Help:Me
This wiki is powered by "MediaWiki" - like Wikipedia, and also like the Mozilla intranet. MediaWiki uses a simple form of markup to enrich plain text. This is a cheat sheet; the standard editing help page is... comprehensive. Lots of trees, hard to see the wood. If you bookmark this page, then whenever you need it, just type "Help Me" into your Awesomebar.
If you have text already marked up with HTML, much of it will Just Work. Paste it in to the Edit box, press "Show preview", and see how it looks. (Sadly, links don't work - you have to use the syntax below.) You can mix HTML and MediaWiki markup in the same page.
Type things from the left into the page editing box of the page you are editing, and the result will be what you see on the right.
| ==Heading== |
Heading |
| ===Smaller heading (more 'equals' signs; use up to 5)=== |
Smaller heading (more 'equals' signs; use up to 5) |
| Separate your paragraphs with a blank line, just like in plain text.<br> Explicit line breaks are also possible, e.g. for poetry, like this: <br> |
Separate your paragraphs with a blank line, just like in plain text. Explicit line breaks are also possible, e.g. for poetry, like this: |
| * Bulleted list - start with a * ** Sub-bulleted list - multiple *s |
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| # Numbered list - start with a #
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A blank line finishes a list. |
| [[Help:Editing|Links within the wiki]] - two square brackets on either side, optional link text separated from page name by a | (pipe). | Links within the wiki - two square brackets on either side, optional link text separated from page name by a | (pipe). |
| [http://www.mozilla.org/ Links to other sites] - one square bracket and a space separator for the link text. You will get these two forms mixed up. :-| | Links to other sites - one square bracket and a space separator for the link text. You will get these two forms mixed up. :-| |
| Start a line with whitespace to have it rendered like this - good for quotations, code etc. |
Start a line with whitespace to have it rendered like this - good for quotations, code etc. |
| '''Three single quotes for bold'''. ''Two for italics''. | Three single quotes for bold. Two for italics. |
| "Templates" use two curly brackets to include standard snippets of text by name. E.g. {{bug|123456}} links to a bug. See below for a handy list. | "Templates" use two curly brackets to include standard snippets of text. E.g. bug 123456 links to a bug. See below for a handy list. |
Useful Templates
| {{draft}} - worth putting on all unfinished pages, for clarity |
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