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Formatting Reference Page

For a more exhaustive presentation, see: PESWiki:How to edit a page

(This is Sterling's at-a-glance code page.)

Formatting

= Section Heading =
== Subsection Heading ==

See also Help:Headers

*bullet
**sub bullet

#numbered list
##subnumbered list

---- horizonal line

: indent (colon + space)

; Definition list : list of definitions

Begin line with space to be formatted 
inside a light purple box.
Don't forget to manually carriage return

line break<br>

  (extra space)
→ (right arrow)

{{quotation|"I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device."|Nikola Tesla; ''Brooklyn Eagle'', July 10th, 1931.}}

Emphasis

''bold'''
<b>bold</b>

''italics''
<em>italics</em>

'''''bold italics'''''
<b><em>bold italics</b></em> <nowiki><strike>strike out</strike>

<u>underline</u>

<font size="4">text</font> (3 = normal; 1-7)

<small>small text</small>

_subscript
^superscript

<center>Center text</center>

<tt>monospace text</tt>

Linking

[[link within wiki]] (will display "link within wiki") (refers to a file name)
[[link|hyperlinked text]] (will display "hyperlinked text")
[[#section link]] (within page)
http://website.com (will automatically hyperlink)
[http://externalsite.com text to display] (space after url)
[http://url.com] (numbered footnote)

Redirects

#REDIRECT [[Main_Page]] (first line of page)

Image Click

{{#Click:Target|Image:Example.png|90px|Caption is here.}}

Width (90px) and caption are optional. Target may be an internal or external link, but internal links take precedence. [1]

Date Insert

{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}, {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}}, {{CURRENTYEAR}}; {{CURRENTTIME}} GMT

Images

[[Image:Wiki.png]] (will show image)
[[Image:Wiki.png|alt text]]
[[Image:Wiki.png|frame|right|Caption Text]] (float right)
[[Image:Wiki.png|right|]] (no caption)
[[:Image:Wiki.png]] (link to image)
[[:Image:Wiki.png|text displayed]] (link to image)

Tables

Can use regular HTML or XHTML or Wiki-pipe
see: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table

Method 1

  {|  border=1
  | 1 || 2 
  |- 
  | 3 || 4 
  |- 
  | 5 || 6 
  |}

Method 2

For a column with just one row.

(remove line spaces) {{Col-begin}}
{{col-break}}
Column 1 contents
{{col-break}}
Column 2 contents
{{col-end}}

Other

<nowiki>disable format</nowiki>

__NOTOC__ (forces auto table of contents to disappear)
{{TOCright}} - moves table of contents right

<!-- comment not displayed in page, only in edit view -->

[[Special:Contributions/UserName]]

{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}
{{PAGENAME}}
{{localurl:pagename}}
{{US patent|3048777}}

Characters

See Wikipedia: How to edit a page > Character formatting for the following abilities:

• Special Punctuation
• Commercial symbols
• Umlauts and accents
• Greek characters
• Math characters
• Complicated formulas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TeX_markup

See also

• PESWiki:How to edit a page

- Help Main Index
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