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

[Grant Lenahan]

good crib sheet.
Thnx again
Grant
On Dec 21, 2007, at 5:33 AM, Kent McLean wrote:

> 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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> Kent McLean
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