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MediaWiki Formatting Cheatsheet

MediaWiki is software used for Wikipedia and many wiki projects that allows anyone to contribute or edit pages. This cheatsheet shows basic formatting for the wiki, including making text italic, bold, or both, creating different levels of headings, adding internal and external links, categories, lists, images, templates, signatures, redirects, and tables.

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MediaWiki Formatting Cheatsheet

MediaWiki is software used for Wikipedia and many wiki projects that allows anyone to contribute or edit pages. This cheatsheet shows basic formatting for the wiki, including making text italic, bold, or both, creating different levels of headings, adding internal and external links, categories, lists, images, templates, signatures, redirects, and tables.

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MediaWiki

Cheatsheet
MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia
and many other Wiki projects. Everyone can contribute to a Wiki. Simply
click on the link Edit this page on top of an article and start writing. This
cheatsheet shows the basic formatting tricks.
Wiki text

Result

''italic''

italic

'''bold'''

bold

'''''bold and italic'''''

bold and italic

==heading==
===level 2===
====level 3====
=====level 4=====

Headings in different sizes

[[Link to another page]]


[[Link|different title]]

Internal Link to another page


on the wiki

http://www.test.org
[http://www.test.org Text]

External link
Link with description

[[Category:Example]]

Add article to category example

----

horizontal line

* one
* two
* three

Bullet list

# one
# two
# three

Numbered list

[[Image:File.jpg|Text]]
[[Image:File.jpg|frame|Text]]
[[Image:File.jpg|thumb|Text]]

Image with alternative text


Image aligned right with caption
Thumbnail

[[Media:File.ogg]]

Download link

{{Name}}

Include template Name

--~~~

Signature (Link to userpage)

--~~~~

Signature with timestamp

#REDIRECT [[Other article]]

Redirect to another article

{|
!header1 !! header2
||row1 cell1 || cell2
||row2 cell1 || cell2
|}

Table with two columns, a header


row and two normal rows.

http://www.mediawiki.org
Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.wikimediafoundation.org [email protected]

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