Quick Guide to Wiki Formating

From Battleground Europe Wiki

Formating Stuff in the Wiki Editor:

Here's an external link to the MediaWiki site that discusses these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page

A lot of basic HTML code will work.

You can test formating and such in the Sandbox

Also, if you ever want to copy some formatting style you see on a wiki page, click Edit and examine the contents of the edit window.

Here are a few common ones:

==Foo==  Equal signs create sections
The number of = is what type of section:
==2== makes a New Section
===3=== makes a Subsection
====4==== makes a Sub-Subsection

These are automatically added to the Table of Contents which appears at
the top of pages with sections (by the default settings).

Lists can be created with stars/asterisks.  
The number of stars indicates the depth of the list/sublist:
* The Leftmost
** One step right
*** Two steps right

Numbered lists work the same way but you use the # (pound) symbol.

You don't need to use <p> to separate paragraphs, but <br> still works to break lines.

A colon (:) at the beginning indents a new line or paragraph.

When adding a comment to a Talk page, you should sign it by adding
three tildes to add your user name:
: ~~~
or four for user name plus date/time:
: ~~~~
Five tildes gives the date/time alone:
: ~~~~~

Note: I've used "pre" html function to show you the characters to enter.
Otherwise, those characters would have functioned.  This command is useful
if you need to display code or things like that.

There are a lot of things you do with this. Go through the Wikimedia page linked above and check it out. I'm sure that once you get the hang of just a couple of things, you'll see how useful it can be.