Help:Editing: Difference between revisions

118Wiki is a [[Wiki|WikiWiki]], meaning that anyone can easily edit any unprotected article and have those changes posted immediately. This page is the reference for '''Wiki markup'''.

''See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Minor_edit 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 [[Special:Recentchanges|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.

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 [[118Wiki:Sand Box|Sandbox]].

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| width="25%" style="background: #cedff2; padding: 3px 5px; text-align:center;"|'''Description'''

| style="background: #cedff2; padding: 3px 5px; text-align:center;"|'''You type'''

| width="25%" style="background: #cedff2; padding: 3px 5px; text-align:center;"|'''You get'''

|-

| colspan="3" style="background: #cedff2; padding: 3px 5px; text-align:center;" | ''applies anywhere''

|-

|<tt><nowiki>''italic''</nowiki></tt>

|-

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|-

|<tt><nowiki>'''bold'''</nowiki></tt>

|colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cedff2;"|

|<tt><nowiki>'''''bold & italic'''''</nowiki></tt>

|colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cedff2;"|

| Internal link<br/>

|<tt><nowiki>[[name of page]]</nowiki><br/>

<nowiki>[[name of page|display text]]</nowiki>

|[[name of page]]<br/>

[[name of page|display text]]</tt>

|colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cedff2;"|

|-

| External link<br/>

|<tt><nowiki>[http://www.example.com]</nowiki><br/>

<nowiki>[http://www.example.com display text]</nowiki><br/>

<nowiki> http://www.example.com </nowiki>

| [http://www.example.com]<br/>

[http://www.example.com display text]<br/>

http://www.example.com

|<tt><nowiki><nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki></nowiki></tt>

|<nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki>

| colspan="3" style="background: #cedff2; padding: 3px 5px; text-align:center;" | ''  applies only at the beginning of the line''

|Headings<br>

<tt><nowiki>==level 1==</nowiki></tt><br />

<tt><nowiki>===level 2===</nowiki></tt><br />

<tt><nowiki>====level 3====</nowiki></tt><br />

<tt><nowiki>=====level 4=====</nowiki></tt>

&#42; one<br>

&#42; two<br>

&#42;&#42; two point one<br/>

&#42; three<br>

* one

* two

** two point one

&#35; one<br>

&#35; two<br>

&#35;&#35; two point one<br/>

&#35; three<br>

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| Definition list

&#59;Definition<br>

&#58;item 1<br>

&#58;item 2<br>

:item 2

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&nbsp;&nbsp;a space at the<br/>

&nbsp;&nbsp;beginning of each line<br/>

&nbsp;&nbsp;creates unformatted<br/>

|colspan="3" align="center" style="border-top:1px solid #B8C7D9;"|[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents/Editing_Wikipedia More editing help]

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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 <nowiki>__NOTOC__ </nowiki> anywhere forces the TOC to disappear. See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Section#Compact_TOC compact TOC] for alphabet and year headings.

===Tables===

 

*in special Wiki-markup (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Table Wikipedia Help:Table])

For the latter, and a discussion on when tables are appropriate, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_use_tables Wikipedia:How to use tables].

| <nowiki>{{CURRENTMONTH}}</nowiki> || {{CURRENTMONTH}}

| <nowiki>{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}</nowiki>

| <nowiki>{{CURRENTDAY}}</nowiki> || {{CURRENTDAY}}

| <nowiki>{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}</nowiki> || {{CURRENTDAYNAME}}

| <nowiki>{{CURRENTYEAR}}</nowiki> || {{CURRENTYEAR}}

| <nowiki>{{CURRENTTIME}}</nowiki> || {{CURRENTTIME}}

| {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}

| <nowiki>{{PAGENAME}}</nowiki> || {{PAGENAME}}

| <nowiki>{{NAMESPACE}}</nowiki> || {{NAMESPACE}}

| <nowiki>{{REVISIONID}}</nowiki> || {{REVISIONID}}

| <nowiki>{{localurl:pagename}}</nowiki>

| <nowiki>{{localurl:</nowiki>''Wikipedia:Sandbox''<nowiki>|action=edit}}</nowiki>

| <nowiki>{{SERVER}}</nowiki> || {{SERVER}}

| <nowiki>{{ns:1}}</nowiki> || {{ns:1}}

| <nowiki>{{ns:2}}</nowiki> || {{ns:2}}

| <nowiki>{{ns:3}}</nowiki> || {{ns:3}}

| <nowiki>{{ns:4}}</nowiki> || {{ns:4}}

| <nowiki>{{ns:5}}</nowiki> || {{ns:5}}

| <nowiki>{{ns:6}}</nowiki> || {{ns:6}}

| <nowiki>{{ns:7}}</nowiki> || {{ns:7}}

| <nowiki>{{ns:8}}</nowiki> || {{ns:8}}

| <nowiki>{{ns:9}}</nowiki> || {{ns:9}}

| <nowiki>{{ns:10}}</nowiki> || {{ns:10}}

| <nowiki>{{ns:11}}</nowiki> || {{ns:11}}

| <nowiki>{{ns:12}}</nowiki> || {{ns:12}}

| <nowiki>{{ns:13}}</nowiki> || {{ns:13}}

| <nowiki>{{ns:14}}</nowiki> || {{ns:14}}

| <nowiki>{{ns:15}}</nowiki> || {{ns:15}}

| <nowiki>{{SITENAME}}</nowiki> || {{SITENAME}}

'''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.