Wikipedia Cheatsheet |
| Description | You type | You get |
| Italic text | ''italic'' | italic |
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| Bold text | '''bold''' | bold |
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| Bold and italic | '''''bold & italic''''' | bold & italic |
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Internal link
(within Wikipedia) | [[Name of page]]
[[Name of page|Text to display]] | Name of page
Text to display |
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External link
(to other websites) | [http://www.example.org Text to display]
[http://www.example.org]
http://www.example.org | Text to display
[1]
http://www.example.org |
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| Redirect to another page | #REDIRECT [[Target page]] |  Target page
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| Footnotes/References Numbering is generated automatically. | To create a footnote or reference, use this format: Article text.<ref name="test">[http://www.example.org Link text], additional text.</ref> | Article text.[1] |
| To reuse the same note, reuse the name with a trailing slash: Article text.<ref name="test" /> |
| To display notes, add either of these lines to the References section: <references/>
{{Reflist}} |
- ^ Link text, additional text.
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Section headings[1]
A Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article. | == Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
(Level 1 is used only for a page's title, and is generated automatically.) | Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6 |
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| Bulleted list[1] Empty lines between list items discouraged (see numbered lists). | * One
* Two
** Two point one
* Three | |
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| Numbered list[1] Empty lines between list items restarts numbering at 1. | # One
# Two
## Two point one
# Three
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- Two
- Two point one
- Three
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| Indenting text[1] | no indent (normal)
:first indent
::second indent
:::third indent | no indent (normal)
- first indent
- second indent
- third indent
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| Image | [[File:Wiki.png|thumb|alt=Alt text|Caption]] | |
| For Talk Pages |
| Signature | ~~~~ | Username (talk) 04:40, 28 November 2009 (UTC) |
- ^ a b c d Applies only at the very beginning of lines.
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