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 wikitext:

Basic styles

Markup	Renders as
'''Bold text'''	Bold text
''Italic text''	Italic text
'''''Bold and italic text'''''	Bold and italic text
<s>Strikethrough</s>	~~Strikethrough~~
<code>Code (monospaced)</code>	`Code (monospaced)`

Lists

Numbered list

Markup	Renders as
#Rabbitz #Gets #More #Awesome ##The ###More ####This ###List ##Goes #On	Rabbitz Gets More Awesome The More This List Goes On

Bulleted list

Markup	Renders as
Rabbitz Gets More Awesome The More *This List Goes On	Rabbitz Gets More Awesome The More This List Goes On

Term and definition list

Markup	Renders as
; Rabbitz (Term) : Awesome (Definition)	Rabbitz (Term) Awesome (Definition)
; Rabbitz (Term) : Awesome (Definition) : Awesomer (Definition) : Awesomest (Definition)	Rabbitz (Term) Awesome (Definition) Awesomer (Definition) Awesomest (Definition)

Font color

Text color

Markup	Renders as
{{font color\|red\|Rabbitz is very awesome}}	Rabbitz is very awesome
{{font color\|#e38690\|Rabbitz is very awesome}}	Rabbitz is very awesome

Text Color + Background Color

Markup	Renders as
{{font color\|red\|tan\|Rabbitz is very awesome}}	Rabbitz is very awesome
{{font color\|#e38690\|tan\|Rabbitz is very awesome}}	Rabbitz is very awesome
{{font color\|tan\|#e38690\|Rabbitz is very awesome}}	Rabbitz is very awesome
{{font color\|#c6cccc\|#e38690\|Rabbitz is very awesome}}	Rabbitz is very awesome

Font

Markup	Renders as
{{font\|Rabbitz is very awesome\|font=Georgia}}	Rabbitz is very awesome

Superscript and subscript

Markup	Renders as
Rabbitz is very <sup>awesome</sup>	Rabbitz is very ^awesome
Rabbitz is <sub>awesome</sub>	Rabbitz is _awesome

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.

Markup	Renders as
= Heading 1 = == Heading 2 == === Heading 3 === ==== Heading 4 ==== ===== Heading 5 ===== ====== Heading 6 ======	Heading 1 Heading 2 Heading 3 Heading 4 Heading 5 Heading 6

Newlines

Single newlines are ignored. To produce a new line in the article, you need to enter two newline characters in wikitext:

Markup	Renders as
This is a new line	This is a new line
This is not a new line	This is not a new line

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 . For example: 

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 use the {{Void}} template, which can be abbreviated as {{^}}.

Links

Wikilinks

To link to another article, surround the name of the article in two square brackets. You can also change the text displayed.

Markup	Renders as
[[the South Pacific]]	the South Pacific
[[the South Pacific\|TSP]]	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.

External links

To link to a page outside of the wiki, use single square brackets. The text to be displayed is separated from the URL by a space.

Markup	Renders as
[https://tspforums.xyz TSP Forums]	TSP Forums

If you are creating an external link to NationStates, you may find it more convenient to use the templates {{Nation}} for nation links or {{Region}} for region links. (You can click on the name of the template to view its documentation page, which explains how to use it.)

Wikipedia links

To link to a Wikipedia page, you can add the prefix Wikipedia: before the link:

Markup	Renders as
[[wikipedia:NationStates]]	wikipedia:NationStates
[[wikipedia:NationStates\|NationStates]]	NationStates

Images

The basic markup for inserting an image is [[File:Example.jpg|thumb|Caption text]]. Other ways include:

Markup	Renders as
[[File:Example.jpg\|thumb\|Caption text\|alt=alternative text]]	Caption text
[[File:Example.jpg\|50 px]]
[[:File:Example.jpg]]	File:Example.jpg

Alternative text should contain a textual description of the image. It is used when the image is unavailable, loaded in a text-only browser, or spoken aloud. This is very helpful for making the webpage more accessible.
All images from Wikimedia Commons are already available. To use other images, you'll need to upload them. Please make sure you have the rights to use the image.
A more complete list of less common ways to display images can be found here.