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MediaWiki syntax

Description You type You get
Applies anywhere
Italicise text

''italic''

italic

Bold text

'''bold'''

bold

Bold and italic

'''''bold & italic'''''

bold & italic

Internal link

(within the wiki)

[[name of page]]
[[name of page|display text]]

name of page
display text

Link to section in another page

[[Another page#Some heading]]
[[Another page#Some heading | Display text]]

Another page#Some heading
Display text

Link to a section in this page

[[#Some heading]]
[[#Some heading | Display text]]

#Some heading
Display text

Redirect to another page

#redirect [[Target page]]

Going to that page automatically bounces you to the specified other page.

External link

(to other websites)

[http://www.example.org]
[http://www.example.org display text]
http://www.example.org

[1]
display text
http://www.example.org

Applies only at the beginning of the line
Headings

of different sizes

==level 1==
===level 2===
====level 3====
=====level 4=====

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4
Bullet list

* one
* two
** two point one
* three

  • one
  • two
    • two point one
  • three
Numbered list

# one
# two
## two point one
# three

  1. one
  2. two
    1. two point one
  3. three
 
Thumbnail image

[[Image:Wiki.png|thumb|Caption text]]

File:Wiki.png
Caption text

Indented text

If you start a line with a colon (:), it is indented. Two colons mean double-indented.

e.g. a line like this:

: Hello world.

Gives you text like this:

Hello world.

Key-value lists

This:

 ; Chestnut: The most common colour of horse.
 ; Dapple grey: Another colour for horses.

Gives you this:

Chestnut
The most common colour of horse.
Dapple grey
Another colour for horses.

Tables

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Table

Basic table

Here is a table:

Fruit Colour
Banana Yellow
Apple Green
Tomato Red

And here is the code for it:

{| border="1" cellpadding="4"
| '''Fruit''' || '''Colour'''
|-
| '''Banana''' || Yellow
|-
| '''Apple''' || Green
|-
| '''Tomato''' || Red
|}

Alternative syntax for basic table

Or alternatively, you can do it like this (each cell on its own line):

{| border="1" cellpadding="4"
| '''Fruit''' 
| '''Colour'''
|-
| '''Banana''' 
| Yellow
|-
| '''Apple''' 
| Green
|-
| '''Tomato''' 
| Red
|}

Colspans

You can do things like colspan:

Fruits
Banana Yellow
Apple Green
Tomato Red

Here's the code for it:

{| border="1" cellpadding="4"
| colspan="3" align="center" | '''Fruits'''
|-
| '''Banana''' || Yellow
|-
| '''Apple''' || Green
|-
| '''Tomato''' || Red
|}

Cell colors

Fruit Colour
Banana Yellow
Apple Green
Tomato Red

And here is the code for it:

{| border="1" cellpadding="4"
| '''Fruit''' || '''Colour'''
|-
| '''Banana''' || style="background: #ffff00;" | Yellow
|-
| '''Apple''' || style="background: #00FF00;" | Green
|-
| '''Tomato''' || style="background: red;" | Red
|}

Sortable table

When a list of entries is included in a table on a page, you can use JavaScript to make the table 'sortable' (it is not possible to force a table to be sorted by a default order on page load). To do this, add the "sortable" class to the table declaration and make sure you defined headers using exclamations marks:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Fruit   !! Price
|-
| Apples  || £0.95
|-
| Oranges || £0.85
|-
| Pears   || £1.15
|-
| Purple mangosteen || £1.05
|}

Which produces the following output:

Fruit Price
Apples £0.95
Oranges £0.85
Pears £1.15
Purple mangosteen £1.05

By clicking on the buttons in the cell headers, the entries can be sorted by the value in that column, in either ascending or descending order.