Help:Editing
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[edit] Wiki mark-up
This is a combination of special symbols and a limited subset of html.
It is possible to produce perfectly good articles using the relatively small number of tags listed below
[edit] Headings
Headings are produced by placing equal signs on either side of the text you want to use in the heading ==example==. Adding an extra equal sign will allow you to create a sub heading.
[edit] Bolding
Bolding is produced by typing three apostrophes on each side of the word that you want to bold '''example'''.
[edit] Italics
Italics are produced by typing two apostrophes on each side of the word that you want to make italic ''example''.
[edit] Internal links
This is done by putting the name of the article inside double square brackets [[example]]. To make an internal link with different text than the link name, use a pipe character: [[Link Name|the text]]
[edit] External links
There are two ways of doing this:
- the first [http://www.example.com] produces this [1] and is useful for citations
- the second [http://www.example.com example.com] produces this example.com and is useful for putting in links to useful websites.
[edit] Indentation
Use a colon as the first character on a line to indent, as for block-quotes and examples. Use multiple colons for deeper indentation. ::example produces
- example
[edit] Bullets and Numbered Lists
If you put an asterisk before each bullet point at the beginning of a line:
- You get
- a list
- of bulletted
- points
For a numbered list, use the "#" symbol instead of an asterisk:
- You must
- Use a Different
- first character
- to get a
- numbered list
[edit] Boxes and diagrams
Beginning a line with a space places the text in a box. This can be used to make crude ascii diagrams until images become available.
A box
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) | PROPOSED
) | FREE ENERGY DEVICE
| |
+--|>|--+
/ |
|555|--vvv--< |
\ ===
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