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Wiki Markup Cheat Sheet

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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.



Works anywhere in the text        

Description You type You get
Italics, bold, and both

''italics'', '''bold''', and '''''both'''''

italics, bold, and both

Link to another page

[[some page]]

some page

"Pipe" a link to change the link's text

[[Android (operating system)|Android]]

Android

Link to a section

[[Frog#Locomotion]]
[[Frog#Locomotion|locomotion in frogs]]

Frog#Locomotion
locomotion in frogs

Plain off-site URL

https://www.wikipedia.org

https://www.wikipedia.org

Link to an off-site URL

[https://www.wikipedia.org]

[1]

Link and link-text to an off-site URL

[https://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia]

Wikipedia

Signature
E.g., to sign your contributions when posting to a talk page

~~~~

Username (talk) 22:52, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Strike some text

<s>This text is conspicuously stricken.</s>

This text is conspicuously stricken.

Underline

<u>This text is underlined</u>

This text is underlined

Show an image

[[File:Wiki.png|thumb|Caption]]

If the image hasn't been uploaded, you'll just see its path as red text.
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]]

Category:Wikipedia basic information
File:Example.jpg



Works only at the beginnings of lines    
Description You type You get
Redirect to another page
redirects must be placed at the start of the first line

#REDIRECT [[Target page]]

File:Redirect arrow without text.svg Target page

Redirect to a section of another page

#REDIRECT [[Target page#anchorName]]

File:Redirect arrow without text.svg Target page#anchorName

Section headings
a Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article

==Level 2==
===Level 3===
====Level 4====
=====Level 5=====
======Level 6======

do not use  =Level 1=  as it is for page titles

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4

Level 5
Level 6
Bullet-point list (unnumbered list)

* One
* Two
** Two point one
* Three

  • One
  • Two
    • Two point one
  • Three
Numbered list (enumerated list)

# One
# Two
## Two point one
# Three

  1. One
  2. Two
    1. Two point one
  3. Three