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 ”this”
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Text formatting markup [ edit ]
Description
You type
You get
character formatting – applies anywhere
Italic text
italic
Bold text
bold
Bold and italic
bold & italic
Escape wiki markup
no ”markup”
section formatting – only at the beginning of the line
Headings of different levels
An article with four or more headings will automatically create a table of contents.
Use of a level 1 heading is highly discouraged as it appears with the same formatting and size as the page title, which can be confusing.
Horizontal rule
Bullet list
Inserting a blank line will end the first list and start another.
one
two
three
three point one
three point two
Numbered list
one
two spanning several lines without breaking the numbering
This adoption may be controversial from the viewpoint of accessibility.
Single indent Double indent Multiple indent
Mixture of different types of list
The usage of #: and *: for breaking a line within an item may also be controversial.
one
two
two point one
two point two
three three item one three def one
four four def one this rather looks like the continuation of # four and thus often used instead of
five
five sub 1
five sub 1 sub 1
five sub 2
item 1
definition 1-1
definition 1-2
item 2
definition 2-1
definition 2-2
Preformatted text
This way of preformatting only applies to section formatting, and character formatting markups are still effective.
Paragraphs [ edit ]
MediaWiki ignores normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can force a line break within a paragraph with the HTML tags .
HTML [ edit ]
Some HTML tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example ,
Description
You type
You get
Fixed width text
Fixed width text
Blockquotes
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
quote quote quote quote quote quote
text text text text text text text text text text text text
Comment
Completely preformatted text
Other formatting [ edit ]
Beyond the text formatting markup shown above, here are some other formatting references:
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