MediaWiki Markup

This page forms a quick reference for editing. It is based of the more detailed version at Wikipedia.

Text Formatting

When making a website, you can format the contents of that page using HTML tags. A tag consists of two parts; the start and the end. Different tags have different effects on text. An example of a HTML tag is <b>your text</b>, which appears as your text. Wiki markup uses tags, but not neccessarily the same ones as HTML. For example, although <b>your text</b> is HTML code, it will still produce your text if you put it into a Wiki page. Below is a general outline of the Wiki syntax; some code uses the HTML tag structure.

Format & Appearance	Code	Additional notes
Bold	'''text'''
Italics	''text''	Use for variable names
Underline	<ins>text</ins>
Strikethrough	<del>text</del>	Use this when removing something you said in a discussion, without removing it entirely
Indent	:text	Use this when replying to someone's message on a Wiki Discussion page
Unordered List	*text	Use **multiple asterisks to change the level of the list
Ordered List	#text	Use ##multiple hash symbols to change the level of the list
Code	<code>text</code>
Syntax highlighted text	<syntaxhighlight lang="text">text</syntaxhighlight>	Other languages you might want to use are edl, html4strict, html5, c, and cpp. All supported languages can be found here.

Hyperlinks

Link Type	Code	Preview
Link to page on wiki	[[Main Page]]	Main Page
Link to page on wiki (renamed)	[[Main Page|Home]]	Home
Link to external page (with external page icon)	[http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]	Wikipedia
Link to external page (without external page icon)	<span class="plainlinks">[http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]</span>	Wikipedia
Link to non-existing page on wiki	[[NONEXISTINGPAGE]]	NONEXISTINGPAGE

See here for more link types.

Tables

{| border="1" class="wikitable"
|+ Heading
! Column
! Column
! Column
|-
! Row
| Example || Example
|-
! Row
| Example
| Example
|}

Produces:

Heading

Column	Column	Column
Row	Example	Example
Row	Example	Example

Similarly,

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Heading
! Column !! Column !! Column
|-
| Row || Example || Example
|-
| Row || Example || Example
|-
| Row || Example || Example
|}

Produces:

Heading

Column	Column	Column
Row	Example	Example
Row	Example	Example
Row	Example	Example

See here for more information about tables.

See Also

• Article maintenance
• Contribution Guidelines