Help:Editing

Basic formatting

• For more advanced formatting help see m:MediaWiki User's Guide: Editing overview.

Headings are placed between equals signs (=): = Heading 1 = == Heading 2 == === Heading 3 === ==== Heading 4 ====	Heading 1 Heading 2 Heading 3 Heading 4
For italics enclose in two single quotes (HTML tags like <i>...</i> work too, in general): ''italic words''	italic words
For bold enclose in three single quotes: '''bold words'''	bold words
For bold italics enclose in five single quotes: '''''bold italic words'''''	bold italic words
Text can be made bigger or smaller by using the <big>...</big> and <small>...</small> tags. Make this <big>bigger</big> or <small>smaller</small>.	Make this bigger or smaller.
For monospaced text, use the forms <tt> and </tt> <tt>monospaced text</tt>	monospaced text
Another way to create a monospace font is to add a space in from of the text on any one line. _More monospaced text	More monospaced text
Text can be centred by using the <center>...</center> tag: <center>Center this text</center>	Center this text
Typing on the next line has no effect. However, by inserting a blank line you start a new paragraph. <br>To start writing on a line line without starting a new paragraph use the <nowiki><br></nowiki> tag.	Typing on the next line has no effect. However, by inserting a blank line you start a new paragraph. To start writing on a line line without starting a new paragraph use the <br> tag.
For bulleted lists, add an asterisk (*) at the beginning of each line: *Bullet one *Bullet two *Bullet three	Bullet one Bullet two Bullet three
To add multiple layers to a bulleted list, you can increase the amount of asterisks: *Bullet one **Bullet two **Bullet two, sub one ***Bullet two, sub one, something **Bullet two, sub two *Bullet three	Bullet one Bullet two Bullet two, sub one Bullet two, sub one, something Bullet two, sub two Bullet three
For a numbered list, add a hash (#) at the beginning of each line: #Item one #Item two #Item three ##Item three, sub one ##Item three, sub two	Item one Item two Item three Item three, sub one Item three, sub two
Likewise, a colon (:) causes indentation: :Item one :Item two :Item three  ::Item three, sub one  ::Item three, sub two	Item one Item two Item three Item three, sub one Item three, sub two
To make a link within the wiki (or to certain other wikis such as Wikipedia), enclose it in double quotes. Use a pipe to link to a different page than what is displayed. * [[Brithenig]] * [[User:Muke]] * [[User:Muke|Muke]] * [[Wikipedia:Brithenig]]	Brithenig User:Muke Muke Wikipedia:Brithenig (Red links are to nonexistent pages, blue links are to pages on other wikis.)
To have an external link to a website automatically numbered, enclose it in single quotes. To title a link instead, add the title after a space (do NOT use the pipe symbol in this case, as it will break the link). * http://www.google.com * [http://www.google.com] * [http://www.google.com Google]	http://www.google.com [1] Google
To insert an image, type an internal link to the image using the "File:" namespace prefix and specify the width by typing the pipe symbol "|" and then a number followed by the suffix "px". [[File:Russie-snor.PNG|216px]]
Another tag is <nowiki> ... </nowiki>. This counteracts the aforesaid formatting rules, in order to allow the previous things to be typed. <nowiki>The <nowiki> tag is '''very''' useful.</nowiki>	The <nowiki> tag is '''very''' useful.
You can insert a horizontal line by typing four dashes: ----

Interwiki links

You can make links to other wikis just like you make links to pages on this wiki. To make a link to another wiki, prefix the destination with the Wiki's keyword and a colon (:).

Useful prefixes

• Link to Wikipedia with the prefix Wikipedia: (example: Wikipedia:Brithenig)
• Link to FrathWiki with the prefix FrathWiki: (example: FrathWiki:Ibran)
• Link to AltHist wiki with the prefix AltHist: (example: AltHist:United States of America (Rebellion of 61))

(To suggest a new wiki to link to, contact Muke.)

Tables

Here's some basics. In fact, the possibilities for far more advanced table formatting are numerous. See therefore: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table.

Table formatting:

• {| begins a table
• |} ends it.
• Standard cells begin with |
• heading cells with !
• format options go at the beginning of the cell, separated by |
• |- starts a new row

Example table:

 
  {| border=1
  ! heading cell
  |align=center| centered entry
  | third column
  |-
  ! second row heading
  | entry two, noncentered
  | third column, second row
  |}
  

It looks like this:

heading cell	centered entry	third column
second row heading	entry two, noncentered	third column, second row

The wiki format can also be entered with a whole row at once, allowing for example easy interlinears:

 
  {| 
  ! nemšé || javmb || morjé-'f
  |-
  | part  || deep  || sea-GEN
  |}
  

displaying:

nemšé	javmb	morjé-'f
part	deep	sea-GEN

The double pipes || delimit cells or headings (whether it will be one or the other inherits from the first cell on the line; start a new line to change types).