• 1 Editing basics
  • 1.1 Basic text formatting
  • 1.2 Organizing your writing
  • 1.3 Links
  • 1.4 Just show what I typed
  • 1.5 Images, tables, video, and sounds
  • 1.6 Templates
• 2 Minor edits
• 3 See also

You can ''italicize text'' by putting 2 
apostrophes on each side. 

3 apostrophes will bold '''the text'''. 

5 apostrophes will bold and italicize 
'''''the text'''''.

(4 apostrophes don't do anything special -- there's just ''''one left over''''.)

A single newline
has no effect
on the layout.
But an empty line

starts a new paragraph.

You can break lines<br />
without a new paragraph.<br />
Please use this sparingly.

You should "sign" your comments 
on talk pages: <br />
- Three tildes gives your user
name: ~~~ <br />
- Four tildes give your user 
name plus date/time: ~~~~ <br />
- Five tildes gives the 
date/time alone: ~~~~~ <br />

You can use <b>HTML tags</b>,
too, if you want. Some useful
ways to use HTML:

Put text in a <tt>typewriter
font</tt>. The same font is 
generally used for <code>
computer code</code>.

<strike>Strike out</strike>
or <u>underline</u> text,
or write it <span style=
"font-variant:small-caps">
in small caps</span>.

Superscripts and subscripts:
X<sup>2</sup>, H<sub>2</sub>O

Invisible comments to editors ( <!-- --> ) 
only appear while editing the page.
<!-- Note to editors: blah blah blah. -->

If you wish to make comments to the public, 
you should usually go on the talk page, though.

== Section headings ==

''Headings'' organize your writing into sections.
The Wiki software can automatically generate
a table of contents from them.

=== Subsection ===

Using more equals signs creates a subsection.

==== A smaller subsection ====

Don't skip levels, 
like from two to four equals signs.

Start with 2 equals signs not 1 
because 1 creates H1 tags
which should be reserved for page title.

• Unordered lists are easy to do:
  • Start every line with a star.
    • More stars indicate a deeper level.

  Previous item continues.

  • A newline
• in a list

• Of course you can start again.

* ''Unordered lists'' are easy to do:
** Start every line with a star.
*** More stars indicate a deeper level.
*: Previous item continues.
** A newline
* in a list  
marks the end of the list.
* Of course you can start again.

1. Numbered lists are:
   1. Very organized
   2. Easy to follow

1. New numbering starts with 1.

# ''Numbered lists'' are also good:
## Very organized
## Easy to follow
A newline marks the end of the list.
# New numbering starts with 1.

Word

Definition of the word

Here is a longer phrase that needs a definition

Phrase defined

A word

Which has a definition

Also a second one

And even a third

Another kind of list is a ''definition list'':
; Word : Definition of the word
; Here is a longer phrase that needs a definition
: Phrase defined
; A word : Which has a definition
: Also a second one
: And even a third

• You can even do mixed lists
  1. and nest them
  2. inside each other
     • or break lines
       in lists.

     definition lists

     can be

     nested too

* You can even do mixed lists
*# and nest them
*# inside each other
*#* or break lines<br />in lists.
*#; definition lists
*#: can be 
*#;; nested too

A colon (:) indents a line or paragraph.

We use 1 colon to indent once.

We use 2 colons to indent twice.

We use 3 colons to indent 3 times, and so on.

: A colon (:) indents a line or paragraph.
A newline after that starts a new paragraph. <br />
This is often used for discussion on talk pages.
: We use 1 colon to indent once.
:: We use 2 colons to indent twice.
::: We use 3 colons to indent 3 times, and so on.

You can make horizontal dividing lines (----)
to separate text.

----
But you should usually use sections instead,
so that they go in the table of contents.

There are over six billion people in the world.^[1]

1. ¹ CIA World Factbook
For details, see Wikipedia:Footnotes and Help:Footnotes.

You can add footnotes to sentences using the ''ref'' tag -- this
is especially good for citing a source.

:There are over six billion people in the world.<ref>CIA World Factbook</ref>

References: <references/>

For details, see [[Wikipedia:Footnotes]] and [[Help:Footnotes]].

Here's a link to a page named [[Official position]].
You can even say [[official position]]s
and the link will show up correctly.

You can put formatting around a link.
Example: ''[[Wikipedia]]''.

The ''first letter'' of articles is automatically
capitalized, so [[wikipedia]] goes to the same place
as [[Wikipedia]]. Capitalization matters after the
first letter.

[[The weather in Moscow]] is a page that doesn't exist
yet. You could create it by clicking on the link.

• List of cities by country#Morocco.

You can link to a page section by its title:

*[[List of cities by country#Morocco]].

If multiple sections have the same title, add
a number. [[#Example section 3]] goes to the
third section named "Example section".

• About Links
• [[List of cities by country#Morocco|

You can make a link point to a different place
with a [[Help:Piped link|piped link]]. Put the link
target first, then the pipe character "|", then
the link text.

*[[Help:Link|About Links]]
*[[List of cities by country#Morocco|
Cities in Morocco]]

You can make an external link just by typing a URL:
http://www.nupedia.com

You can give it a title:
[http://www.nupedia.com Nupedia]

Or leave the title blank:
[http://www.nupedia.com]

Linking to an e-mail address works the same way:
mailto:someone@domain.com or 
[mailto:someone@domain.com someone]

#REDIRECT [[Official position]]

• July 20, 1969
• 20 July 1969
• 1969-07-20

The Wiki reformats linked dates to match the reader's
date preferences. These three dates will show up the
same if you choose a format in your
[[Special:Preferences|]]:
* [[July 20]], [[1969]]
* [[20 July]] [[1969]]
* [[1969]]-[[07-20]]

<nowiki>
The nowiki tag ignores [[Wiki]] ''markup''.
It reformats text by removing
newlines    and multiple spaces.
It still interprets special
characters: &rarr;
</nowiki>

The pre tag ignores [[Wiki]] ''markup''.
It also doesn't     reformat text.
It still interprets special characters: →

<pre>
The pre tag ignores [[Wiki]] ''markup''.
It also doesn't     reformat text.
It still interprets special characters: &rarr;
</pre>

Putting a space at the beginning of each
line stops the text   from being reformatted.
It still interprets [[Wiki]] ''markup'' and
special characters: →

Leading spaces are another way to preserve formatting.

 Putting a space at the beginning of each
 line stops the text   from being reformatted.
 It still interprets [[Wiki]] ''markup'' and
 special characters: →

A picture, including alternate text:

[[Image:collaboration w text.gif|The logo for this Wiki]]

You can put the image in a frame with a caption:
[[Image:collaboration w text.gif|frame|The logo for this Wiki]]

A link to the page for the image:
[[:Image:collaboration w text.gif]]

Use '''media:''' links to link directly to sounds
or videos: [[media:Sg_mrob.ogg|A sound file]]

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