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MediaWiki Cheat Sheet

Paragraphs

Just type like you normally would. Two line breaks for a...

...paragraph. One line break for...
the next line.

You can also use an HTML <br/> tag

Phrase Emphasis

''italics''
'''bold'''

Links

External:

An [http://url.com/ example].

Wiki-links:

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

Categories: add the page to a category as follows:

[[category:example]]

Images

Not floated:

[[Image:example.png]]

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

[[Image:example.png|left|200px|Floating!]]

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

[[:Image:example.png|example.png]]

Headers

== Header 2 ==

=== Header 3 ===

====== Header 6 ======

Lists

Ordered:

#  Foo
#  Bar

Unordered:

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

Definition:

; a term
: some defining
: and more defining
; and another term : definition

They can be nested:

* Abacus
** answer
* Bubbles
*# bunk
*# bupkis
*#; BELITTLER : one who belittles
*# burper
* Cunning

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

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

Signatures

Comments should be signed:

~~~ is my signature
~~~~ is my signature with datestamp
~~~~~ is just the datestamp

Use HTML for other formatting

For a monospaced font:

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

To center text:

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

For a blockquote:

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

Prevent wiki formatting

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

Templates

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

{{templates}} go in curly braces

Horizontal Rules

Four or more dashes:

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