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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
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| applies anywhere
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| Italic text
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''italic''
| italic
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| Bold text
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'''bold'''
| bold
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| Bold and italic
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'''''bold & italic'''''
| bold & italic
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| Escape wiki markup
|
no ''markup''
no ''markup''
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| only at the beginning of the line
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Headings of
different sizes
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<tt>
==level 1==
===level 2===
====level 3====
=====level 4=====
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Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
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| Horizontal rule
|
----
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| Bullet list
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* one
* two
* three
** three and one-third
** three and two-thirds
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- one
- two
- three
- three and one-third
- three and two-thirds
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| Numbered list
|
# one
# two
<br> spanning several lines
<br> without breaking the numbering
# three
## three point one
## three point two
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- one
- two
spanning several lines
without breaking the numbering
- three
- three point one
- three point two
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Mixture of bulleted
and numbered lists
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# one
# two
#* two point one
#* two point two
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- one
- two
- two point one
- two point two
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| Definition list
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;Definition
:item 1
:item 2
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- Definition
- item 1
- item 2
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| Preformatted text
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preformatted text is done with
a space at the
beginning of the line
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preformatted text is done with
a space at the
beginning of the line
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Paragraphs
MediaWiki ignores normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can also start a new line with the HTML tag
<br /> .
HTML
Some HTML-Tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example
<code> ,
<div> ,
<span> and
<font> .
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Other formatting
Beyond the text formatting markup shown above, here are some other formatting references:
More Formatting from Wikipedia
