Help:Wiki Quicky
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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.
Making a new page
- Browse to a non-existent page, e.g. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/My_New_Page . The wiki will let you create a new page As If By Magic (TM).
or
- Edit an existing page to add a link [[My New Page]]. Save the edited page and click on the new link.
To rename the newly created page from "My New Page," click the move tab and "move" the page to a new title.
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.