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You can format your text using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in italic, you include it in two single quotes like ''this''
Text formatting markup
| Description | You type | You get |
| applies anywhere |
| Italic text
| ''italic'' | italic |
| Bold text
| '''bold''' | bold |
| Bold and italic
| '''''bold & italic''''' | bold & italic |
| Escape wiki markup
| <nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki> | no ''markup''
|
| 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 |
| Horizontal rule
| ---- |
|
| Bullet list
| * one
* two
* three
** three and one-third
** three and two-thirds
| - one
- two
- three
- three and one-third
- three and two-thirds
|
| Numbered list
| # one
# two
# three
## three point one
## three point two
| - one
- two
- three
- three point one
- three point two
|
Mixture of bulleted
and numbered lists
| # one
# two
#* two point one
#* two point two
| - one
- two
- two point one
- two point two
|
| Definition list
| ;Definition
:item 1
:item 2
| - Definition
- item 1
- item 2
|
| Preformatted text
| preformatted text is done with
a space at the
beginning of the line
| preformatted text is done with
a space at the
beginning of the line
|
Paragraphs
The Mediawiki software ignores normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can also start a newline with the HTML tag <br />.
HTML
Some HTML-Tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example <code>, <div>, <span> and <font>.
More advanced formatting
Beyond the basic text formatting markup shown above, there are some more advanced formatting tricks:
