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Quick Editing Overview

Starting a New Page

The easiest way to start a new wiki page is to create an internal link for it on a pre-existing page, then navigate there and start editing. Alternatively you can add a slash '/' and the desired title of the page after 'index.php' in the URL. So if you wanted to create a page called 'My New Page' you would type '/My_new_page' after 'index.php' in the URL.

Basic Wiki Text Formatting

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 Wikipedia)	[[name of page]] [[name of page|display text]]	name of page display text
External link (to other websites)	[http://www.example.com] [http://www.example.com display text] http://www.example.com	[1] display text http://www.example.com
Escape wiki markup	with ''markup'' <nowiki>without ''markup''</nowiki>	with markup without ''markup''
Categories	[[Category:Catagory Name]]	Category link on page.
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	one two two point one three
Definition list	;Definition :item 1 :item 2	Definition item 1 item 2
Thumbnail image	[[Image:Wiki.png|thumb|Caption text]]	File:Wikilogo.gif Caption text

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