These apply anywhere you insert them.

Cites
The basic concept of the  tag is that it inserts the text enclosed by the ref tags as a footnote in a designated section, which you indicate with the placeholder tag. The new format cannot be used interchangeably with the old format - you must pick one or the other.

If you forget to include  in the article, the footnotes will not appear, but a red error message will be displayed at the end of the page.

{| class="wikitable" !Description !You type !You get
 * Simple references:
 * Simple references:

According to scientists, the Sun is pretty big.

The Moon, however, is not so big.

Notes . You can then refer to the same footnote again by using a ref tag with the same name. The text inside the second tag doesn't matter, because the text already exists in the first reference. You can either copy the whole footnote, or you can use a terminated empty ref tag that looks like this:.

{| class="wikitable" This is an example of multiple references to the same footnote.
 * Multiple references:
 * Multiple references:

Such references are particularly useful when citing sources, if different statements come from the same source.

A concise way to make multiple references is to use empty ref tags, which have a slash at the end. Although this may reduce redundant work, please be aware that if a future editor removes the first reference, this will result in the loss of all references using the empty ref tags.

Notes

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Check at the Mediawiki extension page the complete list of all supported language syntax.