Help:Editing

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.