Quickstart guide/Basic wiki text/

You can download a copy of Wikipedia's Cheatsheet.pdf for a summary of basic wiki text.

Summary of wiki text
{| style="border:1px solid #B8C7D9; text-align:left; background:#f5faff; font-size: 95%;"  italic  italic  bold  bold  bold & italic  bold & italic
 * width="25%" style="background: #cedff2; padding: 3px 5px; text-align:center;"|Description
 * style="background: #cedff2; padding: 3px 5px; text-align:center;"|You type
 * width="25%" style="background: #cedff2; padding: 3px 5px; text-align:center;"|You get
 * colspan="3" style="background: #cedff2; padding: 3px 5px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; text-align:center;" | Applies anywhere
 * Italicise text
 * colspan="3" style="background: #cedff2; padding: 3px 5px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; text-align:center;" | Applies anywhere
 * Italicise text
 * Italicise text
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cedff2;"|
 * Bold text
 * Bold text
 * Bold text
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cedff2;"|
 * Bold and italic
 * Bold and italic
 * Bold and italic
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cedff2;"|
 * Internal link
 * Internal link
 * Internal link

(within Wikipedia)  name of page 

 display text 

name of page

display text

 #redirect Target page  1. redirect Target page
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cedff2;"|
 * Redirect
 * Redirect
 * Redirect
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cedff2;"|
 * External link
 * External link
 * External link

(to other websites)  

 display text 

 http://www.example.com </tt> 

display text

http://www.example.com  with markup </tt>
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cedff2;"|
 * Escape wiki markup
 * Escape wiki markup
 * Escape wiki markup

 without markup  </tt> with markup

without markup
 * colspan="3" style="background: #cedff2; padding: 3px 5px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; text-align:center;" | Applies only at the beginning of the line
 * Headings
 * Headings
 * Headings

of different sizes  ==level 1== </tt>

 ===level 2=== </tt>

 ====level 3==== </tt>

 =====level 4===== </tt>

Level 4
&#42; one</tt>
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cedff2;"|
 * Bullet list
 * Bullet list
 * Bullet list

&#42; two</tt>

&#42;&#42; two point one</tt>

&#42; three</tt> &#35; one</tt>
 * one
 * two
 * two point one
 * three
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cedff2;"|
 * Numbered list
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cedff2;"|
 * Numbered list
 * Numbered list

&#35; two</tt>

&#35;&#35; two point one</tt>

&#35; three</tt> &#59;Definition</tt>
 * 1) one
 * 2) two
 * 3) two point one
 * 4) three
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cedff2;"|
 * Definition list
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cedff2;"|
 * Definition list
 * Definition list

<tt>&#58;item 1</tt>

<tt>&#58;item 2</tt>
 * Definition
 * item 1
 * item 2
 * item 2


 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cedff2;"|
 * Thumbnail image
 * Thumbnail image
 * Thumbnail image
 * }