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== The wiki markup ==In the left column of the table below, you can see what effects are possible. In the right column, you can see how those effects were achieved. In other words, to make text look like it looks in the left column, type it in the format you see in the right column.

In the left column of the table below, you can see what effects are possible. In the right column, you can see how those effects were achieved. In other words, to make text look like it looks in the left column, type it in the format you see in the right column.  You may want to keep this page open in a separate browser window for reference. If you want to try out things without danger of doing any harm, you can do so in the [[Sandbox]].

! What it looks like

| <pre>== New section ==

</pre>

| <pre>A single

starts a new paragraph.</pre>

| You can break lines<br> without starting a new paragraph.Sufficient as wikitext code is &lt;br&gt;, the XHTML code &lt;br /&gt; is not needed, the system produces this code.

without starting a new paragraph.</pre>

</pre>

</pre>

*#* like this&lt;br&gt;or have newlines&lt;br&gt;inside lists</pre>

**break lines&lt;br&gt;inside lists&lt;br&gt;like this</pre>

;Definition list&nbsp;

;item&nbsp;

; item&nbsp;: the item's definition</pre>

</pre>

| <pre>&lt;center&gt;Centered text.&lt;/center&gt;</pre>

and below. </pre>

Summarizing the effect of a single newline: no effect in general, but it ends a list item or indented part; thus changing some text into a list item, or indenting it, is more cumbersome if it contains newlines, they have to be removed; see also [[W:Wikipedia:Don't use line breaks]].

=== Links, URLs ===

<table border{| cellspacing="10" cellpadding="2" cellspacingborder="01"><tr>|-<th>! What it looks like</th><th>! What you type</th></tr><tr |- valign="top"><td>| Sue is reading the [[video Video policy]].*First letter of target is automatically capitalized.

Thus the [[Link]] above is to <nowiki>http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_policy</nowiki>, which is the page with the name "Video policy".  | <pre>Sue is reading the [[video policy]].</pre> |-| Link to a section on a page, e.g. [[List of cities by country#Morocco]]; when section editing does not work the link is treated as link to the page, i.e. to the top; this applies for:  *links to non-existent sections *links in redirects *interwiki links | <pre>[[List_of_cities_by_country#Morocco]].</pre>|- valign="top"| Link target and link label are different: [[User:Larry Sanger|answers]]. (This is called a [[piped Piped link]]).</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>Same target, different name:[[User:Larry Sanger|answers]]</nowiki></pre></td></tr><tr |- valign="top"><td>| Endings are blended into the link: [[official Official position]]s, [[geneGene]]s</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>Endings are blendedinto the link: [[official position]]s, [[gene]]s</nowiki></pre></td></tr><tr |- valign="top"><td>| Automatically hide stuff in parentheses: [[kingdom Kingdom (biology)|kingdom]].<p>Automatically hide namespace: [[Wikipedia:Village pump|Village pump]].</p><p>The server fills in the part after the | &#124; when you save the page. Next time you open the edit box you will see the expanded piped link. A preview interprets the abbreviated form correctly, but does not expand it yet in the edit box. Press Save and again Edit, and you will see the expanded version. The same applies for the following feature.</p></td><td>| <pre><nowiki>Automatically hide stuff in parentheses:[[kingdom (biology)|]]. </nowiki></pre><pre><nowiki>Automatically hide namespace:[[Wikipedia:Village pump|]].</nowiki></pre></td></tr>|-<tr><td>| When adding a comment to a Talk page,you should sign it. You can do this byadding three tildes for your user name: : [[User:Karl Wick|Karl Wick]] or four for user name plus date/time: : [[User:Karl Wick|Karl Wick]] 08:10 Oct 5, 2002 (UTC)</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>When adding a comment to a Talk page,

: ~~~~</nowiki></pre></td></tr><tr |- valign="top"><td>| [[The weather in London]] is a page that doesn't exist yet.*You can create it by clicking on the link.*To create a new page:*#Create a link to it on some other page.*#Save that page.*#Click on the link you just made. The new page will open for editing.

</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>[[The weather in London]] is a pagethat doesn't exist yet.</nowiki></pre></td></tr><tr |- valign="top"><td>| [[MediaWiki User's Guide: Using redirects|Redirect]] one article title to another by putting text like this in its first line.</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[United States]]</nowiki></pre></td></tr><tr |- valign="top"><td>| A link to the page on the same subject in another language or, more generally, to a page on another wiki:[[fr:Wikip�dia:Aide]]. For more info see [[MediaWiki User's Guide: Interwiki linking]].</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>[[fr:Wikip�dia:Aide]], [[:fr:Wikip�dia:Aide]]</nowiki></pre></td></tr>|-<tr><td>| "What links here" and "Related changes" can be linked as:<br/>[[Special:Whatlinkshere/Wikipedia:How to edit a page]] and[[Special:Recentchangeslinked/Wikipedia:How to edit a page]]</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>[[Special:Whatlinkshere/

Wikipedia:How to edit a page]]</nowiki></pre></td></tr><tr |- valign="top"><td>| External links: [http://www.nupedia.com Nupedia], [http://www.nupedia.com]</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>External links:

[http://www.nupedia.com]</nowiki></pre></td></tr><tr |- valign="top"><td>| Or just give the URL: http://www.nupedia.com.*In the [[enEn:URL|URL]] all symbols must be among: A-Z a-z 0-9 ._\/~%-+&amp;#?!=()@ \x80-\xFF. If a URL contains a different character it should be converted; for example, ^ has to be written &nbsp;%5E (to be looked up in [[enEn:ASCII|ASCII]]). A blank space can also be converted into an underscore.</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>Or just give the URL:http://www.nupedia.com.</nowiki></pre></td>|-</tr><tr><td>| To link to a bug in Mozilla's Bugzilla, use the <tt>bug</tt> template.{{bug|322603}}</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>{{bug|&#124;322603}}</nowiki></pre></td>|-</tr><tr><td>| To link to books, you can use [[enEn:ISBN|ISBN]] links.ISBN 0123456789X See [[Help:ISBN links]]</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>ISBN 0123456789X</nowiki></pre></td>|-</tr><tr><td>| Link to [[wW:Request for Comments|Request for Comments]]: RFC 123 (URL specified in [[mediawikiMediaWiki:Rfcurl]])</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>RFC 123</nowiki></pre></td>|-</tr><tr><td>| To include links to non-image uploads such as sounds, use a "media" link.<br/>[[mediaMedia:Sg_mrob.ogg|Sound]]</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>

</nowiki></pre></td></tr><tr |- valign="top>"<td>| Use links for dates, so everyone can set their own display order. Use [[Special:Preferences]] to change your own date display setting.</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>[[July 20]], [[1969]] , [[20 July]] [[1969]]

</nowiki></pre>will all appear as [[20 July]] [[1969]] if you set your date display preference to 1 January 2001.</td></tr></table>|}

=== Images === {| cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="1"|-! What it looks like! What you type|- valign="top"| A picture: [[Image:Wiki.png|Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia]] *For many projects, only images that have been uploaded to the same project can be used. To upload images, use the [[Special:Upload|upload page]]. You can find the uploaded image on the [[Special:Imagelist|image list]] | <pre>A picture: [[Image:Wiki.png]]</pre> or, with alternate text (''strongly'' encouraged) <!-- actually required in HTML4 --> <pre>[[Image:Wiki.png&#124;Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia]] </pre> [[En:Web browser|Web browsers]] render alternate text when not displaying an image -- for example, when the image isn't loaded, or in a text-only browser, or when spoken aloud. See [[En:Wikipedia:Alternate text for images|Alternate text for images]] for help on choosing alternate text. See [[En:Wikipedia:Extended image syntax|Extended image syntax]] for more options.  |-| Clicking on an uploaded image displays a description page, which you can also link directly to: [[:Image:Wiki.png]]

<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tr><th>What it looks like</th><th>What you type</th></tr><tr valign="top"><td>A picture: [[Image:Wiki.png|Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia]]* For many projects, only images that have been uploaded to the same project can be used. To upload images, use the [[Special:Upload|upload page]]. You can find the uploaded image on the [[Special:Imagelist|image list]]</td><td><pre><nowiki>A picture: [[Image:Wiki.png]]</nowiki></pre>or, with alternate text (''strongly'' encouraged) <!-- actually required in HTML4 --><pre><nowiki>[[Image:Wiki.png|Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia]] </nowiki></pre>[[en:Web browser|Web browser]]s render alternate text when not displaying an image -- for example, when the image isn't loaded, or in a text-only browser, or when spoken aloud. See [[en:Wikipedia:Alternate text for images|Alternate text for To include links to images]] for help shown as links instead of drawn on choosing alternate text. See [[en:Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax|Extended image syntax]] for more options.</td></tr><tr><td>Clicking on an uploaded image displays a description the page, which you can also use a "media" link directly to: [[:Image:Wiki.png]]</td><td><pre><nowikibr>[[Media:Tornado.jpg|Image:Wiki.pngof a Tornado]]</nowiki></pre></td></tr>

<tr><td>To include links to images shown as links instead of drawn on the page, use a "media" link.<br/>[[media:Tornado.jpg|Image of a Tornado]]</td><td><pre><nowiki>

</nowiki></pre></td></tr>|}

{| cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border= Character formatting =="1"|-! What it looks like! What you type|- valign="top"| ''Emphasize'', '''strongly''', '''''very strongly'''''.

</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>''Emphasize'', '''strongly''','''''very strongly'''''.</nowiki></pre></td></tr><tr |- valign="top"><td>| You can also write <i>''italic</i> '' and <b>'''bold</b>''' if the desired effect is a specific font stylerather than emphasis, as in mathematical formulae: :<b>'''F</b> ''' = <i>''m</i><b>'''''a</b>''' 

</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>You can also write <&lt;i>&gt;italic<&lt;/i>&gt;and <&lt;b>&gt;bold<&lt;/b> &gt; if the desired effect is a

:<&lt;b>&gt;F<&lt;/b> &gt; = <&lt;i>&gt;m<&lt;/i><&gt;&lt;b>&gt;a<&lt;/b></nowiki>&gt;</pre><!-- that's not a mathematical formula, though - sure it is, just because it's being applied to physics doesn't make it stop being mathematics --></td></tr><tr |- valign="top"><td>| A typewriter font for <tt>technical terms</tt>.</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>A typewriter font for <&lt;tt>&gt;technical terms<&lt;/tt>&gt;.</nowiki></pre></td><!-- tt is really 'teletype', not 'technical term' |--></tr><tr valign="top"><td>| You can use <small>small text</small> for captions.</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>You can use <&lt;small>&gt;small text<&lt;/small> &gt; for captions.</nowiki></pre></td></tr><tr |- valign="top"><td>| You can <strike>strike out deleted material</strike>and <u>underline new material</u>.</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>You can <&lt;strike>&gt;strike out deleted material<&lt;/strike>&gt;and <&lt;u>&gt;underline new material<&lt;/u>&gt;.</nowiki></pre></td></tr><tr |- valign="top"><td>| '''Umlauts and accents:''' (See [[MediaWiki User's Guide: Creating special characters]])<br/>è é ê ë ì í<br/><br/>&Agrave; &Aacute; &Acirc; &Atilde; &Auml; &Aring; À Á Â Ã Ä Å <br/>&AElig; &Ccedil; &Egrave; &Eacute; &Ecirc; &Euml; Æ Ç È É Ê Ë <br/>&Igrave; &Iacute;&Icirc; &Iuml; &Ntilde; &Ograve; Ì Í Î Ï Ñ Ò <br/>&Oacute; &Ocirc; &Otilde;&Ouml; &Oslash; &Ugrave; Ó Ô Õ Ö Ø Ù <br/>&Uacute; &Ucirc; &Uuml; &szlig;&agrave; &aacute; Ú Û Ü ß à á <br/>&acirc; &atilde; &auml; &aring; &aelig;&ccedil; â ã ä å æ ç <br/>&egrave; &eacute; &ecirc; &euml; &igrave; &iacute;è é ê ë ì í<br/>&icirc; &iuml; &ntilde; &ograve; &oacute; &ocirc; î ï ñ ò ó ô <br/>&oelig; &otilde;&ouml; &oslash; &ugrave; &uacute; œ õ ö ø ù ú <br/>&ucirc; &uuml; &yuml;</td><td><pre><nowiki>û ü ÿ

&amp;ucirc; &amp;uuml; &amp;yuml;</nowiki></pre></td></tr><tr |- valign="top"><td>| '''Punctuation:'''<br/>&iquest; &iexcl; &laquo; &raquo; &sect; &para;¿ ¡ « » § ¶<br/>† ‡ • — &dagger; &Dagger; &bull; &mdash;</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>&amp;iquest; &amp;iexcl; &amp;laquo; &amp;raquo; &amp;sect; &amp;para;&amp;dagger; &amp;Dagger; &amp;bull; &amp;mdash;</nowiki></pre></td></tr><tr |- valign="top"><td>| '''Commercial symbols:'''<br/>&trade; &copy; &reg; &cent; &euro; &yen; ™ © ® ¢ € ¥ <br/>&pound; &curren;</td>£ ¤<td>| <pre><nowiki>&amp;trade; &amp;copy; &amp;reg; &amp;cent; &amp;euro; &amp;yen;

</nowiki></pre></td></tr><tr |- valign="top" id="subscript"><td>| Subscript: x₂<br/>Superscript: x² or x&sup2;x²

&epsilon;ε₀ =8.85 &times; × 10^{&minus;12−12}C&sup2; C² / J m.<br/><br/>1 [[hectareHectare]] = [[1 E4 m²]]</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>Subscript: x<&lt;sub>&gt;2<&lt;/sub>&gt;Superscript: x<&lt;sup>&gt;2<&lt;/sup> &gt; or x&amp;sup2;

Subscript: x{{sub|&#124;2}}Superscript: x{{sup|&#124;2}}

&amp;epsilon;<&lt;sub>&gt;0<&lt;/sub> &gt; =8.85 &amp;times; 10<&lt;sup>&gt;&amp;minus;12<&lt;/sup>&gt;

</nowiki></pre></td></tr><tr |- valign="top"><td>| '''Greek characters:''' <br/>&alpha; &beta; &gamma; &delta; &epsilon; &zeta; α β γ δ ε ζ <br/>&eta; &theta; &iota; &kappa; &lambda; &mu; &nu; η θ ι κ λ μ ν <br/>&xi; &omicron; &pi; &rho; &sigma; &sigmaf; ξ ο π ρ σ ς <br/>&tau; &upsilon; &phi; &chi; &psi; &omega;τ υ φ χ ψ ω<br/>&Gamma; &Delta; &Theta; &Lambda; &Xi; &Pi; Γ Δ Θ Λ Ξ Π <br/>Σ Φ Ψ Ω &Sigma; &Phi; &Psi; &Omega;</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>&amp;alpha; &amp;beta; &amp;gamma; &amp;delta; &amp;epsilon; &amp;zeta;

</nowiki></pre></td></tr><tr |- valign="top"><td>| '''Math characters:''' <br/>&int; &sum; &prod; &radic; &minus; &plusmn; &infin;∫ ∑ ∏ √ − ± ∞<br/>&asymp; &prop; &equiv; &ne; &le; &ge; &rarr;≈ ∝ ≡ ≠ ≤ ≥ →<br/>&times; &middot; &divide; &part; &prime; &Prime;× · ÷ ∂ ′ ″<br/>&nabla; &permil; &deg; &there4; &alefsym; &oslash;∇ ‰ ° ∴ ℵ ø<br/>&isin; &notin; &cap; &cup; &sub; &sup; &sube; &supe;∈ ∉ ∩ ∪ ⊂ ⊃ ⊆ ⊇<br/>&not; &and; &or; &exist; &forall; &rArr; &hArr;¬ ∧ ∨ ∃ ∀ ⇒ ⇔<br/>&rarr; &harr;→ ↔<br/></td><td | valign="middle">| <pre><nowiki>&amp;int; &amp;sum; &amp;prod; &amp;radic; &amp;minus; &amp;plusmn; &amp;infin;

&amp;rarr; &amp;harr;</nowiki></pre></td></tr><tr |- valign="top"><td><i>| ''x</i>''²&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&ge;≥&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;0 true.*To space things out, use non-breaking spaces - <tt>&amp;nbsp;</tt>.

arrow | <pre>&lt;i&gt;x&lt;/i&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;ge;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;0 true.</pre>|-| '''Complicated formulae:'''<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;<math>\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{x^n}{n!}</math>  *See [[MediaWiki User's Guide: Editing mathematical formulae:TeX markup|TeX markup]] | <pre>&lt;math&gt;\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{x^n}{n!}&lt;/math&rarrgt;</pre> |-| '''For comparison for the following examples:'''  arrow →  ''italics'' [[Link]]

''italics''[[link]]</td><td | valign="bottom">| <pre><nowiki>arrow &amp;rarr;

[[link]]</nowiki></pre></td></tr>|-<tr><td>| '''Use &lt;nowiki> &gt; to suppress interpretation of wiki markup, but interpret character references and remove newlines and multiple spaces:'''

</nowiki></td><td | valign="bottom">| <pre><&lt;nowiki><nowiki>&gt;arrow &amp;rarr;

[[link]]<&lt;/nowiki></nowiki>&gt;</pre></td>|-</tr><tr><td>| '''Use &lt;pre> &gt; to suppress interpretation of wiki markup and keep newlines and multiple spaces, and get typewriter font, but interpret character references:''' <pre>arrow &rarr;→

</pre></td><td | valign="bottom">| <!-- <pre> or <nowiki> inside <pre> breaks the renderer --><pre>&lt;pre>&gt;arrow &amp;rarr;

[[link]]&lt;/pre>&gt;</pre></td>|-</tr><tr><td>| '''Use leading space on each line to keep newlines and multiple spaces, and get typewriter font:'''   arrow &rarr;→

[[linkLink]]</td><td | valign="bottom">| <pre> arrow &amp;rarr;

[[link]]</pre></td>|-</tr><tr><td>| '''Use typewriter font:'''

<tt>arrow &rarr;→</tt>

<tt>''italics''</tt><tt>[[linkLink]]</tt>

</td><td | valign="bottom">| <pre><&lt;tt>&gt;arrow &amp;rarr;<&lt;/tt>&gt;

<&lt;tt>&gt;''italics''<&lt;/tt>&gt;<&lt;tt>&gt;[[link]]<&lt;/tt>&gt;</pre></td></tr><tr>|-<td>| '''Show character references:'''

&amp;rarr;</td><td | valign="bottom">| <pre>&amp;amp;rarr;</pre></td></tr><tr>|-<td>| '''Commenting page source:'''<br/>''not shown in page'' * Used to leave comments in a page for future editors.</td><td>| <pre>&lt;!-- comment here --&gt;</pre></td></tr></table>|}

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