Help:Editing

118Wiki is a WikiWiki, meaning that anyone can easily edit any unprotected article and have those changes posted immediately. This page is the reference for Wiki markup, but is a very basic resource. If you need more assistance in editing the wiki, you will want to see the Wikipedia's Editing Wikipedia help page.

Minor edits

See also Wikipedia:Minor edit

When editing a page, a logged-in user can mark that edit as "minor". Minor edits generally mean spelling corrections, formatting, and minor rearranging of text. It is possible to hide minor edits when viewing Recent Changes. Marking a real change as a minor edit is considered bad behavior, and even more so if it involves the deletion of some text. If one has accidentally marked an edit as minor, make another edit (add an extra space between two words, or a line break), mark it major, and say "the previous edit was major" in the summary.

The wiki markup

In the left column of the table below, you can see what effects are possible. In the right column, you can see how those effects were achieved. In other words, to make text look like it looks in the left column, type it in the format you see in the right column.

You may want to keep this page open in a separate browser window for reference. If you want to try out things without danger of doing any harm, you can do so in the Sandbox.

Description	You type	You get
Applies anywhere
Italicise text	''italic''	italic
Bold text	'''bold'''	bold
Bold and italic	'''''bold & italic'''''	bold & italic
Internal link (within Wikipedia)	[[name of page]] [[name of page|display text]]	name of page display text
Redirect to another page	#redirect [[Target page]]	1. redirect Target page
External link (to other websites)	[http://www.example.com] [http://www.example.com display text] http://www.example.com	[1] display text http://www.example.com
Escape wiki markup	with ''markup'' <nowiki>without ''markup''</nowiki>	with markup without ''markup''
Applies only at the beginning of the line
Headings of different sizes	==level 1== ===level 2=== ====level 3==== =====level 4=====	Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
Bullet list	* one * two ** two point one * three	one two two point one three
Numbered list	# one # two ## two point one # three	one two two point one three
Definition list	;Definition :item 1 :item 2	Definition item 1 item 2
Unformatted text	a space at the   beginning of each line   creates unformatted   monospaced text	a space at the beginning of each line creates unformatted monospaced text
More editing help

Tables

Placement of the Table of Contents (TOC)

At the current status of the wiki markup language, at least four headers trigger the TOC in front of the first header (or after introductory sections). Putting __NOTOC__ anywhere forces the TOC to disappear. See also compact TOC for alphabet and year headings.

Tables

There are two ways to build tables:

• in special Wiki-markup (see Wikipedia Help:Table)
• with the usual HTML elements: <table>, <tr>, <td> or <th>.

For the latter, and a discussion on when tables are appropriate, see Wikipedia:How to use tables.

Variables

See also Wikipedia Help:Variable

Code	Effect	Description
{{CURRENTWEEK}}	51	Current week's number in the year
{{CURRENTDOW}}	3	Current number of the day of the week
{{CURRENTMONTH}}	12	Current month's number out of 12
{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}	December	Name of the current month
{{CURRENTDAY}}	18	Current number of the day of the month out of 31
{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}	Wednesday	Name of the current day
{{CURRENTYEAR}}	2024	Current year number
{{CURRENTTIME}}	04:22	Current time, 24 hour format
{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}	14,957	Number of "real" articles *
{{PAGENAME}}	Editing	Name of the current page
{{NAMESPACE}}	Help	Namespace the current page resides in
{{REVISIONID}}	24874	The unique ID number for this revision of the page
{{localurl:pagename}}	/wiki/index.php?title=Pagename	Page's URL without root domain
{{localurl:Wikipedia:Sandbox|action=edit}}	/wiki/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&action=edit	Link to directly edit a page, without root domain
{{SERVER}}	https://wiki.starbase118.net	Root domain
{{ns:1}}	Talk	Namespace 1
{{ns:2}}	User	Namespace 2
{{ns:3}}	User talk	Namespace 3
{{ns:4}}	118Wiki	Namespace 4
{{ns:5}}	118Wiki talk	Namespace 5
{{ns:6}}	File	Namespace 6
{{ns:7}}	File talk	Namespace 7
{{ns:8}}	MediaWiki	Namespace 8
{{ns:9}}	MediaWiki talk	Namespace 9
{{ns:10}}	Template	Namespace 10
{{ns:11}}	Template talk	Namespace 11
{{ns:12}}	Help	Namespace 12
{{ns:13}}	Help talk	Namespace 13
{{ns:14}}	Category	Namespace 14
{{ns:15}}	Category talk	Namespace 15
{{SITENAME}}	118Wiki	Name of the wiki

• * NUMBEROFARTICLES is the number of pages in the main namespace which contain a link and are not a redirect, in other words number of articles, stubs containing a link, and disambiguation pages.

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