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Wikipedia Cheatsheet

Works anywhere in the text        
Description You type You get
Italic text

''italic''

italic

Bold text

'''bold'''

bold

Bold and italic text

'''''bold & italic'''''

bold & italic

Link to another page on this Wiki

[[Name of page]]
[[Name of page|Text to display]]

Name of page
Text to display

Link internal heading

[[#Heading name]]
[[#Heading name2|Name2]]

#Heading name
Name2

Show an image

[[File:Wiki.png|thumb|alt=text|Caption]]

text
Caption
Size an image

[[File:Wiki.png|thumb|60px|alt=text|Cap]]

(option "60px" means 60 pixels wide)

Alt text
Cap
Add a page to a category [[Category:Category name]]

(place near the bottom of a page)
Shows "Category name" in a bar at bottom when the page is previewed or saved.
Signature
Sign your contributions when posting to a Talk Page.

~~~~

(Do not sign in an article, only on talk-pages.)

Username (talk) 16:01, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

Using Templates              
Description You type You get
Works only at the beginning of lines    
Description You type You get
Redirect to another page
Redirects must be placed at the start of the first line.

#REDIRECT [[Target page]]

Target page

Redirect to a section of another page

#REDIRECT [[Target page#anchorName]]

Target page#anchorName

Section headings
A Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article.

==Level 2==
===Level 3===
====Level 4====
=====Level 5=====
======Level 6======

(Do not use  =Level 1=  as it is for page titles)

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4

Level 5
Level 6
Nonindexed headers
(left out of Table of Contents)

; Header name

(has a leading semicolon ";" in front)

Header name

(will not appear in Table of Contents)
Bulleted list

* One
* Two
** Two point one
* Three

  • One
  • Two
    • Two point one
  • Three
Numbered list

# One
# Two
## Two point one
# Three

  1. One
  2. Two
    1. Two point one
  3. Three
Indenting text
This is used when replying on a talk page, to make it easier to follow conversations.

no indent (normal)
:first indent
::second indent
:::third indent

no indent (normal)

first indent
second indent
third indent
Adding footnote references    

Cheatsheet for citing a website or publication

Insert footnotes as references in a page to list at page bottom
 

Hello,<ref>Encyclopædia Britannica</ref> World.<ref>http://www.w3.org/</ref>

References: {{reflist}}

Hello,[1] World.[2]

References:

<references>

See also

File:Wiki markup cheatsheet EN.pdf


  1. Encyclopædia Britannica
  2. http://www.w3.org/