Help:Contents

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.

Format text

Headings

To make headings:

This markup	produces
= Header =	Header
== Sub-Header ==	Sub-Header
=== Sub-sub-Header ===	Sub-sub-Header

Font Face

To make bold or italic font:

This markup	produces
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:

This markup	produces
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
Have a look at our [[:Category:Guides]] section.	Have a look at our Category:Guides section.

External link:

This markup	produces
[http://www.example.org link name]	link name

See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Link

Including text

You include the article foo using the syntax

{{foo}}

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Transclusion

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
field1	field2	field3
ZZZ	AAA	MMM

See also

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting