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Note that Wikipedia has a lot of formatting extensions installed that we don't have (or need). | Note that Wikipedia has a lot of formatting extensions installed that we don't have (or need). | ||
==Summary== | |||
(<nowiki><nowiki></nowiki> tags have been applied to the text below so that wiki markup appears literally.) | |||
*<nowiki>Links to other pages on the same wiki are formatted [[page title]]; if you have plurals something like [[gamevar]]s shows up neatly formatted; the pipe '|' character can be used to change the displayed text (the example from the first paragraph: [[palette (environment)|palette swaps]])</nowiki> | |||
*<nowiki>URLs can have custom text in the format [http://www.url.com link title]</nowiki> | |||
*<nowiki>[[Wikipedia:article]] will link to a Wikipedia article</nowiki> | |||
*<nowiki>Script files and code can be formatted by putting a blank space before each line. If you have an empty line in the code, add a space to it too, or the code blocks will appear separate. Some examples use the <pre></pre> tags but I discourage this because it disables wiki formatting within the code.</nowiki> | |||
*<nowiki>Unordered lists, useful for sets of links, can be made by prepending each line with an asterisk '*'. (Ordered lists use '#'.) Multiple list symbols can be used for sublevels and they can be mixed and matched.</nowiki> | |||
*<nowiki>Article text is most readable when it is simply left in paragraphs in the body of the article.</nowiki> | |||
*<nowiki>In most cases the "----" can be better served by a level two ==section heading==, and it is always made redundant by one right below it.</nowiki> | |||
Revision as of 18:20, 15 January 2013
- Wikipedia:Help:Editing
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Cheatsheet
- Wikipedia:Help:Wiki markup
- MediaWiki:Help:Formatting
Note that Wikipedia has a lot of formatting extensions installed that we don't have (or need).
Summary
(<nowiki> tags have been applied to the text below so that wiki markup appears literally.)
- Links to other pages on the same wiki are formatted [[page title]]; if you have plurals something like [[gamevar]]s shows up neatly formatted; the pipe '|' character can be used to change the displayed text (the example from the first paragraph: [[palette (environment)|palette swaps]])
- URLs can have custom text in the format [http://www.url.com link title]
- [[Wikipedia:article]] will link to a Wikipedia article
- Script files and code can be formatted by putting a blank space before each line. If you have an empty line in the code, add a space to it too, or the code blocks will appear separate. Some examples use the <pre></pre> tags but I discourage this because it disables wiki formatting within the code.
- Unordered lists, useful for sets of links, can be made by prepending each line with an asterisk '*'. (Ordered lists use '#'.) Multiple list symbols can be used for sublevels and they can be mixed and matched.
- Article text is most readable when it is simply left in paragraphs in the body of the article.
- In most cases the "----" can be better served by a level two ==section heading==, and it is always made redundant by one right below it.