Difference between revisions of "Help:Editing"

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''This page is under construction - please come back later!''
 
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Hello,<ref>Encyclopædia Britannica</ref> World.<ref>http://www.w3.org/</ref>
 
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Revision as of 15:14, 15 August 2012

This page is under construction - please come back later!

Checklist for editing

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) 00:24, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

<center>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]]

Redirect arrow without text.svg Target page

Redirect to a section of another page

#REDIRECT [[Target page#anchorName]]

Redirect arrow without text.svg 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

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

no indent (normal)

first indent
second indent
third indent
<center>Adding footnote references
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==
<references>

Hello,[1] World.[2]

References

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