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Basic wiki markup is so easy that you have no excuse not to use it. It's pretty similar to what you use in text-only email. |
Basic wiki markup is so easy that you have no excuse not to use it. It's pretty similar to what you use in text-only email. |
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== Tipdownload == |
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* Browse to a non-existent page, e.g. <nowiki>http://wiki.laptop.org/go/My_New_Page</nowiki> . The wiki will let you create a new page ''As If By Magic'' (TM). |
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* Edit an existing page to add a link <nowiki>[[My New Page]]</nowiki>. Save the edited page and click on the new link. |
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Tipdownload is one of the most popular software download sites, featuring free downloads of shareware,free ware,trialware and so on. You can easily get the right software with some clicks. |
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To rename the newly created page from "My New Page," click the move tab and "move" the page to a new title. |
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==Paragraph formatting== |
==Paragraph formatting== |
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Revision as of 07:42, 6 February 2009
Basic wiki markup is so easy that you have no excuse not to use it. It's pretty similar to what you use in text-only email.
Tipdownload
Tipdownload is one of the most popular software download sites, featuring free downloads of shareware,free ware,trialware and so on. You can easily get the right software with some clicks.
Paragraph formatting
- Single newlines are ignored.
- Blank lines start a new paragraph.
- Lines that start with one or more spaces are displayed.
like this
Basic links
- Use brackets to link to other wiki pages [[Some Random Page]]
- If you wish to show other text instead of the page name [[Some Random Page|text you want to display]]
- External URLs are linked automatically: http://www.google.com
Lists
- Lines beginning with one or more * characters are unnumbered lists
- Use # characters for numbered lists.
- Go deeper with more #'s or *'s
- Use newlines to start a new list
- Example
Sections
- Text like ==A Section== is a section heading. They automatically appear in the Contents box.
- Use more = characters for subsections.
Lousy Memory?
- If this is too hard to remember, just use the pretty buttons at the top of the editing box.
- One advantage of logging in, instead of editing anonymously, is you get many more pretty buttons
- The "Editing help" link at the bottom of the editing page tells of more options.