Wiki Markup Cheat Sheet
Note: This is an abridged version of the famous
Wikipedia Syntax Cheat Sheet
-- try there if you don't see the markup codes you're looking for below.
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Italics, bold, and both |
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italics, bold, and both |
Link to another page |
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"Pipe" a link to change the link's text |
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Link to a section |
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Plain off-site URL |
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Link to an off-site URL |
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Link and link-text to an off-site URL |
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Signature
E.g., to sign your contributions when posting to a talk page
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Strike some text |
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Underline |
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This text is underlined |
Show an image |
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If the image hasn't been uploaded, you'll just see its path as red text.
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Add a page to a Category. | [[Category:Cetaceans I Have Known]] best placed near the bottom of a page |
shows "Cetaceans I Have Known" in a bar at bottom when the page is previewed or published |
Link to a category or file | [[:Category:Cetaceans I Have Known]] [[:File:File name]]
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Category:Wikipedia basic information File:Example.jpg |
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Redirect to another page
redirects must be placed at the start of the first line
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Redirect to a section of another page |
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Section headings a Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article
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Level 2Level 3Level 4Level 5Level 6 |
Bullet-point list (unnumbered list) |
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Numbered list (enumerated list) |
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