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MediaWiki Cheat Sheet

Paragraphs

<code>Two line breaks
will signify
a paragraph.

New paragraph starts
here.

For a linebreak, just
use <br/> the html tag
</code>

Phrase Emphasis

<code>''italics''
'''bold'''
</code>

Links

External:

<code>An [http://url.com/ example].
</code>

Wiki-links:

<code>An [[example]] wikilink, possibly even
from another namespace: [[talk:example]].
Renaming [[hyperlink|links]] is easy.
</code>

Categories: add the page to a category as follows:

<code>[[category:example]]
</code>

Images

Not floated:

<code>[[Image:example.png]]
</code>

Thumbnail, with a caption, floated left, 200 pixels wide:

<code>[[Image:example.png|left|200px|Floating!]]
</code>

Link to the image, but don't show it on the page:

<code>[[:Image:example.png|example.png]]
</code>

Headers

<code>== Header 2 ==

=== Header 3 ===

====== Header 6 ======
</code>

Lists

Ordered:

<code>#  Foo
#  Bar
</code>

Unordered:

<code>* A list item. <br> With a line break.
* Bar
</code>

Definition:

<code>; a term
: some defining
: and more defining
; and another term : definition
</code>

They can be nested:

<code>* Abacus
** answer
* Bubbles
*# bunk
*# bupkis
*#; BELITTLER : one who belittles
*# burper
* Cunning
</code>

Definitions, without the word they are defining, are used to indent talk pages:

<code>Delete this article! [[user:spam]]
: No, it's great! [[user:eggs]]
</code>

Signatures

Comments should be signed:

<code>~~~ is my signature
~~~~ is my signature with datestamp
~~~~~ is just the datestamp
</code>

Use HTML for other formatting

For a monospaced font:

<code>use the <tt>tt</tt> tag.
</code>

To center text:

<code><center>put me in the middle</center>
</code>

For a blockquote:

<code><blockquote>To be or not to be…</blockquote>
</code>

Prevent wiki formatting

<code>Use the <nowiki>'''tag'' to write
'''about''</nowiki> mediawiki code
itself, or suppress rendering for
some other reason.
</code>

Templates

One page can be transcluded in another page by using a template:

<code>{{templates}} go in curly braces
</code>

Horizontal Rules

Four or more dashes:

<code>----
</code>