Mediawiki formatting
This is a partial copy of How to edit a page of Wikipedia. Here you can see what works and what doesn't work.
Wiki markup
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The wiki markup is the syntax system you can use to format a Wikipedia page; please see Editing for details on it, and Wikitext examples for a longer list of the possibilities of Wikitext.
Links and URLs
| What it looks like | What you type |
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London has public transport.
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<nowiki> London has [[public transport]]. </nowiki> |
San Francisco also has
public transportation.
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<nowiki> San Francisco also has [[public transport| public transportation]]. </nowiki> |
| San Francisco also has
Examples include buses, taxicabs,
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<nowiki> San Francisco also has [[public transport]]ation. Examples include [[bus]]es, [[taxicab]]s, and [[streetcar]]s. a [[micro]]<nowiki>second</nowiki> </nowiki> |
See the Manual of Style.
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<nowiki> See the [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style]]. </nowiki> |
| Manual of Style#Italics is a link to a section within another page.
#Links_and_URLs is a link to another section on the current page. Italics is a piped link to a section within another page.
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<nowiki> [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Italics]] is a link to a section within another page. [[#Links and URLs]] is a link to another section on the current page. [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Italics|Italics]] is a piped link to a section within another page.</nowiki> |
| Automatically hide stuff in parentheses:
Automatically hide namespace: Or both: But not:
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<nowiki> Automatically hide stuff in parentheses: [[kingdom (biology)|]]. Automatically hide namespace: [[Wikipedia:Village Pump|]]. Or both: [[Wikipedia: Manual of Style (headings)|]] But not: [[Wikipedia: Manual of Style#Links|]] </nowiki> |
| <!-- A village pump proposal was made so that users would be allowed to create the article shown here. Pages here would be articles requested for a long time. If you find someone has created the article, please look in requested articles and put one in its place -->
National sarcasm society is a page
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<nowiki> [[National sarcasm society]] is a page that does not exist yet. </nowiki> |
How to edit a page is a link to this page.
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<nowiki> [[Wikipedia:How to edit a page]] is a link to this page. </nowiki> |
| The character tilde (~) is used when adding a comment to a Talk page.
You should sign your comment by appending four tildes (~~~~)
Adding three tildes (~~~) will add just your user name:
and adding five tildes (~~~~~) gives the date/time alone:
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<nowiki> The character '''tilde''' (~) is used when adding a comment to a Talk page. You should sign your comment by appending four tildes (~~~~) to the comment so as to add your user name plus date/time: : ~~~~ Adding three tildes (~~~) will add just your user name: : ~~~ and adding five tildes (~~~~~) gives the date/time alone: : ~~~~~ </nowiki> |
| * Redirect one article title to another by placing a directive like the one shown to the right on the first line of the article (such as at a page titled "USA").
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<nowiki> #REDIRECT [[United States]] #REDIRECT [[United States#History|United States History]] will redirect to the [[United States]] page, to the History section if it exists </nowiki> |
| * Link to a page on the same subject in another language by placing a link of the form: [[language code:Title]] in the wiki text of the article.
For example in the article on Plankton, which is available on a lot of other wikis, the interlanguage links would look like so:
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<nowiki> </nowiki> |
| What links here and Related changes
pages can be linked as: |
<nowiki> '''What links here''' and '''Related changes''' pages can be linked as: [[Special:Whatlinkshere/ Wikipedia:How to edit a page]] and [[Special:Recentchangeslinked/ Wikipedia:How to edit a page]] </nowiki> |
| A user's Contributions page can be linked as: Contributions/UserName or Contributions/192.0.2.0 |
<nowiki> A user's '''Contributions''' page can be linked as: [[Special:Contributions/UserName]] or [[Special:Contributions/192.0.2.0]] </nowiki> |
| * To put an article in a Category, place a link like the one to the right anywhere in the article. As with interlanguage links, it does not matter where you put these links while editing as they will always show up in the same place when you save the page, but placement at the end of the edit box is recommended. | <nowiki> [[Category:Character sets]] </nowiki> |
| * To link to a Category page without putting the article into the category, use an initial colon (:) in the link. | <nowiki> [[:Category:Character sets]] </nowiki> |
Three ways to link to external (non-wiki) sources:
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<nowiki> Three ways to link to external (non-wiki) sources: # Bare URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/ (bad style) # Unnamed link: [http://en.wikipedia.org/] (only used within article body for footnotes) # Named link: [http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] </nowiki> |
Linking to other wikis:
Linking to another language's wiktionary:
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<nowiki> Linking to other wikis: # [[Interwiki]] link: [[Wiktionary:Hello]] # Interwiki link without prefix: [[Wiktionary:Hello|]] # Named interwiki link: [[Wiktionary:Hello| Wiktionary definition of 'Hello']] Linking to another language's wiktionary: # [[Wiktionary:fr:bonjour]] # [[Wiktionary:fr:bonjour|bonjour]] # [[Wiktionary:fr:bonjour|]] </nowiki> |
| ISBN 012345678X
ISBN 0-12-345678-X
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<nowiki> ISBN 012345678X ISBN 0-12-345678-X </nowiki> |
Text mentioning RFC 4321 anywhere
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<nowiki> Text mentioning RFC 4321 anywhere </nowiki> |
Date formats:
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<nowiki> Date formats: # [[July 20]], [[1969]] # [[20 July]] [[1969]] # [[1969]]-[[07-20]] # [[1969-07-20]] </nowiki> |
| Special as-of links like this year
needing future maintenance |
<nowiki> Special [[WP:AO|as-of]] links like [[As of 2006|this year]] needing future maintenance </nowiki> |
Sound
Some uploaded sounds are listed at Sound. |
<nowiki> [[media:Classical guitar scale.ogg|Sound]] </nowiki> |
Link directly to edit for an existing page, or apply other link attributes.
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<nowiki>{{fullurl:page name|action=edit}}</nowiki> |
Headings
For a top-level heading, put it on a separate line surrounded by '=='. For example:
==Introduction==
Subheadings use '===', '====', and so on.
Character formatting
| What it looks like | What you type |
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| Italicized text Bold text Italicized & Bold text |
<nowiki> ''Italicized text'' '''Bold text''' '''''Italicized & Bold text''''' </nowiki> |
| A typewriter font for monospace text or for computer code:
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<nowiki> A typewriter font for <tt>monospace text</tt> or for computer code: <code>int main()</code> </nowiki> |
Create codeblocks
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Use <code><pre> Block of Code </pre></code> around the block of code. * The <pre> tags within the code block will create formatting issues. To solve, display the tags literally with <pre> and </pre> |
| You can use <small>small text</small> for captions. | <nowiki> You can use <small>small text</small> for captions. </nowiki> |
| Better stay away from <big>big text</big>, unless
<small> it's <big>within</big> small</small> text. |
<nowiki> Better stay away from <big>big text</big>, unless <small> it's <big>within</big> small</small> text. </nowiki> |
| You can <s>strike out deleted material</s> and underline new material. You can also mark <del>deleted material</del> and
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<nowiki> You can <s>strike out deleted material</s> and <u>underline new material</u>. You can also mark <del>deleted material</del> and <ins>inserted material</ins> using logical markup. For backwards compatibility better combine this potentially ignored new <del>logical</del> with the old <s><del>physical</del></s> markup. </nowiki> |
| Suppressing interpretation of markup:
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<nowiki>
<nowiki>Link → (''to'')
the [[Wikipedia FAQ]]</nowiki>
</nowiki> |
| Commenting page source: not shown when viewing page
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<nowiki> <!-- comment here --> </nowiki> |
| <span id="diacritics">Diacritical marks:</span> À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö Ø Ù Ú Û Ü ß à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ñ ò ó ô œ õ ö ø ù ú û ü ÿ
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<nowiki> À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö Ø Ù Ú Û Ü ß à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ñ ò ó ô œ õ ö ø ù ú û ü ÿ </nowiki> |
| Punctuation: ¿ ¡ § ¶ † ‡ • – — ‹ › « » ‘ ’ “ ” |
<nowiki> ¿ ¡ § ¶ † ‡ • – — ‹ › « » ‘ ’ “ ” </nowiki> |
| Commercial symbols: ™ © ® ¢ € ¥ £ ¤ |
<nowiki> ™ © ® ¢ € ¥ £ ¤ </nowiki> |
| Subscripts: x<sub>1</sub> x<sub>2</sub> x<sub>3</sub> or x₀ x₁ x₂ x₃ x₄ x₅ x₆ x₇ x₈ x₉ Superscripts:
ε<sub>0</sub> = |
<nowiki> x<sub>1</sub> x<sub>2</sub> x<sub>3</sub> or <br/> x₀ x₁ x₂ x₃ x₄ <br/> x₅ x₆ x₇ x₈ x₉ </nowiki> <nowiki> x<sup>1</sup> x<sup>2</sup> x<sup>3</sup> or <br/> x⁰ x¹ x² x³ x⁴ <br/> x⁵ x⁶ x⁷ x⁸ x⁹ ε<sub>0</sub> = 8.85 × 10<sup>−12</sup> C² / J m. 1 [[hectare]] = [[1 E4 m²]] </nowiki> |
| Greek characters: α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π ρ σ ς τ υ φ χ ψ ω Γ Δ Θ Λ Ξ Π ; Σ Φ Ψ Ω |
<nowiki> α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π ρ σ ς τ υ φ χ ψ ω Γ Δ Θ Λ Ξ Π Σ Φ Ψ Ω </nowiki> |
| Mathematical characters: ∫ ∑ ∏ √ − ± ∞ ≈ ∝ ≡ ≠ ≤ ≥ × · ÷ ∂ ′ ″ ∇ ‰ ° ∴ ℵ ø ∈ ∉ ∩ ∪ ⊂ ⊃ ⊆ ⊇ ¬ ∧ ∨ ∃ ∀ ⇒ ⇐ ⇓ ⇑ ⇔ → ↓ ↑ ← ↔
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<nowiki> ∫ ∑ ∏ √ − ± ∞ ≈ ∝ ≡ ≠ ≤ ≥ × · ÷ ∂ ′ ″ ∇ ‰ ° ∴ ℵ ø ∈ ∉ ∩ ∪ ⊂ ⊃ ⊆ ⊇ ¬ ∧ ∨ ∃ ∀ ⇒ ⇐ ⇓ ⇑ ⇔ → ↓ ↑ ← ↔ </nowiki> |
| <math>\,\! \sin x + \ln y</math> sinx + lny <!-- no space between roman "sin" and italic "x" --> <math>\mathbf{x} = 0</math> Ordinary text should use wiki markup for emphasis#emph, and should not use |
<nowiki>
<math>\,\! \sin x + \ln y</math>
sin''x'' + ln''y''
<math>\mathbf{x} = 0</math>
'''x''' = 0
</nowiki> |
| Spacing in simple math formulae: Obviously, x² ≥ 0 is true when x is a real number.
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<nowiki> Obviously, ''x''² ≥ 0 is true when ''x'' is a real number. </nowiki> |
Complicated formulae:
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<nowiki>
: <math>\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{x^n}{n!}</math>
</nowiki> |
(see also: Chess symbols in Unicode)
No or limited formatting—showing exactly what is being typed
A few different kinds of formatting will tell the Wiki to display things as you typed them—what you see, is what you get!
| What it looks like | What you type |
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| <nowiki> tag: The nowiki tag ignores [[Wiki]] ''markup''. It reformats text by removing newlines and multiple spaces. It still interprets special characters: → |
<nowiki> <nowiki> The nowiki tag ignores [[Wiki]] ''markup''. It reformats text by removing newlines and multiple spaces. It still interprets special characters: → </nowiki> </nowiki> |
<pre> tag:The pre tag ignores [[Wiki]] ''markup''. It also doesn't reformat text. It still interprets special characters: → |
<pre><nowiki> The pre tag ignores [[Wiki]] ''markup''. It also doesn't reformat text. It still interprets special characters: → </nowiki></pre> |
| Leading space: Leading spaces are another way to preserve formatting. However, it will make the whole page fail to render properly in some browsers, such as IE7, thus making the page unreadable. Putting a space at the beginning of each line |
<nowiki> Leading spaces are another way to preserve formatting. Putting a space at the beginning of each line stops the text from being reformatted. It still interprets [[Wiki]] ''markup'' and special characters: → </nowiki> |
