Help:Wikitext
The following guide serves as a guide to Wiki-text hosted on this wiki. If you'd like a general guide to editing pages, you can view the MediaWiki guide to editing pages here. A wikitext cheatsheet is available here.
Formatting Text
These are the basics of Wiki-text; the fundamentals of which every editors needs to know:
Strike Through
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<s>Rabbitz is very awesome</s>
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Bold
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'''Rabbitz is very awesome'''
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Rabbitz is very awesome |
Italics
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''Rabbitz is very awesome''
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Rabbitz is very awesome |
Bold and Italicized
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'''''Rabbitz is very awesome'''''
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Rabbitz is very awesome |
Lists
Numbered List
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#Rabbitz #Gets #More #Awesome ##The ###More ####This ###List ##Goes #On |
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Bulleted List
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*Rabbitz *Gets *More *Awesome **The ***More ****This ***List **Goes *On |
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Term and Definition List
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; Rabbitz (Term) : Awesome (Definition) |
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; Rabbitz (Term) : Awesome (Definition) : Awesomer (Definition) : Awesomest (Definition) |
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Font Color
Text Color
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{{Font color|red|Rabbitz is very awesome}}
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Rabbitz is very awesome |
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Rabbitz is very awesome |
Text Color + Background Color
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{{Font color|red|tan|Rabbitz is very awesome}}
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Rabbitz is very awesome |
{{Font color|#e38690|tan|Rabbitz is very awesome}}
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Rabbitz is very awesome |
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Rabbitz is very awesome |
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Rabbitz is very awesome |
Font
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Rabbitz is very awesome |
Superscripts
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Rabbitz is very<sup>awesome</sup>
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Rabbitz isawesome |
Subscript
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Rabbitz is<sub>awesome</sub>
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Rabbitz is veryawesome |
Headings
Headings are surrounded with equal signs (=). Heading 1, with one equals sign, is used for article titles and should not be used within articles. A table of contents will be generated automatically if there are four or more headings.
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= Heading 1 = == Heading 2 == === Heading 3 === ==== Heading 4 ==== ===== Heading 5 ===== ====== Heading 6 ====== |
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Invisible text (comments)
Comments are notes that are visible in the wikitext editor, but not in the "rendered" article that is visible to readers.
This may be useful, for example, to alert other editors to common mistakes, or to hide a section of a work-in-progress article but keep your wikitext, so it won't be lost forever.
The hidden text should be surrounded with <!-- and -->. For example: <!-- this text will be hidden except in 'edit' mode -->
Comments can also cover multiple lines. For example:
<!-- This comment covers multiple lines -->
Nesting comments inside of each other can produce odd results. If you somehow find a need for that, you can also used the {{Void}} template, which can be abbreviated as {{^}}.
Links
To link to another article, surround the name of the article in two square brackets. For example, [[the South Pacific]] produces the South Pacific. You can also change the text displayed. For example, [[the South Pacific|TSP]] produces TSP.
If you are editing roleplay pages, you may commonly use this to hide the canon from article names. For Pacifica, you may find it more convenient to use the template {{Pacifica}}, which can be abbreviated as {{Pa}}. (You can click on the name of the template to view its documentation page, which explains how to use it.)
You can link to a section of a page with [[page name#section name]].
A red link indicates that the linked page does not exist yet.