Help:Wiki Quicky

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Basic wiki markup is so easy that you have no excuse not to use it.

Making a new page

  • Browse to a non-existent page, e.g. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/My_New_Page

or

  • Edit an existing page to add a link [[My New Page]]. Save the edited page and click on the new link.

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

  • Links to other wiki pages look like [[Some Random Page]]
  • 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.

Sections

  • Text like ==A Section== is a section heading.
  • Use more = characters for subsections. ==Lousy Memory?== * If you can't remember this markup, just use the buttons at the top of the editing box. * The "Editing help" link at the bottom of the editing page tells of more options.