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Wikipedia Cheatsheet

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Description You type You get
Applies anywhere
Italicise text

''italic''

italic
Bold text

'''bold'''

bold
Bold and italic

'''''bold & italic'''''

bold & italic
Internal link
(within Wikipedia)

[[Name of page]]
[[Name of page|Text to display]]

Name of page
Text to display
External link
(to other websites)

[http://www.example.org Text to display]
[http://www.example.org]
http://www.example.org

Text to display
[1]
http://www.example.org
Redirect to another page

#REDIRECT [[Target page]]

Target page
Footnotes/References
Numbering is generated automatically.
To create a footnote or reference, use this format:

Article text.<ref name=test>[http://www.example.com Link text], additional text.</ref>

 Article text.[1]
To reuse the same note, reuse the name with a trailing slash:

Article text.<ref name=test/>
To display notes, add this line to the References section

<references/>
  1. ^ Link text, additional text.
For talkpages
Signature (for Talk Pages)

~~~~

Your username 19:24,
11 June 2008 (UTC)
Indenting Text
Applies only at the beginning of lines.

no indent (normal)
:first indent
::second indent
:::third indent

no indent (normal)

first indent
second indent
third indent
Applies only at the beginning of the line
Headings
A Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article.

== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4
Level 5
Bulleted list
Empty lines between list items discouraged, (see numbered lists).

* One
* Two
** Two point one
* Three
  • One
  • Two
    • Two point one
  • Three
Numbered list
Empty lines between list items restarts numbering at 1.

# One
# Two
## Two point one
# Three

# One (again)
  1. One
  2. Two
    1. Two point one
  3. Three
  1. One (again)
Images
Thumbnail image

[[Image:Wiki.png|thumb|Caption text]]
Caption text
Caption text

See also