Wikitext or Wikitext Markup Language is the code that simplifies creating pages on wiki sites.
Quick guide
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
- Simple
- 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
- Simple requires nothing extra:
Text Formating
- Bold
- Code: '''Bold Text'''
- Result: Bold Text
- Italic==This is a section==
- Code: ''Italic Text''
- Result: Italic Text
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Page Formating
- line
- Code: ----
- Result: (the line below)
Helo
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 recomended you visit wikipedia:Category:Wikipedia how-to.