Mediawiki syntax codes (was 'the 12 days of wiki')

[Kent McLean]

cody at 5000tq.com wrote:
> Really, honestly, theres no giberish to it. The only codes involved  
> that you need are some equals signs to crate headings. Beyond that if  
> you need italic or bold text you need some symbols, but it's all  
> pretty damned easy.

What he said. I don't know of a Mediawiki editor to simplify things.
Googling didn't turn up much. 

When you click on the "Edit" button of a Mediawiki page, it puts you
into a simple text editor. Then you need just a few "gibbers" to produce
the gibberish. For example:

= Section 1 =			1 equal sign at each end
== Section 1.1 ==		2 equal signs
=== Section 1.1.1 ===		3 equal signs
== Section 2 ==			Mediawiki automatically generates 
				a table of contents from these

# numbered list item 1		pound (hash) sign, 
# item 2			with no blank lines between

* bulleted list			an asterisk,
* bulleted list			with no blank lines

''italics''			two single quotes at each end

'''bold'''			tripled single quotes at each end
				(4 single quotes gets you bold italics)	

[[Category:General repair]]	 put at the bottom of the page; it
				adds the page to the Categories page, 
				so you can find it later

Advanced usage: to get nested bullets inside a numbered list, do this:

# first numbered list item
#* bullet 1
#* bullet 2
# 2nd numbered list item

HTH.

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