Guide to Wikitext Markup Language (wiki code)

Wikitext or Wikitext Markup Language is the code that simplifies creating pages on wiki sites.

Quick guide

 * Howto use wikitext (quick cheat sheet)

Some of the most common syntaxes in wikitext are:

Linking

 * Internal Linking
 * Simple
 * Code: Main Page
 * Result: Main Page
 * Link to Main Page but display Home:
 * Code: Home
 * Result: Home
 * Linking to a wikipedia page:
 * Code: Dog
 * Result: Dog
 * Linking to a wikipedia page without wikipedia displayed:
 * Code: Dog or Dog
 * Result: Dog
 * External Linking
 * Simple requires nothing extra:
 * Code: http://www.gnu.org/gnu
 * Result: http://www.gnu.org/gnu
 * Linking to the site but displaying alternate text:
 * Code: GNU
 * Result: GNU

Text Formating

 * Bold
 * Code: Bold Text
 * Result: Bold Text
 * Italic
 * Code: Italic Text
 * Result: Italic Text

Page Formating

 * line
 * Code:
 * Result: (the line below)

(the line above)

HTML-Wikitext
The following HTML tags also work as wikitext tags center , strike-through, newline , ,  ,

Other

 * Remove wikitext formating
 * Code:
 * Remove Table of contents
 * Code:
 * Add Comment
 * Code:

Wikipedia's Howtos
wikipedia has 92 howtos on wikitext. Its recommended you visit wikipedia:Category:Wikipedia how-to.