Help:Syntax

This is a handy guide to the most common bits of Wiki syntax you may want to use.

Basic text formatting markup

Desired Result	Description	Example
Italic Text	Two single quotes on each side	''Italic Text''
Bold Text	Three single quotes on each side	'''Bold Text'''
Bold and Italic	Five single quotes on each side	'''''Bold and Italic'''''
Strikethru	The "strike" tag	<strike>Strikethru</strike>
Preformatted text	The "pre" tag	<pre>Preformatted text</pre>

Headlines and Table of Contents

Note: In order for headline syntax to be parsed, it must be placed at the beginning of a line, with no spaces before it.

To create a headline for a section, start and end the line with a number of equals signs. The number of signs determines the level of the headline.

Level 1 headlines are used for page titles themselves. Please do not use them in pages.

== Main page sections are Level 2 ==

=== Subsections are level 3 ===

==== You can go to level 6 but beyond 4 is pushing it ====

When a page contains four or more headlines, a Table of Contents is automatically generated for it. If you wish to suppress this, put the magic word __NOTOC__ somewhere in the page. (That's two underscores on either side of the letters.)

Lists

Like headlines, the special characters for lists must occur at the beginning of a line, with no spaces. The characters are asterisks for bullets and number/hash/pound signs for numbering. A simple and more complex example are shown below.

Bulleted list item Sub-item Item Item Sub-item Sub-sub-item Item	* Bulleted list item ** Sub-item * Item * Item ** Sub-item *** Sub-sub-item * Item
Numbered list item Bulleted Sub-item Bulleted Sub-item Numbered Item Bulleted Sub-item Numbered Sub-sub-item Numbered Sub-sub-item Item	# Numbered list item #* Bulleted Sub-item #* Bulleted Sub-item # Numbered Item #* Bulleted Sub-item #*# Numbered Sub-sub-item #*# Numbered Sub-sub-item # Item

Links

Type of Link	Description	Example	Syntax
A page inside this wiki, with the link text the same as the page title	Enclose the article title in a double pair of square brackets	... visit Sideling Hill Tunnel for ...	... visit [[Sideling Hill Tunnel]] for ...
A page inside this wiki, with the link text different than the page title	Same as above, but after the article title, put a vertical bar followed by the link text	... at the tunnel, we found ...	... at [[Sideling Hill Tunnel|the tunnel]], we found ...
A page outside this wiki	The full URL in a single pair of square brackets	... site is [1], and it ...	... site is [http://www.google.com/], and it ...
Strikethru	The "strike" tag	<strike>Strikethru</strike>
Preformatted text	The "pre" tag	<pre>Preformatted text</pre>

The <nowiki> tag

If you want to ''demonstrate '''bits''' of wiki syntax '''without''' it actually being processed'', as we just did there, enclose your example in the <nowiki>...</nowiki> tag:

<nowiki>''Demonstrate '''bits''' of wiki syntax '''without''' it actually being processed''</nowiki>