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| − | MediaWiki '''Formatting''' is the technique of transforming text in articles. For example, making text '''bold''', ''italics'', or '''''bold italics'''''. A comprehensive tutorial follows.
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| − | == Text Formatting ==
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| − | === Simple Text Formatting ===
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| − | ====Bold, Italics====
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| − | The following code will give you '''bold''' text:
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| − | <nowiki>'''BOLD TEXT GOES HERE'''</nowiki>
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| − | As you can see, three apostrophes the text gives you the desired format.
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| − | <br />
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| − | <br />
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| − | The following code will give you ''italic'' text:
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| − | <nowiki>''ITALIC TEXT GOES HERE''</nowiki>
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| − | Here, two apostrophes are required.
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| − | <br />
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| − | <br />
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| − | These two formatting tricks can be combined to make '''''bold italic text''''', like so:
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| − | <nowiki>'''''BOLD AND ITALICS'''''</nowiki>
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| − | ====Headers====
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| − | To create a header, surround the text you wish to make a header with a number of equals signs. <br />
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| − | Here are the six types of headers: <br />
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| − | <nowiki>
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| − | =Header 1=
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| − | ==Header 2==
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| − | ===Header 3===
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| − | ====Header 4====
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| − | =====Header 5=====
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| − | ======Header 6======
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| − | </nowiki>
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| − | Results in:<br />
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| − | =Header 1=
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| − | ==Header 2==
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| − | ===Header 3===
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| − | ====Header 4====
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| − | =====Header 5=====
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| − | ======Header 6======
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| − | If you have more than four headers in a page, a table of contents box listing the headers appears at the top.
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| − | ===More Complex Text Formatting ===
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| − | ====Boxes and Unformatting====
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| − | To achieve a grey box with mono type text like the ones above, simply put a space before the line(s) you wish to place in the box, like so:
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| − | Whee, what fun!
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| − | And an example of multiple lines:
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| − | First.
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| − | Second!
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| − | Third?
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| − | Note that this does not stop any code in the boxes from being parsed. <br />
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| − | i.e.
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| − | '''This text is still bold, though it's in a box'''
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| − | To prevent parsing, you must do this:
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| − | <nowiki><nowiki>NON FORMATTED TEXT AND ANYTHING ELSE HERE</nowiki></nowiki>
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| − | This removes '''all''' wiki formatting from the contained text.
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| − | ====Lists====
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| − | Lists are a group of items that are, as the name implies, ''listed'' one by one on separate lines. There are two types of lists: ordered and unordered.
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| − | =====Ordered Lists=====
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| − | Each item in an ordered list is preceded by it's number in the list. To create an ordered list, simply insert the symbol <nowiki>#</nowiki> before each list item. <br />
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| − | Example:
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| − | <nowiki>
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| − | #This is number 1.
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| − | #Two!
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| − | #Three!
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| − | #Four.
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| − | #Five. Yawn...
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| − | #etc...
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| − | </nowiki>
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| − | Results in:
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| − | #This is number 1.
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| − | #Two!
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| − | #Three!
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| − | #Four.
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| − | #Five. Yawn...
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| − | #etc...
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| − | =====Unordered Lists=====
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| − | Each item in an unordered list is preceded by a small box. To create an unordered list, insert a <nowiki>*</nowiki> before each list item.<br />Example:
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| − | <nowiki>
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| − | *This is unordered.
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| − | *Oh, the chaos!
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| − | *Pretty nice.
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| − | </nowiki>
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| − | Results in:
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| − | *This is unordered.
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| − | *Oh, the chaos!
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| − | *Pretty nice.
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| − | =====Nested Lists=====
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| − | You can also nest both ordered and unordered lists. <br />
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| − | This is how to do it:
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| − | <nowiki>
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| − | *Cool.
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| − | *Yeah.
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| − | **Hey, it's a sub item!
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| − | **This is great.
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| − | ***Yup.
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| − | ****It is.
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| − | ***Really?
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| − | **Of course.
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| − | *Okay.
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| − | #You can do that for numbered lists too.
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| − | #Yup.
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| − | ##It works.
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| − | ##Yay!
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| − | ###w00t!
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| − | #Hurray!
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| − | </nowiki>
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| − | Results in:
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| − | *Cool.
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| − | *Yeah.
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| − | **Hey, it's a sub item!
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| − | **This is great.
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| − | ***Yup.
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| − | ****It is.
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| − | ***Really?
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| − | **Of course.
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| − | *Okay.
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| − | #You can do that for numbered lists too.
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| − | #Yup.
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| − | ##It works.
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| − | ##Yay!
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| − | ###w00t!
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| − | #Hurray!
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| − | There is also a way to nest ordinary text, namely, to place the a colon (<nowiki>:</nowiki>) before the nested text.
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| − | <nowiki>
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| − | Hi.
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| − | :Nest!
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| − | ::Double nest!
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| − | :::Triple nest!
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| − | </nowiki>
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| − | Results in:<br />
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| − | Hi.
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| − | :Nest!
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| − | ::Double nest!
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| − | :::Triple nest!
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| − | ===Links===
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| − | ====Internal Links====
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| − | To turn text into an internal link (i.e. a link to a page within the wiki), you format the text as follows:
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| − | <nowiki>
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| − | [[FULL NAME OF ARTICLE HERE]]
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| − | </nowiki>
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| − | This would link to the article ''FULL NAME OF ARTICLE HERE''.<br />
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| − | To link to an article but display text other than the article name, you format as follows:
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| − | <nowiki>
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| − | [[FULL NAME OF ARTICLE HERE|TEXT TO DISPLAY HERE]]
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| − | </nowiki>
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| − | This results in: <br />
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| − | [[FULL NAME OF ARTICLE HERE|TEXT TO DISPLAY HERE]]<br />
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| − | If a link that you post is colored red, it means the article does not exist yet.
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| − | ====External Links====
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| − | To turn text into an external link (i.e. a link to a page outside the wiki), you format the text as follows:
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| − | <nowiki>
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| − | [URL_OF_PAGE_HERE]
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| − | </nowiki>
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| − | Note that there can not be any spaces in the URL. <br />
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| − | To link to a website but display text other than the website's URL, you format as follows:
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| − | <nowiki>
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| − | [http://URL_OF_PAGE_HERE TEXT TO DISPLAY HERE]
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| − | </nowiki>
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| − | Note the space between the url of the page and the text to display. The above results in:<br />
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| − | [http://URL_OF_PAGE_HERE TEXT TO DISPLAY HERE] <br />
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| − | This concludes our article on basic text formatting. To learn about even more complex text formatting, it is recommended you read the Wikipedia articles.
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