Wiki Formatting Crashcourse.

[badpazzword]

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This is plain text.
This text continues on the same line.

Now I'm on another line.

I can also use HTML tags to manually break lines.<br>Like this.

''This is italic''.
'''This is bold'''.
'''''This is bold italic'''''.
'''This is bold and ''this is italic too'''''

== This is h2 header ==
=== This is h3 subheader ===
==== This is h4 subheader ====
===== This is h5 subheader =====

<b>You can use HTML too, but it isn't as cool or clear or easy</b>
<h4>HTML headers, for example, don't work properly</h4>
<div align="center">Sometimes though you have to use it to get advanced formatting.</div>

This is a link to [[Main Page]] that will read just like the title page.
This is a link to [[Main Page|the homepage]] which will read "the homepage" instead of the page name, "Main page".
This is a link to [http://some.website.addy an external website].

You use [[Category:Foo]] to add a page to a category. You create a link to that category with [[:Category:Foo]] instead.
You insert {{Foo}} to place the Foo template into a page.

* This is a bulletted list
* It goes on
* Like tihis
** And this is a nested list
** Just like this
* And now I'm back on main list.

# Wow, look, numebered lists.
# Wiki takes the trouble of numbering it.

# But don't place whitelines, or the list restarts
# You can nest those lists too:
## Like this.
## You can even mix types:
##* This is a bulletted list into a numbered list.
##* Just remember not to place whitelines or it'll all break.

:This is left indentation.
:You can mix it up too.
:* Like this,
*#: or like this.

Output of the above.

[Raveen]

Awesome, very very helpfull. Thanks.

[madpeople]

QUOTE 'This is italic''.
'''This is bold'''.
'''''This is bold italic'''''.
'''This is bold and ''this is italic too'''''[/quote]
hmm, looks slightly painful...

is there meant to only be one ' for the first italic one (bolded), or should there be two?

[badpazzword]

It's somewhat stupid to think the ' character should have any more meaning than the one it has in English. /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

So yes, it's two of them for italic and three of them for bold.

I'll reiterate: you can use HTML tags, but you don't want to.

[madpeople]

so the line

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'This is italic''.

in your guide should be

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''This is italic''.

oh, and if we use the ==headding== will it automatically make a link in the topic contents box thingy that takes you to that part of the page?

[badpazzword]

It does. /ninja.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":ninja:" border="0" alt="ninja.gif" />

Yes, the TOC is automatically mantained (as you can see in the output page).

[Raveen]

Do we have to do anything to switch the ToC on? It seems to only appear when a certain number of headings are set in the topic. Any way to get it to appear when there are fewer headings? See the squad pages for details.

[juckto]

Don't know. Someone mentioned that __NOTOC__ at the head of the page will turn it off though.

[TheBored]

4 headings or more will activate the TOC. Adding __NOTOC__ will force it to not show. Placing __TOC__ anywhere in the document will place a TOC there, regardless of __NOTOC__ tags.

TB

[badpazzword]

This setting can be tweaked by the Wiki admin.

On an unrelated note, you may want to add a logo.