Help:Editing
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This is a wiki. This means, depending on your priviledges, you can edit articles. You can use a special syntax to format text, include links and so on.
Contents
Format text
Headings
To make headings:
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= Header = |
Header |
== Sub-Header == |
Sub-Header |
=== Sub-sub-Header === |
Sub-sub-Header |
Font Face
To make bold or italic font:
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This is ''italic'' and this is '''bold'''. | This is italic and this is bold. |
Code
To make clear text is meant as code or computer in/output just prepend a space at the beginning of the line:
<- here is a space at the beginning of the line.
Creating links
To link to another article in this wiki:
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Have a look at our [[application]] section. | Have a look at our applications section. |
To link to another namespace, e.g. a category:
This markup | produces |
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Have a look at our [[:Category:Guides]] section. | Have a look at our Category:Guides section. |
Magic words
Magic words are for example
__TOC__
to insert the table of content. And
{{DISPLAYTITLE:title}}
to change the title that is displayed. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words
Creating tables
Make a sortable table. This input:
{| class="wikitable sortable" border=1 ! col1 !! col2 !! col3 |- | field1 || field2 || field3 |- | ZZZ || AAA || MMM |- |}
Produces:
col1 | col2 | col3 |
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field1 | field2 | field3 |
ZZZ | AAA | MMM |