Community Central:Guide:Wikitext

When editing, leaving comments or posting on wikis you'll need to know the basics of wikitext. It's true we have our awesome editor that helps with editing, but there are times where you'll need to edit using wiki text. Such situations can occur when leaving comments on blogs or article pages or when a page is only editable in source mode.

Wikipedia defines wiki text or wiki markup as a lightweight markup language used to write pages in wiki websites. It is a simplified alternative/intermediate to HTML. Its ultimate purpose is to be converted by wiki software into HTML, which in turn is served to web browsers.^[1]

Below you'll find a cheat sheet to help you learn wiki text. It's a brief synopsis of wiki text but it's what you'll need to get started editing.

We cover the basics in text editing, formatting and hyperlinking. Once you get going on your wiki a lot of this stuff will come naturally over time — but until then you've got this for reference.

Description	Wikitext	Result
Text editing:
Italic Text	''italic''	italic
Bold	'''bold'''	bold
Bold & Italic	'''''bold & italic'''''	bold & italic
Formating:
Heading options	=Heading 1= ==Heading 2== ===Heading 3=== ==== Level 4 ==== ===== Level 5 ===== ====== Level 6 ======	Heading 1 Heading 2 Heading 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6
Numbered list	# Numbered List # next line # next line # next line	Numbered List next line next line next line
Bulleted list	* Bullet List * next line * another * one more ** sub-bullet *** sub-sub-bullet	Bullet List next line another one more sub-bullet sub-sub-bullet
Indenting	:Single indent ::Double indent :::Triple indent	Single indent Double indent Triple indent
Numbering & bullets	# Numbering & bullets # One with sub-bullets #* sub-bullet one #* sub-bullet two #*: an indented note for sub-bullet two #* Sub-bullet with numerlines #*# a line #*# another #*# and another #*#: an indented note #*#:* a bullet for the note #*#:* another #*#:*; a bold note #* back down to sub-bullets # back down to numbered list	Numbering & bullets One with sub-bullets sub-bullet one sub-bullet two an indented note for sub-bullet two Sub-bullet with numberlines a line another and another an indented note a bullet for the note another a bold note back down to sub-bullets back down to numbered list
Horizontal line	----
Hyperlink:
Internal wiki page link	[[link]]	link
Internal piped link (displays text)	[[link|displayed text]]	displayed text
External link	http://www.external.link.org	http://www.external.link.org
External link number	[http://www.external.link.org]	[1]
External link displays text	[http://www.external.link.org another name]	another name
Category link	[[:Category:Links]]	Category:Links