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: [[Main Page|Home]]

    Result: Home

  • Linking to a wikipedia page:

    Code: [[Wikipedia:Dog]]

    Result: Wikipedia:Dog

  • Linking to a wikipedia page without wikipedia displayed:

    Code: [[Wikipedia:Dog|]] or [[Wikipedia:Dog|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: [http://www.gnu.org/gnu 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>center</center>, <s>strike-through</s>, newline <br \>, <pre></pre>, <div></div>, <!-- hidden comments -->

Other

• Remove wikitext formating

  Code: <nowiki></nowiki>

• Remove Table of contents

  Code: __NOTOC__

• Add Comment

  Code: <!-- comment -->

Wikipedia's Howtos

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