All you really need to know is:
- To edit a page click on the Edit link at the bottom of the page or click the edit icon at the top right of a paragraph. You should do that right now, and read the source code of this page. It will make more sense.
- You get italics by surrounding words with two single quotes on either side ''like this'' → like this
- You get __bold text__ → bold text by using two underscores on either side.
- And, __''bold italics''__ → bold italics by using both.
- You get bullets by using an asterisk * at the start of the line, use the number sign # for enumerations.
- To have plain monospaced font, indent with a space:
- You can separate paragraphs with an extra blank line. Example:
I am a paragraph. there are now 2 sentences in the paragraph.
I am a paragraph too. We're just very small paragraphs.
- To link to pages outside the Wiki, you can just type in the URL and Wiki will link it for you: [http://www.nytimes.com/] → http://www.nytimes.com/
This is the basics to edit existing articles. For more detailed information, you can also see TextFormattingRules.
Now you are ready to begin AddingPages, apart from editing the existing ones:
- To create hyperlinks you just capitalize the words and string them together. Let's say you want to create a page about how Steve Wainstead eats worms. All you have to do is capitalize each word, and string them together like this: SteveWainsteadEatsWorms?. (Words may be broken apart when displaying, depending on the system configuration). If the page does not exist yet, a question mark appears after the link, inviting you to create the page: ThisPageShouldNotExist?. (And please don't ruin the example by creating one.)
