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Adding help content

WikiSysop: Adding help content

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Adding help content

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You can format your text using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in ''italic'', you include it in two single quotes like <tt><nowiki>''this''</nowiki></tt>

== Text formatting markup ==

{| align="center" {{Prettytable}}
|-
|{{Hl2}} |'''Description'''
|{{Hl2}} |'''You type'''
|{{Hl2}} |'''You get'''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" | ''applies anywhere''
|-
|Italic text
|<tt><nowiki>''italic''</nowiki></tt>
|''italic''
|-
| Bold text
|<tt><nowiki>'''bold'''</nowiki></tt>
|'''bold'''
|-
| Bold and italic
|<tt><nowiki>'''''bold & italic'''''</nowiki></tt>
|'''''bold & italic'''''
|-
|Escape wiki markup
|<tt><nowiki><nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki></nowiki></tt>
|<nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki>
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" | ''only at the beginning of the line''
|-
|Headings of 
different sizes <ref>Use of a heading created by single equal signs is discouraged as it appears with the same formatting and size as the page title, which can be confusing.</ref><ref>An article with four or more headings will automatically create a table of contents.</ref>
|
<tt><nowiki>==level 1==</nowiki></tt> 
<tt><nowiki>===level 2===</nowiki></tt> 
<tt><nowiki>====level 3====</nowiki></tt> 
<tt><nowiki>=====level 4=====</nowiki></tt>
|
==Level 1==
===Level 2===
====Level 3====
=====Level 4=====
|-
|Horizontal rule
|
<tt><nowiki>----</nowiki></tt>
|
----
|-
|Bullet list
|
* one 
* two 
* three 
** three and one-third 
** three and two-thirds 
|
* one
* two
* three
** three and one-third
** three and two-thirds
|-
|Numbered list
|
# one 
# two<nowiki> </nowiki>spanning several lines<nowiki> </nowiki>without breaking the numbering 
# three 
## three point one 
## three point two 
|
# one
# two spanning several lines without breaking the numbering
# three
## three point one
## three point two
|-
| Mixture of bulleted and numbered lists
|
# one 
# two 
#* two point one 
#* two point two 
|
# one
# two
#* two point one
#* two point two
|-
|Definition list
|
;Definition 
:item 1 
:item 2 
|
;Definition
:item 1
:item 2
|-
|Preformatted text
|
  preformatted text is done with 
  a space at the 
  beginning of the line 
|
preformatted text is done with
a space at the
beginning of the line
|}

Notes: <references/>

== Paragraphs ==

MediaWiki ignores normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can also start a new line with the HTML tags <tt><nowiki> or </nowiki></tt>.

== HTML ==

Some [[w:HTML|HTML]] tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example <tt><nowiki><code></nowiki></tt>, <tt><nowiki><div></nowiki></tt>, <tt><nowiki></nowiki></tt> and <tt><nowiki></nowiki></tt>.

{{Admin tip|tip=If you trust your users you can allow full HTML by setting <code>[[Manual:$wgRawHtml|$wgRawHtml]] = true;</code> in [[Manual:LocalSettings.php|LocalSettings.php]].}}

== Other formatting ==
Beyond the text formatting markup shown above, here are some other formatting references:
*[[Help:Links|Links]]
*[[Help:Images|Images]]
*[[Help:Tables|Tables]]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_Page_Help/Do-It-Yourself/Formatting_Text#Underlining More Formatting from Wikipedia]
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−	You can format your text using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in ''italic'', you include it in two single quotes like <tt><nowiki>''this''</nowiki></tt>	+	You can format your text using wiki markup (aka ''wikitext''). This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in ''italic'', you include it in two single quotes like <tt><nowiki>''this''</nowiki></tt>
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		+	The below examples serve as an introduction to wikitext. For a more comprehensive introduction, see the [[metawikipedia:Help:Wikitext examples\|examples at meta.wikimedia.org]].

	== Text formatting markup ==		== Text formatting markup ==

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 == HTML ==
-Some [[w:HTML|HTML]] tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example <tt><nowiki><code></nowiki></tt>, <tt><nowiki><div></nowiki></tt>, <tt><nowiki><span></nowiki></tt> and <tt><nowiki><font></nowiki></tt>.
+Some HTML tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example <tt><nowiki><code></nowiki></tt>, <tt><nowiki><div></nowiki></tt>, <tt><nowiki><span></nowiki></tt> and <tt><nowiki><font></nowiki></tt>.
 == Other formatting ==

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	Some [[w:HTML\|HTML]] tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example <tt><nowiki><code></nowiki></tt>, <tt><nowiki><div></nowiki></tt>, <tt><nowiki><span></nowiki></tt> and <tt><nowiki><font></nowiki></tt>.		Some [[w:HTML\|HTML]] tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example <tt><nowiki><code></nowiki></tt>, <tt><nowiki><div></nowiki></tt>, <tt><nowiki><span></nowiki></tt> and <tt><nowiki><font></nowiki></tt>.
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−	~~{{Admin tip\|tip=If you trust your users you can allow full HTML by setting <code>[[Manual:$wgRawHtml\|$wgRawHtml]] = true;</code> in [[Manual:LocalSettings.php\|LocalSettings.php]].}}~~
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	== Other formatting ==		== Other formatting ==

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 *[[Help:Tables|Tables]]
 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_Page_Help/Do-It-Yourself/Formatting_Text#Underlining More Formatting from Wikipedia]
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